Cowboy Queso we can imagine cowboys or “New York City” cowboys sitting around the campfire enjoying this meaty, cheesy queso on chips or whenever you like a really good dip/sauce on. We used some of our favorite smoked cheese in this, but you can use your favorites. We arranged all the ingredients in an aluminum pan. You can mix them altogether in any oven safe pan or large cast iron Dutch oven before you put them on the Green Mountain tailgater.

Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on our Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme.  Wood Pellet Patio Heater, little lights, candles, lanterns and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…

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Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes at 350* (177c) or until the cheese sauce is melted and bubbly
Grill: Green Mountain Wood Pellet Grill, Davy Crockett Tailgater
Pellets: Green Mountain’s Texas Blend BBQ Pellets

Ingredients: Cowboy Queso

• 1 ½ lbs. extra lean ground beef 90/10
• 1 medium sweet onion, chopped
• 1 7oz. can chopped green chilies, drained
• 1 lg. can Rotel diced tomatoes with chilies, drained
• 2 cups sliced jalapenos with seeds
• 2 cups yellow cheese cubed (we like Velveeta)
• 2 cups queso Blanco cheese, cubed (we like Velveeta)
• 2 cups smoked pepper jack cheese, cubed
• 1 cup sweet peppers, chopped
• ½ cup smoked minced garlic
• Taco seasoning, to taste

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

Cooking Directions: Cowboy Queso

In a large cast iron Dutch oven cook hamburger with the taco seasoning, garlic and onion until beef is no longer pink.

Preheat the tailgater to 350* (177c).

Place your cooked meat into an oven safe pan, we used an aluminum pan for easy clean up.

Blend in remaining ingredients and you are ready for the grill. Set your pan directly into the Tailgater. Just let it sit in the smoke until the cheese melts (about 15 minutes) and stir it, mixing well. Give it another 10 minutes or so to let everything blend and get happy.

Because I used an aluminum pan, I used a large pizza peel to remove it from the grill.

Be careful an aluminum pan would fold as you try to pick it up and might spill HOT MOLTEN cheese everywhere.

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need to follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like. Also, you are only smoking at temps less than 250* (122c), anything higher is cooking and there will not be much if any smoke, so it does not matter what kind of pellet you are using.

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

 

Backyard BBQ
A Wood Pellet Grill Recipe 

About our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Green Mountain, Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven, Sawtooth, Louisiana, Royall, Memphis, Traeger pellet grills, Char Griller side box smoker, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can do our recipes on any grill, even some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….

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Ken & Patti

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