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Grilled Pinwheel Lollipops

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I recently had some friends over and cooked up some smoked-meat filled hamburgers. They were as delicious as I’d hoped, and I was busy boasting about it on twitter when Deerhurst Resort chimed in with a bit of a throwdown:

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Not being one to shy away from a challenge, I came up with homemade steak, sausage and smoked meat pinwheels. It was my first time making them, and they worked out perfectly. My kids thought meat on a stick was the greatest thing they’d ever seen. We will definitely be making these again soon!
I didn’t have any sausage around, so doctored up some lean ground beef with tomato sauce, herbs and spices. Sausage would have been easier and quicker. I also opted for thin ribeye steaks as opposed to the more traditional skirt steak, as I thought the marbling would help ensure my pinwheels didn’t dry out.
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Grilled Pinwheel Lollipops
Serves: 8
Couch to table in: 90 minutes

Ingredients:
2 thin rib eye steaks, about 1 cm thickness each 
1/2 pound ground sausage (casing removed)
 10-15 slices smoked deli meat

Preparation:
  1. Butt the steaks up against one another on a cutting board and flatten with a meat tenderizer, rolling pin or similar.
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  2. Press the sausage meat out onto the steaks in an even layer.
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  3. Top the sausage with an even layer of smoked meat.
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  4. Carefully roll up the beef, keeping the core as tight as possible when rolling. Cover tightly in plastic wrap and place in freezer.
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  5. After 60 minutes remove beef from freezer (it should not be frozen), place skewers through the plastic wrap at 1 to 2 cm intervals, being sure that you pierce close to the seam to hold the pinwheels closed.
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  6. Carefully remove the saran wrap and slice the beef into individual pinwheels.
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  7. Preheat grill over High heat. Grill pinwheels until desired doneness, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Serve with BBQ sauce or mustard. 

Comments

  2. emmyjr1 says

    They were amazing! I should have taken pics. I actually added some low sodium bacon that I pre-cooked, so yummy! I used Montreal smoked meat and I halved the recipe. I always try your recipes Gav, they always work too.

  5. Gav says

    Haha. You ladies crack me up. We’ll have to have an UM cook-out this summer and get you all some good-eats.

  7. Sara says

    okay…………umm….can I please come over for dinner?? This needs a name like a turducken….