#47) Bean’s Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnut Recipe ~ A Super Food For A Super Sunday

If you’ve never had bacon wrapped water chestnuts in your life, I suggest adding them into your life - as soon as humanly possible.

All ingredients.

There’s a reason I continually make this delicious dish on special occasions. These terrifically tooth-picked creations are most definitely a quintessential party food… A happy food. A celebratory food. They are such a delicious treat that the dish garners a special occasion to quite naturally go along with it.

Chestnuts soaking in soy sauce.

Both trays to be used.

Tray with non-stick foil for the bacon to bake in the first time.

Bacon cut into thirds.

So, I tend to make this dish on the Christmas Eve holiday, on a night of casual and easy and most importantly, tasty, appetizers in my home. I also recently decided to make this on Super Bowl Sunday. A day which is Holiday in America - Holiday with a capital H.

And, although I don’t even watch the game…

I know, I know. I am one of those people who don’t even watch. Or should I say, I just don’t pay attention. I only watch the Puppy Bowl - if that. And the National Anthem. But - it’s Super Bowl Sunday in America - and I have to celebrate along with the rest of the country. If I must - I must.

I’m forced into it by tradition, whether I like the game of football or not. I’m just there for the puppies. And the commercials.

Stir until you get this consistency.

With that in mind, I’d highly recommend this dish if you need something to bring to a Super Bowl party, or any fun party really. It’s a great take-along dish. Something you can either prep entirely in advance and bring, hot, to a party that’s close to your home. Or, you can prep all the steps in advance except the final one. And then, once you arrive at your destination, bake the final step at the home you are bringing it to for the party. The chestnuts can then be served fresh and hot at your party location.

Either way, this dish is easy, quick, and a fabulous party food.

And guess what else, I absolutely promise you that your dish will be the highlight of the party. No other dish will bring such praise… The bacon alone will create quite a stir, but add in all the other flavors, and you are the hit of the party - guaranteed.

So prepare for this dish to go fast, whether you want it to or not, I promise.

Ingredients:

• 1 16 oz. package of bacon
  
• 3 8 oz. cans of whole water chestnuts
  
• ⅓ cup brown sugar, packed
  
• ⅓ cup ketchup
  
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  
• 1 ½ tablespoons Worcester sauce
  
• Freshly ground pepper to taste
  

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400.
  
• Drain cans of chestnuts.
  
• Put the chestnuts in a quart size ziplock baggie.
  
• Pour the soy sauce in the baggie and let the chestnuts soak in the soy sauce while preparing the rest of the dish.
  
• Cut all the bacon slices into thirds.
  
• After chestnuts are done sitting in their bath tub for a while, take the slices of cut bacon and wrap each chestnut with a bacon slice and then stab a toothpick through both sides of the bacon to hold it together.
  
• Once all chestnuts are wrapped with bacon and held together with their toothpicks, place them on a tray of non-stick foil and bake in the oven for 30 mins.
  
• While bacon is baking, prepare sauce.
  
• Put brown sugar in a mixing bowl.
  
• Add ketchup into the bowl.
  
• Add 1 ½ tablespoons of Worcester sauce into the bowl.
  
• Add freshly ground pepper into the bowl.
  
• Stir all added ingredients to make sure the brown sugar is mixed really well, into a smooth consistency.
  
• Once bacon wraps have completed their 30 minutes in the sauna, transfer bacon wraps into a pyrex tray to remove them from sitting in their fat drippings. Pour sauce over wraps.
  
• Bake that tray for 15 mins.
  

Share & Enjoy! ~

For more of Bean’s Best Recipes, go ahead and check out these creations below:
10] Bean’s Soulful Southern Chili
38] The Year Of The Sweater ~ Bean’s Minestrone Soup Recipe
43] Bean’s Bold Beef Stew Recipe

Do you love incorporating bacon into your recipes? Go ahead and step foot in your kitchen and make this dish; then - tell me how you like it? I’m so curious - go ahead and share with me in the comments down below.

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Author:

Christine Pieper is an Artist and Lifestyle Blogger, living, writing, and painting in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, with her hubby and eight year old puppy. She made a major life change in 2017 by uprooting and moving from Illinois to the Sunshine State, and has been living her best life in Florida since - detailing all her many and varied adventures living and traveling the Deep South to share with you. Her mission is to help you live YOUR best life - by getting out there, going for it, and making that big change you always dreamed of. Christine will inspire you to get over yourself, show up for yourself, and get out of your own way. The only one stopping you - is YOU.

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