Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts

Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts

-3 cans water chestnuts drained

-1 C. soy sauce

-1 1/2 C. brown sugar divided

-4 C. Ketchup

-1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

-2 lbs center cut bacon

-toothpicks soaked in water

First mix the soy sauce and 1 cup of the brown sugar together in a medium bowl.  Place chestnuts and sauce mixture in a 9x13 pan.  Place in refrigerator and let sit over night.

Mix 1/2 C. brown sugar, ketchup, and Worcestershire in a large bowl.  Open bacon and cut in half.  Dip the bacon into the ketchup mixture and then wrap the bacon around the water chestnut and secure with a tooth pick.  Place in a 9x13 pan and broil in the oven for 20 minutes or until the bacon is crisp.    If tooth pick burns just replace when done.