The BEST Little Smokies Recipe | Julie Blanner (2024)

FAQs

What are the ingredients in Lil Smokies? ›

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.

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.

Changes in texture: A slimy texture, especially with a loss of color and firmness, probably means your sausage is no longer edible. Mold: Mold or any other sign of bacterial growth indicates you should throw your sausages away.

Things You Should Know

For cooking sausage on a stovetop, heat a skillet with about 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of oil on medium heat. Add the sausages and cook for five minutes on each side. To boil sausages, cover and boil them for 10-15 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 165 °F (74 °C).

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. Keep in mind that boiled sausages won't be brown and crispy on the outside.

Fried sausages recipe

Keep cooking for 15-20 mins, moving them around in the pan and turning them over regularly so they all cook evenly. The sausages are ready when the outside is a deep golden brown and the inside is pale, with no pink meat. Any meat juices running off should be clear.

If you want to learn how to cook sausages, there are many methods you can try. 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 product should still be safe if it has been handled properly after this date unless there is noticeable spoilage (off odor, flavor, texture). Same is true for the "once opened use within 7 days" concept. The most likely problem for this type of product after 7 days would be mold growth.

All sausages- except dry sausage - are perishable and therefore must be kept refrigerated or frozen. Uncooked fresh sausage can be stored in the refrigerator one to two days; after cooking, keep for three to four days refrigerated (40 °F or less).

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.

Do little smokies have MSG in them? ›

Ingredients. Beef, water, corn syrup, Contains 2% or less: salt, potassium lactate, dextrose, natural flavor, calcium lactate, sodium phosphate, monosodium glutamate, sodium diacetate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite. Made With Calcium Alginate or Beef Collagen Casing.

Processed meats such as bacon and hot dogs are linked to mental breakdowns, a study suggests. Patients taken to hospital with manic episodes were more than three times more likely to have recently eaten meats such as ham, salami or beef jerky.

Uncured lil' Smokies have no preservatives, no added MSG. no added phosphates, nitrates or nitrites.

Fully-cooked mini smoked sausages made with high-quality cuts of beef. No added phosphates or MSG.