Delicious Devils on Horseback
Place one of these morsels into your mouth and experience a flavour and texture explosion. Each mouthful is crispy, crunchy, chewy, smokey, sweet and salty. Dates are stuffed with smoked almonds, then wrapped in streaky bacon and seasoned with ginger soy sauce, before being baked.
Ingredients
Makes: 20
- 20 cocktail sticks
- 4 tablespoons reduced salt soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 110g dark brown soft sugar
- 20 dates, pitted and left whole
- 20 whole smoked almonds
- 10 rashers streaky bacon, cut in half crosswise
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:15min ›
Extra time:15min cooling ›
Ready in:1hr
- Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas 6. Soak the cocktail sticks in a bowl of water. Grease a 20x30cm baking dish.
- In a bowl, mix together the soy sauce and ground ginger. Place the dark brown soft sugar into a shallow bowl. Spread open a pitted date, then stuff it with a smoked almond. Wrap the date with half a bacon rasher, secure it with a cocktail stick, dip the bundle in soy sauce mixture and then dip it into dark brown soft sugar. Place the wrapped dates into the prepared baking dish. If desired, sprinkle a little more dark brown soft sugar over the bundles.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the bacon is brown and crisp, 15 to 25 minutes. Allow to cool for about 15 minutes before serving; serve warm or at room temperature.
Double or triple the recipe for a large crowd! You can also use prunes or dried apricots instead of dates or mango chutney instead of the almonds. Serve on top of watercress greens.
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These are awesome!! I had these back in the 80's when I was stationed in Bermuda. Feel free to substitute walnuts for the almonds, apricots for the dates, I've even used smoked oysters and sliced water chestnuts wrapped with the bacon ... limitless combinations. - 24 Sep 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I made these today with smokehouse almonds, figs, low sodium bacon, and brown sugar (I forgot to buy soy sauce and ginger). I also sprinkled them with red pepper flakes after they were in the cake pan, because I wanted them to have some kick (they are devils, after all). They take a little while to put together, but they cook up quickly, and they're REALLY good. My buddy who was over to watch football loved them, as did my girlfriend's buddy who was over to get her hair done. If you want something tasty and impressive, and you don't mind taking a little time to make them, these are awesome. I think I'm gonna make a super spicy batch for Halloween. - 09 Oct 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This was a hit! We demolished them in about 2 seconds. Everybody wanted more. Only thing I would suggest don't do to much brown sugar. This was a easy quick recipe. - 24 Jan 2011 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)