Description
Pigs in Blankets are a classic, crowd-pleasing appetizer featuring cocktail sausages wrapped in crispy smoked streaky bacon, baked to perfection and finished with a drizzle of sticky honey for a delicious sweet twist. Perfect as a festive treat or party snack.
Ingredients
Scale
Ingredients
- 15 rashers/strips of smoked streaky bacon
- 30 cocktail sausages
- 2 tbsp honey
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat the oven to 200C/400F (fan). This ensures the sausages and bacon will cook evenly and get nice and crispy.
- Prepare Bacon: Take a rasher of bacon and stretch it out a little, then slice it in half widthways to create smaller strips perfect for wrapping.
- Wrap Sausages: Take a cocktail sausage and wrap one of the bacon halves around it tightly. This ensures every bite has a perfect bacon-to-sausage ratio.
- Arrange on Tray: Place each wrapped sausage seam-side down on a baking tray to prevent unwrapping during cooking.
- Bake Initial: Place the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 25 minutes until the sausage is thoroughly cooked and the bacon edges are crisp.
- Add Honey: Drizzle the honey over the cooked pigs in blankets, adding a delightful sticky glaze that enhances flavor.
- Final Bake: Return the tray to the oven for an additional 5 minutes to allow the honey to caramelize and coat the bacon and sausages beautifully.
- Serve: Remove from the oven and let cool slightly for a minute to avoid burns from hot honey, then transfer to a serving plate and enjoy immediately.
Notes
- Little sausages wrapped in bacon, with a little twist to make them sticky and even more delicious!
- Perfect accompaniment to Christmas turkey or as a party snack.
- Use smoked streaky bacon for the best flavor and crispiness.
- Make sure to place the wrapped sausages seam-side down to keep them intact during baking.
- The honey drizzle adds a wonderful sweet contrast to the savory sausages and bacon.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 piece
- Calories: 64 kcal
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 144 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 1 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 11 mg
