Easy Appetizer Recipes
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One of the Best Recipes for Appetizer Wraps
These pork appetizer wraps are really special. The sauce is made from beer, BBQ sauce, and chili and this mixture is used for basting the pork while it grills, as well as for a sauce to go inside the wraps. Keep the sauce for basting and the sauce for serving with the wraps separate so you do not contaminate it when you use it on the raw pork. Discard the leftover basting sauce after using it. You need to be careful with raw pork and chicken, and keep marinades and sauces separate.
When making holiday appetizer recipes, you might want to make chilled appetizer wraps and then cut them into pinwheels. It is also nice to make hot appetizer wraps like this tasty pork wrap recipe and serve them hot, or at least warm. The combination of barbecue pork, cilantro, and sour cream in these appetizer recipes is really nice. There are other recipes for appetizer wraps and you can fill them with anything you like. Tuna, mayonnaise, and pineapple is a good combination. Mozzarella, fresh tomato slices and basil leaves would be another nice filling.
These appetizer wraps can be messy to eat so serve them on a plate or in a bowl with cutlery. At least have some napkins around. If you are looking for recipes for finger food you might prefer to make chilled appetizer wrap pinwheels because they are easier to eat, but if you want to make hot appetizer wraps the flavor of these is hard to beat.
Barbecue Pork Appetizer Wraps
Ingredients -
4 boneless pork loin chops, 6 oz each and ¾ inch thick
½ cup beer
1 finely chopped green chili
1 cup BBQ sauce
4 tablespoons sour cream
Handful of fresh cilantro
8 flour tortillas
Salt and black pepper, to taste
Preparation:
Mix the chili, beer, and BBQ sauce in a pan and bring the mixture to a boil over a moderate to high heat.
Turn it down to a simmer and cook for 6 minutes or until thick.
Take the sauce off the heat.
Preheat the grill to moderately hot and sprinkle salt and pepper over the pork.
Grill it uncovered for 4 minutes over a direct heat or until it is browned on one side.
Turn it over and brush some of the sauce over it.
Grill the second side of the pork chops until browned.
Keep turning the pork and basting it with the sauce until it is 155 degrees F inside.
Let the pork chops rest on a cutting board, under a layer of aluminum foil, for 10 minutes.
Reheat the rest of the sauce and warm up the flour tortillas.
Slice the pork thinly and divide it between the tortillas.
Add the cilantro, the rest of the sauce and the sour cream and roll the tortillas up.
Use a toothpick to secure them.
(Makes 8)
Photo Description:
These colorful appetizer wraps are easy to make and if you are having a cookout you can make them outside, since the pork needs to be grilled. If you want to make some vegetarian ones too, like in the photo, you can double the amount of wraps and slice up some fresh tomatoes and mozzarella. Fill half the wraps with that mixture and add some basil. If you are catering for vegetarians though, you might want to serve the tomato, basil and mozzarella wraps on a different plate! These pork and cilantro appetizer wraps are really flavorful. The wrap in the bottom left corner is filled with pork and tomato, so you could make a variety of appetizer wraps or just stick to the barbecue pork ones if you prefer.
