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Silver fork pinching mini sausage among several in white bowl, grey linen and wooden board underneath.

Cocktail Sausages

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The easiest sweet and smoky, most delicious appetizer ever! There's hardly any prep work, and less than 5 minutes on the stove are needed to enjoy these irresistible cocktail sausages, cocktail weenies, lil smokies, cocktail weiners, or whatever you call them. It's a perfect recipe for any type of gathering, to munch on before a barbecue, for game day, movie night, or just because. Any excuse is a good one!

  • Total Time: 7 minutes
  • Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

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  • 12 ounces (340g) Lit'l smokies or mini weiners/cocktail sausages, preferably smoked (see Notes below for alternative)
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 3 teaspoons dijon mustard
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce (see variations in the Notes, below)

Instructions

  1. Put the smokies or sausages in a saucepan or skillet. See Notes below about pre-cooking them.
  2. Add brown sugar, mustard, soy sauce and mix. 
  3. Heat on medium and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently so they don't stick. 
  4. When a syrup is formed, they are ready to eat. 
  5. Transfer to a bowl and serve. 
  6. Refrigerate leftovers and warm again before eating. The sauce will be much thicker. 

Notes

Pre-cook the sausages: depending on the type of sausage you use, they might be already fully cooked or not. I like to boil them for 1-2 minutes before mixing them with the rest of the ingredients but it's not always necessary.

Smoked sausages: if you don't use Lit'l Smokies sausages or another one that is smoked, you can add a few drops of liquid smoke, giving it a great flavor. You can buy it online, like Colgin Mesquite Liquid smoke.

Whole sausages: if you can't find mini ones, simply cut large ones into medium pieces. For this recipe, you can use about 4 ones. 

Saucepan or skillet: the first one will take longer to reduce and in the latter, the smokies will caramelize better individually and maybe char a little, which is a good thing.

Variations: White wine can also be used instead of soy sauce. If you like honey, you can use 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1 of honey. Also, feel free to throw in a clove of garlic (crushed or chopped, depending if you want to take it out before serving or not) to the mix before heating it on the stove.

  • Author: Paula Montenegro
  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Cook Time: 5 minutes
  • Category: Appetizers
  • Method: Cooking
  • Cuisine: International

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1/4
  • Calories: 305
  • Sugar: 6.8 g
  • Sodium: 982.1 mg
  • Fat: 24.4 g
  • Carbohydrates: 9.2 g
  • Protein: 10.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 49.3 mg