Fatty Recipes, Bacon Wrapped Smoked Meat

A fatty is simply a hunk of sausage wrapped in bacon and smoked in a smoker or on a grill. The fatty was created as a snack for everyone waiting hours upon hours for the other smoked meats to be ready, but it is developing into a stand-alone grilling recipe that is great for tailgating for football games or any other party, grill out, cook out, or just a weekend meal.

Fatties are versatile and limited only by your imagination, a favorite quality of mine in a grilling recipe.

Basic Fatty Ingredients

~Ground Sausage (I like the tube of Jimmy Dean the best)
~Thick cut country-style bacon (or you can have a pork belly sliced to desired thickness by your butcher)
~ Your Favorite Grilling Seasoning

This is the ingredients for only a basic Fatty, below you'll find instructions on how to make a fattie and some great fattie recipes.

Making a fatty is easy! The first step in making a fatty is to decide if you are going to make a basic fatty recipe or a more exotic fatty recipe and then gather your ingredients.

Making A Fatty

~ After gathering your ingredients cut your sausage out of the pack, leaving the ground sausage tube intact once the plastic wrapping is removed.

~ Here you have 3 choices:

1. If you're making a basic fatty recipe then you can move to the next step.
2. If you're going to stuff the fatty, the cut a slit in the sausage tube and put desired ingredients inside.
3. flatten out the sausage, lay desired ingredients on top and the roll up the sausage and make a sausage roll rather than a traditional stuffed fatty.

~ season the sausage with your favorite grilling seasoning.

~ wrap in bacon. (Below you'll find a terrific method for wrapping the bacon so that everything stays together.)

~ Grill the fatty on low, indirect heat with a charcoal grill. You can smoke it using your favorite hardwood. I prefer apple wood because I think it goes great with the bacon. * you can use a gas grill, but you won't get the rich charcoal flavor*
Cook at 225 - 250 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-3 hours or until done. The bacon should be crisp and browned.

Ingredients For The Pineapple Ham And Cheese Fatty

Basic Ingredients
Jimmy Dean ground sausage
Thick sliced Bacon

Stuffing Ingredients
canned pineapple bits or grilled fresh pineapple chopped
diced ham
cubed cheddar cheese (I like mild)

optional stuffing ingredients
sliced black olives
red pepper flakes

Follow Instructions above. You can stuff or roll this one.

*For a twist you could try using a sweet glaze on the outside of the bacon on the fatty.

Ingredients For The Mexican Fatty

Basic Ingredients
Jimmy Dean ground sausage
Thick sliced Bacon

Stuffing Ingredients
chorizo (mexican sausage)
pepper jack cheese cubed
bellpepper
onion
minced garlic

optional stuffing ingredients
jalapeno peppers
hot sauce

Follow Instructions above. You can stuff or roll this one.

*For a twist you could top with queso after cooking

Ingredients For The Breakfast Fatty

Basic Ingredients
can of corned beef hash in place of the jimmy dean sausage
Thick sliced Bacon

Stuffing Ingredients
mild cheddar cheese
sliced mushrooms
black olives

Follow Instructions above. You can stuff or roll this one.

~Serve With: grits, toast, and eggs or mix everything up in a bowl for a fatty breakfast bowl.

I got the idea for this one in the video below.