Home Fries On The Grill

Packet cooking is an excellent idea. By using your barbeque to prepare even your side dishes, it keeps your kitchen cool during hot weather and cleanup is a cinch. I hope you enjoy this simple, easy side dish!

Step: 1

Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat and lightly oil the grate.

Step: 2

Spread a piece of aluminum foil on a work surface. Arrange potatoes, onion, bacon, and garlic in the middle of the foil. Drizzle olive oil over potato mixture and season with salt and pepper; toss to coat. Wrap foil around potato mixture to form a packet.

Step: 3

Place packet on the preheated grill and cook until potatoes are tender and bacon is cooked, about 15 minutes. Carefully open packet by slicing foil with a knife.

Per Serving: 271 calories; protein 7.4g; carbohydrates 49.4g; fat 5.5g; cholesterol 5mg; sodium 121.2mg.

The most obvious way to pick a side dish is to caught at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and pick something different. If you’re making pasta, make sure for a simple vegetable . Making steak? Go for more light. If you’re making stir-fry with rice, it must not a good idea to also make a rice salad.

This also can make to cooking process . You don’t want to push more often your oven by making to do list three dishes at once in there, or be juggling four pans on the stovetop . But sometimes you can make a dish do double-duty .