Vampire Bat Satay on a Stick

Put a wooden stake through its heart! Put it in the inferno of fire.  Yummm, tasty.

Make vampire bat satay  on a stick with ordinary ingredients.  Silver utensils recommended but not required.

Bats are normally good for the ecosystem unless you want to get rid of a bunch of blood-sucking, money grabbing, greedy sons of....wait, that's Wall Street, I digress...

For a Halloween treat at the buffet or dinner table, prepare this ghoulish dish that can be served as finger food, appetizer or the main course.  No sit-down dinner as your guests might be running.

Step 1 Where's the beef?

You shouldn't really eat real bats, eat the other bat meat, beef.

You will need a grainy cut of beef like flank steak or brisket.

You will need some ground beef to use for filler.  

If you are making the proverbial bat from hell, chop up some spicy hot peppers and mix in with the beef.  Chili powder or hot sauces can also be mixed in.  Adjust the level of heat desired.  You can also spice up the dipping sauce.  That would be some crazy fn bat sauce.

You will need some veggie to cut out for the fangs.  I used radishes.  You can substitute some other firm root vegetable like turnip, parsnip, water chestnuts, etc.

Have a sharp knife.

Have a meat tenderizer/pounder to flatten out the fillet.

You will need to have a marinade for the beef to give it some extra dark color.   I used some "Gravy Master" and soy sauce.

Use any seasonings or rub that you like - onion, garlic, ginger, salt, pepper, herbs and spices...

A few whole peppercorns to use for the eyes.

Vegetable oil to coat.

Bamboo skewers - pre-soak them in water to help prevent burning in the oven

You can use the broiler in the oven or if you are still stuck in your parent's basement or the dorm - the toaster oven might work in a fix.

Comments

[CatTrampoline]

Awesome! I've got to make these! The place where my husband works is having a lunchtime fundraiser bake sale but they aren't allowed to sell anything that would compete with the cafeteria contractor's offerings. He told me that food on a stick was popular last year because the cafeteria does not sell anything on sticks.

[caitlinsdad]

But you could shut the cafeteria down with something like this.

[sunshiine]

Kewl! You sure know how to make food creepy!
Sunshiine