These Bacon Wrapped Steak Bites are an awesome framework for steak that you could take in a hundred different directions.
I had some sirloin steak lying around and it just didn’t look too inspiring. Sirloin is an okay cut of meat but if I want steak I want a ribeye. All the same, a little over a pound of sirloin had landed in my kitchen and I needed to figure out what to do with the thing.
I figured, why be subtle? Let’s go ahead and cut the steak up, beat the heck out of it and force it to be delicious!
I started by trimming the fat and a bit of gristle out of the sirloin and then cut the remaining meat into eight large “bite sized” pieces. I grabbed my tenderizing mallet and pounded each piece of steak until it was about a quarter inch thick.
The picture below shows the size of the “steak bite” before and after pounding.
After the bites were flattened I dusted them with some Montreal Steak seasoning.
The steaks were stuffed with Swiss cheese, a mushroom slice and a piece of cooked bacon.
I wrapped each steak bite with a whole slice of thin cut bacon, dusted with a mix of turbinado sugar and chili powder, and then inserted a toothpick to hold it all together.
I grilled these on a Weber Jumbo Joe over direct heat using GrillGrates. I turned the bites about every five minutes to crisp the bacon on all sides. It took about 20 minutes to get the bacon the way I liked and there were no flare ups; GrillGrates are wicked cool.
The stuffed steak bites came out looking spectacular and were devoured in a matter of minutes. I didn’t use any bbq sauce with these but if you wanted to use some I would go with something sweet to compliment the sugar rub.
I hoped you liked the post and got an idea or two for the next time you want to do something a little different on your grill. You could go nuts with all sorts of stuffing: caramelized onions, blue cheese, jalapeno slices, sun dried tomatoes with feta..who knows, even tater tots? What are some other ideas to stuff this guy with?

Bacon Wrapped Steak Bites
Ingredients
- 1 pound sirloin steak
- 1/4 cup sliced mushrooms
- 5 slices swiss cheese
- 1/2 pound thin sliced bacon
- 2 tbsp Montreal Steak Seasoning
- 2 tbsp turbinado sugar
- 2 tbsp chili powder
Instructions
- Cut the sirloin steak into cubes and flatten the cubes by pounding.
- Season one side of the flattened steak bite with Montreal Steak Seasoning
- Add a slice of mushroom and a piece of Swiss cheese to the steak.
- Roll the steak bite onto itself, wrap in bacon and secure with a toothpick.
- Season the bacon with turbinado sugar and chili powder
- Grill the steak bites until the bacon is crisp and the internal temperature of the steak is 135F.
Butch Hawkins says
This is an awesome idea. Got some sirloin chops sitting in the fridge. I’m going to try this recipe tonight. Thanks for posting it.
David says
Thanks for dropping by, Butch! I hope you love them!