Weber Grills Holiday Recipe Roundup

This Weber Grills recipes post is in partnership with The Home Depot. All opinions are my own.

Easy Weber Grills recipes for the holidays at home

I received so many comments about our new Weber Summit Grill from Home Depot, so I wanted to share a few recipes to inspire your family to keep grilling while celebrating the holidays at home this year!

I loved that you shared your family’s stories of grilling all year round, and I hope that these new recipes will make their way onto your Thanksgiving menu and Christmas dinner table, too!

 

 

Grilling is the holiday gift that warms everyone’s hearts, souls- and tummies!

I’d love it if you’d share a picture with me if you make any of these innovative grilling recipe ideas for your family’s festivities. 

I’d be happy to share your pictures in a new post with some of my favorite comments on how your families are grilling and chilling- literally- some of you told me that you grill out in the snow! 

I love that!

 

 

3 innovative, entertaining recipes for the holidays at home

These 3 words – homemade apple cider. Made on the grill!

OK- three more words. Smells. So. Good!

Smells like fall, y’all!! This warm drink recipe is perfect for any holiday festivity.

Serve in your favorite mug or glass tumbler to hold, behold and take a sip of warm autumn colors while you smell and feel their ambient glow.

 

 

 

Weber Grill recipes: Homemade pomegranate-ginger apple cider

Serves 6-8

Ingredients

• Fresh apples, 8-10 quartered. You can use a mix of tart and sweet (i.e., Granny Smith, Gala and Red Delicious). I’m using all Gala apples for a sweet cider.
• Fresh orange, 1 quartered with peel on
• Fresh ginger, 2 tablespoons minced
• Whole cloves, 2 tablespoons
• Pomegranate, 1 seeded
• Water, 16 cups
• Brown sugar, 1 cup
• Cinnamon sticks,6-8

Kitchen equipment

• 6-quart pot with lid
• Slotted spoon
• Fine mesh strainer, cheesecloth straining bag or straining pouch

 

 

 

Instructions for homemade apple cider

1. Add the apples and orange in a 6-qt pot on the Weber Summit Grill’s side burner.

2. Add the minced ginger, whole cloves and pomegranate seeds directly into the pot to strain out later.

*Pro tip: I prefer to add these ingredients inside a straining pouch to easily lift out the remains later. With a bag strainer, you don’t have to mince the ginger or thoroughly seed the pomegranate. Just slice and drop into the strainer bag!

3. Cover the apples with water, leaving about an inch or two of space at the top of the pot.

4. Heat the cider over high heat until it reaches a simmer.

 

 

 

5. Reduce the heat to medium-low.

6. Cover and simmer for about 2 hours, or until the apples are completely soft.

7. Using a slotted spoon, remove all of the solids (apples, oranges, spices), pressing them against the strainer to release all of their juices. Use a fine mesh strainer to strain out any smaller apple or orange pieces.

(*If you also used a strainer bag- simply remove the bag!)

8. Stir in the brown sugar.

9. Cover and let the cider simmer for 15-20 minutes.

10. Serve warm & enjoy!

*Optional- After you pour the cider into mugs or tumblers, garnish with a fresh apple slice and a cinnamon stick!

 

 

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In my hometown of Virginia Beach, crabs are plentiful!

Here’s one of my family’s favorite crab recipes you can roast on the grill.

 

 

Weber Grill recipes: Rosemary grilled crab

Serves 2 to 4

Ingredients

• Un-cooked Dungeness crabs, 2
• Lemon, 1 sliced thin
• Fresh rosemary sprigs, 8-10
• Extra virgin olive oil, 1/4 cup
• Melted butter, 1/4 cup
• Garlic cloves, 4
• Dried red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon
• Salt and pepper  to taste

 

 

 

Instructions for the grilled Dungeness crab 

1. Roast 2 Dungeness crabs (about 2 pounds each) directly on the Weber Summit Grill for about 20 minutes.

2. Remove crabs from the grill and let shells cool to the touch.

3. Lightly crack the crab shells, opening the center shell and removing the legs.

4. Spread the opened crabs and crab legs on a large baking platter or baking dish and add 6 to 8 fresh rosemary sprigs.

5. Add 1 large lemon, thinly sliced.

6. Drizzle over the crabs 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil and 1/4 cup of melted butter.

7. Chop 4 cloves of garlic and sprinkle over the crabs.

8. Shake 1 teaspoon of dried red pepper flakes onto the open-crab platter.

9. Add salt and freshly ground black pepper.

10. Toss with your hands to coat the crab pieces with the olive oil and seasonings, then arrange them in an even layer with most of the rosemary and lemon underneath.

11. Place the platter on the grill and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.

12. Remove the crab platter from the grill and surround it with the remaining rosemary sprigs and lemon slices.

13. Serve & enjoy!

 

 

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The Weber Summit Grill had me at rotisserie!

Here’s a tasty Thanksgiving best-bird grilling recipe!

 

 

 

Weber Grill recipes: Apple-ginger rotisserie chicken

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

• Fresh apples, 8-10 Gala apples, quartered
• Fresh ginger, 2 tablespoons minced
• Water, 16 cups
• Brown sugar, 1/2 a cup
• Fresh rosemary sprigs, 8-10 (to cook & garnish)

Kitchen equipment

• 3-quart pot with lid
• Fine mesh strainer
• Slotted spoon
• *Pro tip- add applewood chips to the Weber Summit Grill smokebox

 

 

 

Instructions for the rotisserie chicken 

1. Similar to the homemade pomegranate-ginger apple cider recipe above, add the apples and fresh rosemary sprigs in a 3 qt pot on the Weber Summit Grill’s side burner. (Reserve 1 apple and 4-5 rosemary sprigs to garnish at the end.)

3. Cover the apples with water, leaving about an inch or two of space at the top.

4. Heat the mixture over high heat until it reaches a simmer.

5. Reduce the heat to medium-low.

6. Cover and simmer for about 2 hours, or until the apples are completely soft.

7. Using a slotted spoon, remove all of the apples. Use a fine mesh strainer to strain out any broken apple pieces.

8. Cover and let simmer for 15-20 minutes.

9. Place the whole chicken in the apple mixture and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. You will want to transfer the chicken and the mixture into a larger pot.

10. Remove the chicken from the apple mixture and season the chicken to taste with your favorite poultry seasoning.

11. Roast your rotisserie chicken on the Weber Summit Grill’s unique rotisserie rack until the outer skin is glazed or slightly crisp.

12. Remove the chicken from the rotisserie rack.

13. Garnish on a platter with thin apple slices and rosemary sprigs.

14. Serve & enjoy!

 

 

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