Smoked meats can be low cal. too - Recipe for a "Skinny Fatty"

Tweaking_Time

For those of you that don't know what a "Fatty" is in the language of people that smoke meats...it is usually about 1.5 - 2.0 pounds of pork sausage, spread out thin, then layered with goodies, rolled up, and wrapped with bacon and smoked to perfection. I managed to get this fatty down to about 300 calories per slice.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients as follows:

1.8 lbs ground chuck - 1500 calories
center cut bacon - 12 slices - 420 cal - 35 cal. per slice
Muenster cheese - 400 cal
Feta cheese - 50 cal
Mushroom, onion, peppers - 50 cal - all were stir-fried using a 1 second blast of Pam
Pam spray - 9 cal
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Total - 2429 calories - at 8 slices/fatty-log = about 305 calories per slice

Seasonings: Salt, pepper, garlic powder

Here is a pic right before it went in the smoker at 225F (smoked with hickory with a touch of mesquite)



Here it is 3 hours and 15 minutes later - and done



Here it is sliced



With an ear of corn on the cob - the whole meal is 400 calories and tastes amazing.

bkwcsw

I love my electric smoker. I actually bought a meat grinder at Cabela's and grind my own ground chuck that way I can control the amount of fat in it. I haven't tried using turkey bacon yet in the smoker but will as I'm curious if it will assist in reducing even a few more calories in my fatty and jalapeno poppers.