Best Little Smokies Recipes

LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Stir together barbecue sauce, brown sugar, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, onion, and wieners in the bowl of a slow cooker. Cook on LOW for 2 hours, or until ready to serve.

MY PICKLED LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Place the sausages into a saucepan, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes, poking sausages with a sharp fork to release fat. Drain and rinse the sausages.
• Place the sausages into a 1-quart glass canning jar.
• Pour white vinegar and water into a saucepan, and stir in the pickling salt, pickling spice, mustard seeds, celery seeds, dill seeds, onion slices, garlic, black peppercorns, and banana pepper rings.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook for 5 minutes, stirring often.
• Pour the vinegar mixture over the sausages in the jar; cap the jar, and refrigerate at least 3 days before serving.

BOURBON LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, whisk the ketchup, brown sugar, bourbon whiskey, and water together until the sugar has dissolved.
• Stir in the cocktail sausages, and place over medium heat.
• Bring the sausages and sauce to a simmer; serve.

ZINGY LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• In a sauce pan place all the ingredients.
• Warm it on low simmer until the grape jelly and mustard combine to form a yummy sauce. (Approximately 20 minutes).
• People will not believe that the sauce is only grape jelly and mustard. You can make up something that sounds more expensive if you wish.
• Works nicely in a crock pot as well.

MOM'S LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Stir the ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, mustard, cinnamon, and cloves together in a saucepan over low heat; cook until completely warmed, about 5 minutes. Add the sausages and continue cooking until the sausages are heated through, stirring occasionally, about 25 minutes.

BEST LITTLE SMOKIES EVER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine: ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, mustard, cloves and cinnamon.
• Mix well.
• Add the Little Smokies (drain out the liquid from packages) and cover.
• Simmer on medium-low heat for about 30-45 minutes or until Little Smokies are heated through, stirring occasionally.
• If doing these in a crockpot; combine ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, mustard, cloves and cinnamon in a bowl.
• Mix well.
• Add the Little Smokies (drain out the liquid from packages) to the crockpot and pour sauce mixture over them.
• Stir to evenly coat Little Smokies.
• Cook on high heat 2-4 hours before serving, or until Little Smokies are heated through, stirring occasionally.

LITTLE SMOKIES IN ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring all glaze ingredients to a slow boil.
• Add cocktail franks.
• Reduce heat to med-low and cook 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Place in a crock pot (on low) or a chafing dish to keep warm.
• Serve with toothpicks.
• You can easily double or triple this recipe.

CHEEZY MACARONI AND LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Fill a large pot with lightly salted water, bring to a boil, and stir in the macaroni. Return to a boil and cook the pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until cooked through but still firm to the bite, about 8 minutes. Drain well.
• Whisk together the soup, milk, and onion flakes in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Bring to a simmer, and stir in the sausage links, cheese, and carrots. Bring the mixture back to a boil, stirring frequently, until the cheese has melted and the mixture is bubbling.
• Stir in the hot cooked macaroni, and serve.

BACON-WRAPPED BROWN SUGAR SMOKIES (KATHY LITTLE) RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• Cut bacon into 1/3's. Wrap 1/3 cut bacon strips around each lil' smokie and secure with a toothpick. Place one layer of bacon wrapped smokies on large heavy cookie sheet. Cover completely with brown sugar. Cover with foil. At this point you can refrigerate overnight if you need them for the next day. Bake at 375 covered for 30-40 minutes. Remove foil and turn oven to broil. WATCH carefully. Let broil approx. 3-5 minutes until bacon is crisp. Remove from oven and pour juice from pan into crockpot. Be careful , I put the foil back on leaving 1 corner open. Using hot pads, pour juice into crockpot. Remove foil and turn smokies over and broil 2-3 minutes on other side just until crisp. Remove and put in crockpot on WARM. Make plenty because these disappear quick!

HOMEMADE CORN DOGS OR LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl. combine dry ingredients. Add the buttermilk, eggs and 2 Tablespoons oil and stir well to combine. Fold in onions, bacon and cheese. When batter is well mixed pour into a quart canning jar to within 1 inch of top. Or use a tall glass. In an electric fryer or large pot, heat enough oil to come halfway up the fryer or pot and heat to 360^. Pat dry and roll hot dogs in cornstarch shake off any excess. One at a time, while holding the skewers, dip the skewed hot dogs into the batter, turning to completely and thickly coat on all sides. Slip the coated dogs in batches into the hot oil and cook turning, until golden brown on all sides, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain on paper towels and place on wire rack and sprinkle with seasoned salt. Pass the dipping sauces.
• 2. Makes great appetizers using little smokies instead of the hot dogs..

