BBQ Chicken Wings in Sweet and Sour Sauce on a BBQ Plank

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Chicken Wings in Sweet and Sour BBQ Sauce on a BBQ Plank

 

Cooking on wood is great for making your food moist and tender but another great reason is that the wood puts a natural barrier between your food and the grill so it is really hard to burn your food or for food to fall through the gaps or for flare ups.

 

As one of our customer's said " cooking on wood makes a BBQ God out of any man'  (or woman!), simply because it makes BBQing so easy and you don't burn your food.

 

Chicken Wings are a great example of this, they can so easily get burned on a BBQ, the skin gets stuck to the grill, the sauce gets all over the grill (not fun to clean) and so on.  So, please enjoy our no hassle and great tasting Chicken Wing recipe .

 

Any of the woods can be used for this recipe, but my favourite is Beech as it adds a sweet beechy flavour. Just be careful of the Cedar BBQ Plank as the strong spicy sweet flavour is not to everyone's taste.

 

 

Ingredients
1 kilo chicken wings 1 cup The Roasting Plank Sweet and Sour Sauce     serves 4

1. Place your chicken wings in a large bowl and toss them with The Roasting Plank Sweet and Sour Sauce. Leave to marinate for a couple of hours or overnight in the fridge if you want.

 

2. Preheat your BBQ to a medium heat and put your chicken wings, evenly spaced, onto your pre-soaked BBQ Plank and put onto the grill. BBQ for about 20-25 minutes or until they are fully cooked.

 

Enjoy you moist, tender and sweet and sour Chicken Wings but don't forget the paper towels....they will be sticky.

 

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Each BBQ is different and have different cooking times and temperatures, check your manufacturer's instructions for cooking guidelines.

BBQ Stuffed Mushrooms Steamed on BBQ Plank

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Stuffed Mushrooms Steamed on a BBQ Plank

Cooking mushrooms steamed on wood is simply, in my opinion, the best way to eat mushrooms. They absorb the moisture from the wood incredible well, as well as the different flavours of the wood, to make them very moist, tender and tasty but not mushy or slimy.

Even cooking mushrooms simply ( BBQ or in the oven) with a drizzle of olive oil and some salt and pepper, you can enjoy the amazing flavour and texture of mushrooms. I am really looking forward to trying lots of different mushrooms, with their differing flavours and textures, on wood. I'll keep you posted.

Any of the woods can be used for cooking mushrooms such as Oak, Beech and Cherry but, as always, take care with the Cedar because it is very sweet and spicy and the flavour can be too over powering for some. Just a matter of taste.

Ingredients

2 large plate mushrooms, stems removed 3 finely chopped spring onions 1/2 medium sized onion, finely chopped 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped 1 tsp chopped rosemary 1 tsp chopped parsley 1 slice of white or brown bread, crumbed 1 tbsp Parmesan cheese 1 tbsp mayonnaise 1 tbsp grated strong cheddar cheese 1 tbsp cream cheese salt and freshly ground black pepper   optional   2 oz prawns, peeled and deveined and chop into small pieces or 1 smoky bacon rasher, cooked and chopped     serves 2

 

1. Heat some oil in a frying pan and gently fry the onion, spring onion and garlic until soft.

2. In a bowl mix your fried onion mixture with the bread crumbs, cheeses, mayonnaise, herbs and salt and pepper.

3. Divide your mixture up between the two mushrooms and gently fill them up with the mixture. Place your Stuffed Mushrooms onto your BBQ Plank and sprinkle with some parsley.

4. Preheat your BBQ to a medium heat and place your pre-soaked BBQ Plank with the mushrooms onto the BBQ Grill, close the lid and BBQ for 12-15 minutes until the mushrooms are soft and the top begins to brown.

 

 

This is the vegetarian version but you can add the chopped prawns or chopped smoky bacon to the mixture for the meat eaters.

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Each BBQ is different and have different cooking times and temperatures, check your manufacturer's instructions for cooking guidelines.

Planked Baked Apples

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Roasting Plank Baked Apples

 

This is another traditional recipe that can given a new twist by cooking it on wood. Cedar is an amazing wood because of its sweet and spicyness that compliments fish and seafood so well but also fruit such as apples or pineapples.

I prefer to use the Cedar Roasting Plank or BBQ Plank for Baked Apples because of the amazing flavour of Cedar but any of the woods could be used and all of the woods can be soaked in apple cider or apple juice to add an even greater flavour.

 

 

Ingredients
4 baking apples 1 tbsp brown suger 1 heaped tbsp sultanas or raisins 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tbsp runny honey 1 pear, peeled and diced 1 banana, peeled and diced   serves 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Core the apples, leaving the bottom intact.

 

2. Mix together the brown sugar, raisons, sultanas, cinnamon and carefully fold in the chopped pear and banana with the honey.

 

3. Fill the apples with the mixture.

 

 

 

4. Place the apples into a pre-heated oven ( Gas Mark 5) on your pre-soaked Roasting Plank and bake slowly for 40-45 minutes until the apples are soft and tender but not too mushy.

5. Place the plank onto your table and serve with some ice-cream or custard. 

Don't stop with apples though if you love steamed fruit then you will love cooking on a Cedar Roasting Plank or BBQ Plank - next time try plums or pears.

 

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Planked Meatballs with Spaghetti in Spicy Tomato Sauce

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What a wonderful way to serve a traditional dish, the meatballs are tender and moist and the spaghetti looks fantastic on the wood. We used our Cedar Roasting Plank to give a sweeter layer of flavour to the meatballs and spaghetti but the Oak or Beech Roasting Plank will work very well.

Creating new recipes using a Roasting Plank is great fun but also is taking the old favourites and adding a new twist by cooking it on wood.

 

Ingredients

Meatballs 1 slice of white bread, crumbed 500g beef mince 1 finely chopped medium onion 1 clove of garlic, crushed 4 mushrooms, finely chopped splash of Worcestershire sauce salt freshly ground pepper   Tomato Sauce 1 medium onion, finely chopped 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped 1/2 tsp rosemary 1 tin chopped tomato 1 tbsp olive oil 1-2 hot chilli peppers, finely chopped (optional) salt freshly ground pepper     Spaghetti   serves 6

                

Meatballs

 

1. In a large bowl combine the mince beef, onion, garlic, mushrooms, breadcrumbs, splash of sauce, salt and pepper and , using your hands, combine well.

2. With your hands mould 15 meatballs ( roughly the same size!) and place on your Roasting Plank and into a pre-heated oven (Gas Mark 4-5) for 15-20 minutes or until fully cooked.

 

Tomato Sauce

 

1. Warm up the olive oil in a frying pan on a medium heat and then add the onion, garlic and chilli and cook for about 2-3 minutes until the onion is lightly browned.

2. Add the tomatoes and rosemary and slowly simmer on a low heat for 10 minutes. Stir occasionally and season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

3. After 10 minutes, allow to cool.

 

Spaghetti

 

1.Bring a large pan to the boil and add salt and a splash of olive oil.

2. Add the spaghetti and cook for about 10 minutes until the spaghetti is al dente.

3. Drain and put back in the pan. Add some more olive oil, season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

 Planking

Put your cooked meatballs around the outside of your Roasting Plank, transfer your spaghetti to the middle of the plank and cover with the Tomato Sauce and, if you want, grate some Cheddar or Parmesan Cheese on top.

 

Put your Roasting Plank in a preheated oven (Gas Mark 4-5) for 15 minutes and then place onto the table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks great and tastes even better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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