Chicken is a popular meat choice for barbecue appetizers.
Barbecue appetizers can be made with a variety of ingredients, including seafood, vegetables, and meat. Many meat appetizers are marinated before grilling and basted during the cooking process. Skewers and toothpicks can also help make easy-to-serve barbecue appetizers, like bacon-wrapped new potatoes or sweet chicken skewers with peanut sauce.
Spicy baby back ribs can be marinated in barbecue sauce as an appetizer.
Shrimp can be used to create a variety of barbecue appetizers and are usually marinated and skewered before being grilled. Grilled Garlic Herb Shrimp is made by marinating shrimp with Italian seasonings, lemon juice, and olive oil before grilling. The prawns used in the honey barbecue are marinated in honey, oil and sherry for a few hours before being grilled. Additional sauce is applied while the shrimp are cooking. Sweet and spicy shrimp skewers are made with honey, chipotle peppers, and fresh cilantro.
Pork tenderloin is commonly used to make pork skewers.
A variety of vegetables can be served as a barbecue appetizer. Garlic Stuffed Mushrooms feature white mushrooms, garlic and butter. The mushroom caps are placed on a roasting plate, covered with a clove of garlic and drizzled with melted butter. Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms with Grilled Onions feature mushroom caps stuffed with crumbled cheese. Onion slices and mushrooms are grilled until the cheese melts, then top with the accompanying onions.
Small sausages can be grilled and served on skewers as an appetizer.
Vegetables are often combined with meat to make grilled appetizers. Bacon-wrapped new potatoes are made by wrapping the potato in bacon and securing it with a toothpick. The potatoes are then drizzled with dry ranch dressing and grilled until the bacon is cooked through. Stuffed jalapeños are stuffed with cream cheese, olives, and a smoked meat mixture. They are wrapped in bacon and placed on a skewer to grill.
Chicken is a popular meat choice for grilling and also for grilling appetizers. Sweet Peanut Sauce Chicken Kabobs are seasoned with hot apple juice, teriyaki sauce, and peanut butter. The chicken is marinated and grilled and served with the peanut sauce. Grilled Master Chicken Wings are seasoned with soy sauce, Italian sauce, and hot sauce. They can be cooked ahead of time and heated on the grill.
Pork and beef can also be paired with many barbecue appetizers. Spicy grilled ribs are marinated in barbecue sauce, lemon juice, and peppers for several hours, then grilled. The ribs should be brushed with the marinade as they cook. Miniature Teriyaki Pork Skewers feature strips of pork tenderloin placed on the skewer alternately with mandarin orange. Green bell pepper is used on each end of the skewer, which is covered in a mixture of teriyaki, honey, and rice vinegar before grilling.