Take your BBQ to the next level of tasty and healthy. These recipes are great for your all your patriotic celebrations.
Fruit & Cheese Board
Bunless Burger Bites
Red, White, Blue Cocktail
Patriotic fruit & Cheese board
Crackers
Fig Spread
Flour tortillas
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
Pepper jack and White Cheddar cheese
Watermelon slices
Red Seedless Grapes
Blueberries
Strawberries
Pineapple Slices
Use a star cookie cutter to cut out star shapes from the watermelon, pineapple, cheese and flour tortillas. Grill or toast the tortillas. Arrange everything around a large wooden board. Enjoy!
bunless burger bites
These burger bites are a smashing appetizer! Turkey meatballs are dressed with home-made guacamole, butter lettuce and sliced cherry tomatoes.
SERVINGS: About 12 bites
Ingredients:
· 1 pound lean ground turkey
· 1 teaspoon garlic powder
· 1 teaspoon kosher salt
· ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
· ½ teaspoon sweet paprika
· 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
· 2 teaspoons LadyRen Chef’s Blend seasoning * (available here)
· 2 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsely
· ½ cup guacamole
· 6 grape or cherry tomatoes, cut in half
· 3 butter lettuce leaves torn into medium pieces
· 3 slices cheese cut into quarters or shaped into stars using a cookie cutter
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
3. In a medium bowl, add the ground turkey, garlic powder, salt, pepper, paprika, Worcestershire sauce, LadyRen Chef’s Blend, and fresh parsley. Mix to combine but without over mixing.
4. Scoop and roll the mixture into balls, then place them on the baking sheet and slightly flatten them.
5.Bake for 20 to 25 minutes (ovens bake differently), until the meatballs are cooked through.
6.Assemble the bites: Top each meatball with a small slice of cheese immediately after coming out of the oven, so it can melt. Then top with a dollop of guacamole. Thread a piece of lettuce and half cherry tomato onto the skewer first, then stick the skewer through the rest of the ingredients. If you try to skewer everything all at once, you'll smush down on the guacamole.
red,white & blue sizzling cocktail
Yield: 3 cup
Layered drinks in red, white, and blue is perfect for Memorial Day and 4th of July! Non-alcoholic and kid-friendly too.
INGREDIENTS:
1 Cup Red Cran-Apple juice
1 Cup White Sobe Pina Colada flavored drink or 1 can of regular ginger ale (not diet)
1 Cup Blue G2 Gatorade
Ice cubes
Skewers, pineapple, strawberry halves, blueberries, for garnish
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Fill each glass all the way to the top with ice cubes./3 of the way full with CranApple juice.
2. Fill 1/3 of the way with CranApple juice.
3. Slowly pour the ginger ale directly on top of a piece of ice cube.
4. Repeat this step with the Gatorade
5. Garnish: Skewer strawberry halves, pineapple cookie-cut-out star, and a blueberry.
NOTE: The trick to layering drinks is to pile the glass high with ice cubes, then be sure to keep the drink with the heaviest sugar content on the bottom, then build up.
To create an adult cocktail, first add ice, then the liquor, and then your mixers.