Best Tomato Bon Bons Recipes

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TOMATO BON BONS



Tomato Bon Bons image

Provided by Food Network

Categories     appetizer

Time 50m

Yield 24 pieces

Number Of Ingredients 18

1/2 seedless cucumber, minced
24 grape tomatoes, cored
1 ounce Asiago cheese, cut into 24 small cubes
3 eggs
1 pound ground sausage
1 cup flour
Breading, recipe follows
4 cups vegetable oil
1 cup fresh tomato salsa
1 cup ranch dressing
1 cup shredded Asiago cheese
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Dash cayenne pepper

Steps:

  • Stuff each of the tomatoes with a cube of Asiago cheese. Beat 1 egg in a medium bowl. Mix the sausage in until the egg is completely incorporated. Lay a 12 by 12-inch piece of plastic wrap on your workspace. Break off about 3/4 of an ounce of the sausage mixture and make a small pancake in the palm of your hand. Put the stuffed tomato in the middle of the pancake and wrap the sausage around it, rolling it in your palms to create a meatball, making sure the entire tomato is covered with the sausage mixture. Set it on the plastic wrap and continue with the remaining tomatoes.
  • Beat the 2 remaining eggs in a small bowl. Put the flour and Breading in separate small bowls. To set up your breading station, place the 3 bowls in this order: flour, egg, and breading mixture. Lay another 12 by 12-inch piece of plastic wrap on your work space. With one hand (the wet hand), place a bon bon into the flour. With the other hand (the dry hand), roll it around gently until it is lightly coated. Pick it up and place it into the egg bowl. With your wet hand, roll it around gently until it is lightly coated with the egg. Place it into the breading bowl. With your dry hand, sprinkle some Breading over the bon bon, and then begin to gently roll it around to coat it. Place it on the clean piece of plastic wrap. Continue until all of the bon bons have been breaded. If needed, you can roll the bon bons around gently in your clean dry hands to ensure that they're perfectly round. Let sit while the oil is heating.
  • Using a candy thermometer, heat the oil to 350 degrees F in a pan that is deep enough that the bon bons will be completely submerged. Fry the bon bons 6 at a time until they are completely golden, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain on paper towels. (The bon bons can be made ahead and warmed on a sheet pan in a 325 degree F oven for 5 to 7 minutes before serving.)
  • Process the salsa and ranch dressing in a small food processor for about 30 seconds. Pour into a bowl and stir in the cucumber. Serve with the bon bons.
  • Mix all the ingredients well.

TOMATO BACON BON BONS WITH BACON TAZIKI SAUCE



Tomato Bacon Bon Bons with Bacon Taziki sauce image

There is bacon in every layer of this recipe. A bacon lovers dream recipe! The Taziki sauce really adds a great level of taste. These will be such a great appetizer at your next party.

Provided by William Smith @wsmithchef

Categories     Meat Appetizers

Number Of Ingredients 14

2 pound(s) pork sausage, mild, ground up
12 small grape tomatoes
1 package(s) cream cheese whipped
2 cup(s) cooked bacon bits, diced fine
2 cup(s) diced raw bacon, fine dice
1 package(s) panko bread crumbs
1 cup(s) asiago cheese, grated
1 tablespoon(s) oregano, fresh, diced fine
6 large egg yolks
1 cup(s) milk
1/2 cup(s) ranch dressing
1 pint(s) home made fresh salsa of your choice
1 large english cucumber, diced fine
4 cup(s) Crisco food shortening

Steps:

  • First you will take this step by step, take the grape tomatoes and core out the center, once done set them aside, take the cream cheese and whip in the bacon bits, you're looking for a rich bacon flavored cream cheese, make sure this is whipped to the point of frosting,
  • Now take a piping bag with a small tip, or a Ziploc bag with the corner cut out, fill the bag with the cream cheese mix and stuff the tomato with the mixture until it's full, once your done, set in fridge.
  • Now take sausage and raw bacon and mix together with the Asiago cheese, take a small amount and wrap the sausage mix around the stuffed tomato, just like a scotch egg.
  • Once all tomatoes are stuffed and wrapped with the meat mixture, set them aside and start the breading set up, in one bowl add the milk and eggs and whip till blended, second bowl is going to be bread crumbs and third bowl will be your stuffed bacon pork wrapped tomato.
  • Now once everything is ready, you need to do the sauce, take salsa, ranch and 1 cup of bacon bits and load into food processor along with one cup of diced English cucumber, it should look red but also light.
  • Heat a med sized heavy duty pan up with three cups of grease with a candy thermometer to 300 deg, now take one of the bacon stuffed tomatoes, and dip them into egg first, then bread all over, now take them and dip them into hot grease and fry till golden brown, 6 to 8 min each.
  • Place each bon bon on a grate to drain the grease off, when there all ready drained, take and place on favorite dish, for the sauce, serve in a bowl on the side or spoon sauce over top or if you have a Chinese spoon set, put sauce in bottom and a tomato bon bon on top and bon appetite!

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