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Sweet Chili Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts with Delta Faucet
One of our favorite appetizers are those yummy little bacon wrapped water chestnuts. As much as I love them I’ve always wished they had a little spice factor going on with that delicious smokiness, so this year I teamed up with my big boys and came up with a recipe that still delivers the nice salty, smokey crunch, but is complimented with the perfect amount of sweet heat.
Sure, letting the boys help increased the mess factor by about 100 percent, but seeing how happy cooking with Mom makes them, I’m happy to live with a the bigger mess.
…Especially now that I have a Delta Touch20 Faucet with Touch Technology.
To make our Sweet Chili Bacon Wrapped Chestnuts we had handle raw bacon as we wrapped it around water chestnuts that had been soaked in soy sauce. Then we dipped them in brown sugar, so not only did we have raw meat gunk on our hands, our hands were also super sticky.
A combination that normally would cause me to feel very anxious, feeling like the boys would get grubby raw meat germs all over the faucet while they were cleaning up their hands
Being able to easily reach over and tap the faucet with our wrists or the back of our hands to keep from spreading the raw meat germs, was AMAZING!
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- With Touch2O® Technology, you can simply tap anywhere on the spout or handle of the faucet to precisely start and stop the flow of water. The faucets are available for your kitchen and bathroom. Delta faucets with Touch2O Technology were designed to make life easier when your hands are messy or full. They were the first touch-sensitive faucets of their kind.
Am I the only person out there who gets legit anxiety about turning their faucet on with “raw meat hand?” This faucet is a dream come true. I felt way more patient letting the kids handle raw meat and I didn’t feel like I had to scrub down the faucet with bleach wipes after we were done.
I couldn’t believe how much calmer I was about having them in the kitchen making a “mess” with me. I think I need to change my attitude about “mess.”
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- Somewhere along the way, mess got a bad reputation. But that’s not really fair. Mess is the evidence of a life well lived and means we’re out there making, creating, doing and playing. Delta’s HappiMess platform encourages everyone to embrace life’s messiest moment’s with confidence, knowing Delta kitchen and bath innovations will be there to help cleanup.
We cleaned up the kitchen and did dishes while we waited for our Sweet Chili Bacon Wrapped Chestnuts to finish cooking. We had fun laughing and the boys wanted me to tell them stories about Christmas when I was a little girl.
Sharing time together in the Kitchen with my boys is my happy place, even doing the dishes is fun when we are doing it together and we get to use our Delta Touch20 Faucet. The boys were practically fighting over who could do the dishes, and, I may or may not have been entertaining them by turning it on with different parts of my face.
Delta is no joke, they know how to make a good faucet.
Delta Faucet believes in the transformative power of water, and exists to deliver those daily transformations to their consumers. As the leading faucet manufacturer for 60 years, Delta Faucet has provided quality products and innovations that change the way consumers experience water in their central, everyday living spaces – their kitchens and baths.
Don’t let mess hold you back from living and enjoying the messes of life. Delta’s got your back, so lets go out there and make messes, and…have fun cleaning them up.
So go ahead, make a #HappiMess, we want you to share your biggest Holiday Messes with us, we can’t wait to see them. Share pictures on your social media with hashtags #HappiMess and #DeltaLiving. Remember friends, making a mess isn’t a bad thing, but simply the evidence of life well lived. Follow along and check out all the “happy messes” at DeltaFaucet.com/HappiMess
And don’t forget to make a big mess with these awesome Sweet Chili Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts.
- 1 (12 ounce) pkg sliced bacon, not the thick cut
- 2 cans whole water chestnuts
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 30-40 toothpicks
- ½ cup sweet chili sauce
- Drain Water Chestnuts and place them in a bowl, Pour the soy sauce over them and allow them to sit for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Prepare a baking sheet parchment paper if desired or spray with cooking spray
- Take bacon out of package and cut it into 3 equal sections so that you will have about 30-40 3" little strips of bacon.
- Pour brown sugar into a bowl that you can dip the bacon wrapped chestnuts in.
- Wrap a piece of bacon around a chestnut and secure it on with a toothpick, dip the bacon wrapped chestnut in brown sugar and place on cookie sheet.
- Repeat until all water chestnuts are wrapped and dipped in brown sugar
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Remove from oven and put a small dab of sweet chili sauce on each bacon wrapped chestnut
- Return to oven and bake for an additional 20-25 minutes or until bacon is desired crispness.
- Serve warm and enjoy.
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Delta Faucet. The opinions and text are all mine.
Those look like so much fun to make. Perfect for the big game appetizer plate.
I definitely have the same fears! I usually have someone turn the faucet on for me, but this faucet looks so much easier. What a yummy appetizer too!
What a great faucet, wish I had one! And those bacon wrapped water chestnuts sound so good!
Ok!!! EEKKK we make these every year for christmas! Except we don’t do the brown sugar but now I need to try it! YUMMY… love these things!
First – I need a faucet like that in my life! My hands are always so messy this would be a life saver. Second – These little bacon wrapped bites are calling my name!
Loving the faucet, recipe and picts. Lovely!
Thank you Miryam.
Loving this flavor combo!!! And I have sink envy now.
I seriously want one of those faucets – perfect when your hands are covered in raw meat! As for the recipe, I could easily eat a dozen of these appetizers.
Every cook needs this faucet. It’s the bomb and the appetizers….yeah, they’re dangerous.