Stuffed & Grilled Bacon Wrapped Chicken Thighs

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 button mushrooms, chopped fine
• 1 shallot, chopped fine
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped fine
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 4 chicken thighs (large)
• 12 slices bacon

Recipe

• 1 prepare your charcoal for the grill (i'm sure this is good on gas too but the charcoal grilling was out of this world). spray a 12x12 or so piece of heavy duty foil with cooking spray. when coals are ready, place a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil directly on the grill directly over the hot area.
• 2 saute the mushrooms, shallots, garlic in the butter over medium heat until soft. remove from the pan to a plate to cool at least 10 minutes.
• 3 (if you were trying to do the whole thing on the grill, i'm sure you could cook this mixture on a piece of foil also).
• 4 run your finger up under the skin of each thigh to make a pocket. divide the mushroom mixture into fourths and stuff each thigh with 1/4 of the mixture. this takes some patience, but starting at one end of the thigh, wrap 3 pieces of bacon to secure the mushroom mixture inside and try to wrap each piece of chicken in the bacon.
• 5 you can secure with toothpicks, but i didn't and it was fine. i just had to be careful when turning them over.
• 6 grill on the foil, turning every 10 minutes. fat will accumulate on the foil, allow this to happen for the first 30 minutes of grilling.
• 7 after 30 minutes, punch holes in the foil or remove it completely and allow the chicken skin side to have 10 minutes of direct grill contact.
• 8 serve hot and crispy.