If you love entertaining like me, you’re most likely aware of how the Big Green Egg can truly transform your cookout game and give you mouth-watering ribs, delicious hamburgers, and succulent chicken dishes, basted and roasted to perfection. The versatility of these ceramic BBQs makes them a wise investment that takes the guesswork out of whipping up a truly memorable meal. These seventeen viral recipes showcase the best of the Big Green Egg, from your delicious cookout fare to higher-end dishes prepared flawlessly.
1. Super Easy Smoked Chicken Dip
This profoundly flavorful and easy recipe from grillin with dad starts with a seasoned spatchcocked chicken cooked on your Big Green Egg, then shredded and combined with layers of shredded cheese, hot sauce, bacon, and jalapeno dip, then put back into your Big Green Egg for 20 minutes to melt the cheese and meld the flavors together. Served with crisp tortilla chips, this dip is at the next level.
2. Hot Wings
Chicken wings and the Big Green Egg are a match made in mouthwatering heaven, and this recipe for hot wings, courtesy of the bbq buddha, lets you customize the marinade to perfectly suit your spice preference. With a combination of habanero sauce and Nashville hot rub, these wings have fabulous flavor and spicy depth that pairs perfectly with cool ranch or blue cheese dressing.
3. Korean Spicy Grilled Chicken
Jettila’s take on Korean spicy grilled chicken is one of my BBQ faves because it’s easy, unexpected, and packed with flavor. You just need a few specialty ingredients like gochujang, soy sauce, and sesame seeds. The rest are kitchen staples, like brown sugar, garlic, and chicken thighs. The result is a deeply layered sweet, spicy chicken with a Korean flair.
4. Empanadas with Leftover Pulled Pork
This collaboration from bgenation and grillin with dad is an inspired way to use leftover pulled pork and makes tasty, single-serving crisp empanadas bursting with tender meat, cheese, and the salsa of your choice. Plus, they come together quickly, needing just 15 to 20 minutes inside your Big Green Egg. They’re a party classic in my house.
5. Memphis Style Dry Ribs
If you’re looking for succulent, authentic Memphis-style dry ribs, the Big Green Egg is your BBF- Best Barbecue Friend. As chrislillybbq illustrates, you can cook up an intensely flavored, dry rub based batch that’s ideal for your late-summer parties. I’ve used both spare and back ribs and can attest that both work beautifully with this recipe.
6. Pork Butt Burnt Ends
Grillin with dad’s fresh spin on burnt ends features the humble pork butt. Cooked in the Big Green Egg, you’ll get rich BBQ flavor and chunks of pork butt that are crisp on the outside and tender and toothsome inside.
7. Korean Style Shorty Throwback
I love a good short rib recipe and this delicious take from poplarsmoke.bbq hits the spot. Don’t skimp on the marinade time; the longer your ribs soak up those flavors, the better they will be. The combination of brown sugar, garlic, and soy sauce lends these ribs a sweet and salty flavor that pairs perfectly with sesame oil and black pepper to taste.
8. Polpo a la Luciano
The Big Green Egg isn’t just for BBQ fare; you can create higher-end food with intense flavor combinations in this ceramic cooker, too. Biggreenegguk’s seafood spectacular, Polpo a la Luciano, features a delicate octopus flavored with several cloves of garlic, tomatoes, salty capers, and chili flakes for a spicy kick. It’s multi-layered and refined enough for any gathering.
9. Smoked Chicken Wings
Saltfirebbq’s super simple and deeply delicious smoked chicken wings feature just six ingredients, including your wings, and are cooked to perfection in a 400-degree Big Green Egg. Agave lends some sweetness, while chipotle hot sauce and ghost pepper honey bring the heat and nuance. Soy sauce ties it all together. I like to add a little lime at the end to brighten up the dish.
10. Steve Raichlen Rib Wings
These rib wings are a fun riff on your standard chicken wings and a great collaboration between biggreenegg and stevenraichlen. You will need some St. Louis ribs individually cut and seasoned liberally with a combination of salt, paprika, pepper, chili powder, brown sugar, hot sauce, BBQ sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. A bit of apple cider vinegar helps to tenderize the ribs and add a slash of acidity to your rib wings.
11. Jerk Chicken with Spicy Nandos Style Rice
Bring all the flavor to your next BBQ with this fiery recipe courtesy of willsgrillshack. The chicken gets a scorching makeover with two Scotch Bonnet peppers, white wine vinegar, and a spice mix featuring warm cinnamon, nutmeg, garlic, and soy sauce. This recipe gives you anything but boring chicken, and trust me, your guests will be there for it.
12. Hot and Fast Bourbon Peach Ribs
Nibblemethis’s take on bourbon peach ribs from overthefirecooking yields a rack of utterly tender ribs fully infused with a boozy and fruity kick that are a great way to use up some of summer’s best stone fruits.
13. Full English Breakfast
Your Big Green Egg has applications well beyond the backyard BBQ, as this recipe from biggreenegguk proves. You can cook up a full English breakfast, sans toast and beans, in your cooker. You’ll get crisp bacon, ideally cooked eggs, and charred tomatoes and mushrooms in a flash.
14. Indian Spiced BBQ Charred Lamb Chops
Zarskitchen’s lamb chops have a hefty dose of masala, fruity notes from mango chutney, and bright mint jelly throughout every bite. These chops are a great option if you’re looking for a guaranteed crowd-pleaser dish but want to play around with some bold flavors. Mix up everything in your food processor, marinate your meat, and let the Big Green Egg do the rest.
15. Sunday Roast
For a fab Sunday roast that gives your oven a little break, try this version from ks_ate_here. Cook it low and slow for at least three hours in your Big Green Egg until its fork tender and falling off the bone. A good roast needs nothing more than a touch of herbs, honey, and a light spice rib to really sing.
16. Hog ‘n Salmon
Spiceology’s outside-the-box spin on salmon seasoning pairs fresh Chinook King salmon with Flavor Hog spice rub for an intensely smoky filet of fish that you can cook up with your Big Green Egg on low heat with applewood chips for a brilliantly new way to enjoy this top BBQ dish. The salmon stands on its own, but you can kick it up with some fresh lemon if you’d like.
17. Grilled Lobster Tails
If you want to bring out the big guns at your next BBQ, fire up your Big Green Egg and make these grilled lobster tails courtesy of biggreenegg. It starts with generous-sized lobster tails cooked to perfection and presented with a dollop of smoked caper cream on the side. I like to serve it with some clarified butter, too, for a little extra layer of decadence.
These Big Green Egg recipes are viral Instagram favorites for a reason: they make great use of one of the best BBQ tools available today. Try a few of them at your next summer soiree, and you’ll be amazed by the results.
