Nisha Katona

Demons on Horseback

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    24

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Nisha Katona

Published 2024

  • About

The original ‘devils on horseback’ are dates, stuffed with cheese or nuts and wrapped in bacon. I’ve altered the recipe slightly to make them truly demonic – with Sriracha sauce for some explosive heat and a cute sweety drop pepper in place of the cheese or nuts. The ideal canapé for a pepper-loving fiend.

Ingredients

  • 24 large pitted prunes
  • 4 tbsp Sriracha sauce
  • 24 jarred sweety drop peppers, draine

Method

Soak some wooden cocktail sticks/toothpicks in water for about 30 minutes (so they don’t burn under the grill).

Cut a small slit in the side of each prune (if there’s not an obvious hole where the stone was removed). Spoon ½ teaspoon of the Sriracha sauce into each prune, then pop a whole tin