Bacon Cheeseburger Pig Shots Recipe
I took some pre cooked sausage and wrapped it with bacon and filled it with hamburger, pickle and onions and topped it with cheese.
I used signature Traeger pellets and set my smoker to 325 until I got an internal temperature of 160 degrees.
If you love bacon cheeseburgers but are on a keto diet, you are going to love this recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 pre cooked rope sausage of your favorite flavor
- 1 package of regular cut bacon
- 1 pound of ground beef
- 1/2 cup of onion
- 20 to 30 hamburger pickle slices
- 1 block of cheddar cheese
- Toothpicks
Prepping Instructions
- Cut your pre cooked rope sausage into discs that are about 1/4 of an inch thick
- Cut your bacon in half
- Cut your block of cheddar cheese into slices just big enough to sit on top of your pig shots
- Wrap your sausage disc with bacon making a “cup”
- Secure your bacon to your sausage with a toothpick
- In a blender, blend your pickles and onions until they are in small little chunks
- Hand mix your onion a pickle blend with your ground beef
- Place your ground beef, onion and pickle mixture into a piping bag or into a zip lock bag and cut a corner big enough to allow the mixture to be squeezed into your pig shot
- Fill your pig shots with your ground beef, onion and pickle mixture
- Place your pig shots on a baking rack
Smoking Instructions
- Pre heat your smoker to 325 degrees
- Place your rack of pig shots on the smoker
- Once the internal temperature of your bacon cheeseburger pig shots reach about 150 degrees, top with cheddar cheese
- Once the internal temperature of your bacon cheeseburger pig shots reach 160 degrees, remove from smoker and let rest for at least 10 minutes
