Recipe: Delicious Grilled Watermelon with Bacon

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Transfer to a plate and season with salt. Dice the grilled watermelon into large cubes and toss with shiso leaves. Transfer the grilled rounds to a serving plate; top with bacon, blue cheese crumbles, and fresh basil. You can have Grilled Watermelon with Bacon using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grilled Watermelon with Bacon

1. You need of Grilled watermelon.
2. It's of Olive oil.
3. Prepare of kosher salt.
4. It's of Cooked bacon.
5. Prepare of Blue cheese crumbles.
6. You need of Fresh basil leaves.
7. Prepare of Carolina Joe's grilling sauce or your preferred barbecue sauce.
8. It's of Watermelon slice into half inch slabs.

Remove from oven and set aside. Trim the skin from the watermelon. Cut the watermelon into ½ inch thick squares, approximately the same size as the bread slices. Wrap a pickled watermelon rind with bacon and secure with a toothpick.

Grilled Watermelon with Bacon step by step

1. Preheat grill to 350 to 400°F.
2. Cut half of a small watermelon into half inch thick rounds, using a round cookie cutter..
3. Brush both sides of each watermelon round with olive oil and season with desired amount of kosher salt.
4. Grill watermelon rounds, without a grill lid, 1 to 2 minutes on each side or until grill marks appear..
5. Transfer the grilled rounds to a serving plate; top with bacon, blue cheese crumbles, and fresh basil. Drizzle watermelon rounds with Carolina Joe's grillin' sauce, or your preferred barbecue sauce and serve immediately.

Sprinkle liberally with Tony C's or some other cajun-like rub. You have to watch them closely and rotate them often, because with the high sugar content they burn easily. Place bacon in single layer on parchment-lined rimmed baking pan. Bacon pieces should be starting to crisp around the edges, but soft and pliable in the middle. While warm, wrap bacon slices around watermelon cubes.