GERMAN POTATO SALAD W/TURKEY KIELBASA OR LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Wash potatoes; peel and cut into eighths. Place potatoes in a large cooking pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 min.
• 2. While potatoes are boiling, mix together flour, sugar, salt, pepper, and celery seed. in a 2 cup measuring cup, mix the water and vinegar.
• 3. Drain potatoes, place back in cooking pot; set aside.
• 4. In a large skillet, fry bacon until crisp; remove and drain. cook and stir onion in bacon drippings until tender and golden brown. stir in flour mixture. Cook over low heat stirring until bubbly. Remove from heat; stir in water and vinegar. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
• 5. Add kielbasa or smokies. Boil and stir 1 min. Crumble bacon over potatoes; pour meat mixture over potatoes and bacon. Stir until well coated.

BLACK-EYED PEAS AND LITTLE SMOKIES WITH CABBAGE

Steps:

• 1. Do not drain black-eyed peas.
• 2. Place all ingredients in a crock pot and cook on high for 3-4 hours until cabbage is cooked through.
• 3. Serve with cornbread.

LITTLE SMOKIES IN SWEET PEANUT BARBEQUE SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Heat little Smokies as dirceted on the Package - Mix the jam and the barbecue sauce in a sauce pan and set over medium heat, cook untill jam is all melted, stirring occasionally, then stir in the lemon juice. - REMOVE from heat and blend in the Peanut Butter , ( Note : If you want a thinner sauce add the 1/4 cup of Beef Broth at this time ) also add the hot pepper sauce if you want them spicy, Return the pan to stove over medium heat . Bring just to a boil and remove from stove.
• 2. Place little smokies in a crock pot and pour in mixture from sauce pan over smokies - Set Crock Pot to LOW Heat to keep warm, while serving . - Good Served with Green Bell Peppers and Fresh Pineapple Chunks If disired .

LITTLE SMOKIES WITH ORANGE DIPPING SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine the orange juice and syrup in a medium sauce pan. Bring to a simmer.
• Add coctail wieners and let simmer for 10 minutes or until heated through.
• Pour into a nice serving bowl, place in the middle of a serving tray, surround with cheeses and crackers...makes a great snack tray. Add a container of cute toothpicks for ease of service.

LITTLE SMOKIES FOOTBALL WIENIES

Steps:

• Add all ingredients together in a crockpot, set on low either overnight or from early the day you wish to serve them.
• The longer they simmer, the better they taste.
• Everyone loves them and they don't last long.

PUFFED LITTLE SMOKIES WITH SWEET MUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• To make dipping sauce, whisk all sauce ingredients together in a small mixing bowl.
• Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Unroll dough and cut into little triangles. Roll each smokie in a triangle and place on a cookie sheet.
• Brush with butter.
• Bake at 375 degrees until golden, about 10 minutes.
• Serve warm with sweet mustard dipping sauce.

CROCKPOT BEER LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Open packages of Lit'l Smokies® and drain off any liquid. Combine beer, sugar and pepper in 3-quart slow cooker. Stir until sugar dissolves. Add sausage. Cover and cook on HIGH for 2 hours. Cook's Tip: Substitute Hillshire Farm® Smoked Sausage, cut in ½" slices for the Lit'l Smokies®.

LITTLE SMOKIES IN CHERRY PRESERVES

Steps:

• Bring little smokies and the preserves to a low boil and then simmer for about 5-10 minutes or until the jelly thickens a little. Stir occasionally to keep from burning or sticking.
• We put them in a serving dish if they are going to be eaten fairly quickly. If to be left out for guests to graze on for awhile, then we puy them in a fondue pot (or sometimes we set out an electric skillet on low) to keep warm.
• Easily doubled or tripled for large crowds.
• Note - two 18 ounce jars of preserves and 3 packages of smokies do well for a large batch.

SASSY LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Brown little smokies in a large saute pan.
• Combine bbq sauce and marmalade in a bowl. Pour over sausages.
• Saute about 5 minutes until heated through.
• Can transfer mixture to crock pot if want to keep warm for extended period of time.
• **Variation: combine all ingredients in crock pot and wait til sausages plump up (should take about 3 hours on low).

CROCK POT LITTLE SMOKIES

Steps:

• Combine all items in crock pot.
• Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
• Enjoy!