Big Green Egg - Big Green Egg Cookbook: Celebrating the Worlds Best Smoker and Grill

Big Green Egg Cookbook

Expecting recipes for omelets and scrambles? Not in this EGG book (although both could be done). Instead, the Big Green Egg Cookbook celebrates the EGG as cooker, or more accurately, the worlds best smoker, grill, and oven.

For more than thirty years, company president Ed Fisher has lovingly and painstakingly nurtured this ancient kamado-style cooker, taking it from an obscure, quirky, fragile, clay cooking vessel to an updated, hip, and still quirky barbecue made of durable state-of-the-art ceramics. Along the way, Big Green Egg has amassed legions of fans, some of whom are so devoted and passionate they refer to themselves as EGGheads. If you consider yourself part of this enthusiastic group, you well know the charcoal-fueled EGG is unrivaled in its versatility, and creates moister and more flavorful food than any other outdoor cooker. Even if youre not an EGGhead (yet) but just love great food and cooking outdoors, by the time you finish this book, youll understand what all the fuss is about.

This comprehensive guide to the EGG explores the history of the kamado-style grill and pays tribute to the EGGhead culture that has sprung up around it. It offers tips, techniques, and how-tos to satisfy every skill level. And best of all, the book provides over 160 newly developed, carefully tested recipes for appetizers, meats, fish, vegetablesincluding vegetarian dishes, breads, desserts, and rubs and saucessome contributed by well-known professional chefs, pitmasters, and EGGheads who love cooking in the ceramic EGG. The recipes, which range from classic barbecue favorites to fresh and innovative new ideas for the grill, are artistically photographed and sure to inspire you to get out and get cooking.

Youll soon discover that whether its grilled, smoked, baked, or roasted, everything tastes better year round when cooked in the EGG.

Big Green Egg Cookbook: Celebrating the Worlds Best Smoker & Grill Recipes 2009 Big Green Egg, Inc. Photographs 2009 Mark OTyson. All rights reserved Printed in China No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews. For information, write Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106.

E-ISBN: 978-1-4494-0220-4

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Produced by Donna Myers, DHM Group, Inc.
Packaged and designed by Jennifer Barry Design, Fairfax, California
Recipe development and food styling: Sara Levy
Food styling and recipe testing assistance: Bree Williams and Bryan Hartness
Design and art direction assistance: Leslie Barry
Layout production: Kristen Hall
Copyediting: Leslie Evans
Photography by Mark OTyson and Text by Lisa Mayer

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If you are new to the world of
ceramic cookers, welcome and congratulations!
You have some great meals in your future. Ed Fisher

We might as well break it to you right now: your kitchen oven is about to become a high-priced storage cabinet. So versatile is the Big Green Egg ceramic cooker that you may never use your indoor appliances again.

If you are new to the world of ceramic cookers, welcome and congratulations! You have some great meals in your future. We hope this book will help you master the basics and quickly join the legions of enthusiasts for whom cooking in their EGG is not just their favorite way to prepare a meal but a way of life.

This dedicated band of followers, affectionately known as EGGheads, considers the EGG more than just a grill. To them it is The Ultimate Smoker and Grill, much like a Harley is more than just a motorcycleits the ultimate motorcycle. And as many Harley owners live, sleep, and breathe the Harley lifestyle, so too do many of these passionate EGG owners.

Ed Fisher, president and founder, Big Green Egg

If you already are one of these seasoned EGGheads, you know what we mean. We thank you for your support and loyalty to our ceramic cooker. Your fervent passion for the EGG is among the reasons for its growing success over the past three decades. We recognize your tremendous contributions to the evolution of our product, including ideas for new products and features, and we are profoundly grateful. After all, no one knows the EGG better than those passionate enough to use it day in and day out.

Like most of us, you probably have grilled, smoked, roasted, and baked your way to culinary bliss in the Big Green Egg. But what youll find new here are fabulous recipes, nearly 170 of them, that take cooking in a ceramic cooker to a whole new level. From modern twists on tried-and-true barbecue favorites to exotic, gourmet dishes with sophisticated flavors, youll find inventive menus to scramble up your repertoire (pardon the pun!) and challenge you with new techniques.

Could there be anything better than cooking good food in the great outdoors? We dont think so. The mix of sweet fresh air, spicy wood smoke, and the zesty aroma of food cooking over the coals is an intoxicating elixir that will not only get your mouth watering but also light the desire to cook every meal in the EGG all year long.

So stoke up the fire, don the apron, and take up the tongs. A very tasty adventure awaits.

Happy cooking,

Ed Fisher, president and founder, Big Green Egg

The Big Green Egg creates food that is moister, more flavorful, and far superior to food cooked on an ordinary barbecue grill.

What exactly is a ceramic cooker? It is a type of thick-walled, elliptically shaped barbecue sometimes called a kamado. While it may be an unusual appliance by todays standards, evidence of enclosed, rounded earthen cooking vessels has been found by archaeologists in the ruins of practically every ancient civilization since cavemen (or, more likely, cavewomen) figured out that meat tasted a whole lot better when it was cooked over a fire.