Barbeque ideas please!

stressedoutmumof1

How do you make your burgers? I make mine and bind them together with an egg yolk, along with any herbs and onions lying around. The most importnat thing is to keep them in the fridge to "firm up" before you cook them - that should help them keep their shape. I also cook thin steaks, chicken breasts and sausages. For accompaniments (sp?) I would make HM coleslaw, HM potato salad, HM cold rice salad, jacket potatoes and of course bread rolls. Hope you have a lovely BBQ

trigger2

chicken kebabs with red onion, peppers, cherry toms. (without meat for veggies).
good quality sausages with a nice relish.
good old fashioned steaks.
bbqd fish seasond & wrapped in tinfoil.

mmmm hungry now, when did you say you're having it ?

wyebird

Maybe, I didn't leave them in the fridge for long enough :think:

Pink.

Hi wyebird,

There's an older thread on barbeques with lots of ideas and recipes that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Now BBQ season has started (well nearly, its bank holiday Monday so of course its raining) I wondered if we could have a thread for BBQ food ideas and heads up on any BBQ special offers, charcoal etc.

I find BBQ alternatives more expensive than cooking in the kitchen because people tend to eat more, and it is predominantly meat.

My cheaper alternatives are spare ribs, whole chicken cut into pieces, sausages, halloumi cheese and yesterday I skewered some cheap courgettes and mushrooms which were nice.

Any other ideas please?

poppet

Home made burgers work out cheaper than the ready-made equivelant. I use the cheaper/fattier minced beef for my burgers as the additional fat helps to keep the burger moist but the trade off with this is that the extra fat is likely to make your bbq fame up, but I do find the leaner minced beef can make a dry burger.
You can make the mince go much further by adding breadcrumbs to the mix.

Put the beef in a bowl, season well, add finely chopped onion if you want, add herbs such as thyme or parsely, and the breadcrumbs, then squash it all together using your hands and form into suitably sized beef patties - the size is up to you but make sure they fit inside your chosen roll.

Sometimes the mixture feel too dry and crumbly,so you could add an egg to help bind it all together, but I rarely have to do this.

celyn90

baked potatoes and corn. My dad always used to wrap bananas in foil with sugar and bake those too Also works with tinned pineapple rings.

crazyaboutsaving

You can make a big sandwich on a baguette with cheese and veg, wrap it in foil and toast it on the bbq. Then there's veg kebabs (with cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and peppers). Hot dogs or sausages can be cheap if bought on sale!

sunflower76

I made nice salad potaotes to go with my BBQ last night which were steamed spuds with 2tbsp of olive oil, 1tbsp water, salt and pepper, 2 garlic cloves, and a handfull each of mint and parsley. Everything but the potatoes blitzed in the food processor then everything mixed together in a bog bowl.

I wanted to do fish on the BBQ last night and bought some trout fillets very cheaply. Next to them, for twice the price, were trout fillets with lime, chilli, garlic and ginger marianade. So if you make your own dressings and sauces I'm sure you'll save plenty.

Nice chicken dressing: 2 tblsp each of runny honey, worcester sauce, english mustard and orange juice mixed together and spread over the chicken.

Gangstabird

A nice thing to do with sausages to liven them up is to roll in honey then dip in sesame seeds, they taste luverly.