Low Carb Little Smokies - Easy Instant Pot Recipe! (2024)

FAQs

How do you cook little smokies? ›

Remove 5 links from package and place on a microwave-safe plate. Cover with a paper towel. Microwave on High for 20-25 seconds or until hot. (For compact or microwave ovens lower than 850 watts add 5-10 seconds, if needed).

Yes! Like most smoked sausages, little smokies are already fully cooked. You'll want to heat them through before serving. We think the easiest way is to toss them in the slow cooker with a simple three-ingredient pantry sauce.

Little Smokies - You can substitute sliced smoked sausage or even sliced hot dogs for the little smokies. Brown sugar - I used my favorite brown sugar substitute, Lakanto Golden but any variety of brown sugar or brown sugar substitute will work fine.

Boiling. Boiling is one of the easiest ways to make sausage links at home. To boil sausages, simply place them one by one into a pot of boiling water and let them simmer. Pre-cooked sausages take around 10 minutes, whereas raw ones may take up to 30 minutes.

Strong or unpleasant odor: A strong or unsavory smell is the first sign your sausage has gone bad. If your sausage has a fish-like, acidic or sour smell, you'll likely want to throw it away. Cooked sausage often has a rotten smell when it's gone bad, so even if you bought it precooked, toss it if you notice that smell.

Grilling and frying sausages can make the sausages pop with flavour. Boiling sausages is a faster method but you will have to part with some of the flavour unless you fry them after boiling them.

The Smokie is a type of ready- to- eat smoked sausage that can be made of pork, beef, chicken or a blend of all these meats and other flavourful inclusions.

Hillshire Farm Lit'l Smokies Sausage (5 links) contains 2g total carbs, 2g net carbs, 15g fat, 6g protein, and 170 calories.

Packaged hot dogs can be stored in the refrigerator 2 weeks before opening. After opening a package of hot dogs you can keep them for a week in the refrigerator (40 °F/4.4 °C or less). These meats can also be frozen for 1 to 2 months for best quality. Frozen foods are safe indefinitely.

Are little smokies just small hot dogs? ›

Little smokies: Famous things usually go by many names. You may know them as co*cktail wieners, co*cktail weenies, co*cktail franks, lil smokies, or as my grandma says “baby wursts.” They're small smoked sausages sold in 12- to 14-ounce packages at the store, in the deli section.

In the Oven

Oven-roasting hot dogs is a great alternative to grilling because you can brown them like you can on the grill. Craving a juicy, grilled hot dog in winter? The oven is the next best thing!

Ingredients. Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Water, Corn Syrup, Modified Food Starch. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF Salt, Flavorings, Sodium Lactate, Dextrose, Beef, Sodium Phosphates, Sodium Diacetate, Potassium Lactate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.

Baking them in the oven allows the bacon to crisp, the liquids to be released from the Smokies, and the brown sugar to caramelize on them deliciously. It also allows to you control the fat content of them a bit more easily, as most of the bacon drippings will remain on the sheet pan after cooking.

Smoked Sausage

Preheat oven to 350°F. Remove sausage from bag and place in single layer on rimmed cookie sheet. Place in the oven uncovered, for 20-25 minutes, flipping halfway through, until sausage reaches internal temperature of 145°F.