5 Easy Oven Recipes Better Than Grilling

Every dish in this set comes out of a regular home oven, which makes it a lineup for apartment kitchens, rainy Saturdays, and the eight months a year when nobody wants to stand over coals. We cooked and filmed all five in one video, and they share a single idea: high, dry oven heat can handle the browning and the sticky glazes that a grill usually claims for itself.

Bacon does a lot of the work here. It candies under brown sugar and sriracha in the opener, wraps onion rings in the second recipe, and covers a honey-garlic camembert near the end. Between those sit a full tray of sticky wings, the only dish that asks you to plan ahead and brine, and tortilla kebab sticks that put BBQ flavour on skewers to close the video.

Start with the candied pickle bacon if you want a quick read on the whole set; it needs just five ingredients and shows how sugar and heat do the grill’s job. Save the wings tray for a weekend when you are feeding more than two.

Recipes in this video

Five ingredients and the shortest path into this set: brown sugar and sriracha give bacon the sweet-hot glaze the bigger dishes chase in their own ways.

The party trick of the group. Onion rings wrapped in bacon are easy to pass around, so make these when you want finger food rather than a knife-and-fork dinner.

This one anchors the set. A trayful of sticky wings feeds a table rather than a snacker, so plan it as the main event and build the others around it.

Cheese fans should jump straight here. Honey and garlic over baked camembert make the gentlest dish of the five, a soft counterpoint to all that crisp bacon.

Save these for company. Skewers of layered tortilla with BBQ flavour close the video, and they are the pick when you want something that looks like it came off a grill.

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