Glazed Kielbasa Bites
These Glazed Kielbasa Bites are the perfect make ahead, bite-sized appetizer. It has a sweet and salty flavor that people can’t stop eating!
I don’t know about you, but I am SO ready for football season to start. I love spending the weekends with my family and our friends. I’m not into college football so much, but the Cowboys are on every Sunday at our house. (You can take the girl out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas out of the girl.) We everyone comes over, I like to put out a big spread of munchie foods so we can graze all day and a pitcher cocktail like my Strawberry & Lime Moscato Punch. One of my most requested appetizers are these Glazed Kielbasa Bites. I make them practically every other week during the fall and they’re always the first thing to disappear.
GLAZED KIELBASA BITES
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One of my favorite things about this appetizer is how easy it is to make. Once you cut the kielbasa and pineapple all you have to do is assemble the bites, mix up the glaze and bake. My boys love helping me in the kitchen so once the knife work is done, we all grab the toothpicks and start making the bites. Since they helped, they also get first dibs on the finished product once it cools down enough to eat. We like to call it quality control.
While these kielbasa bites are great for game day, I like to serve them all year long. At our summer backyard BBQs, for Christmas and New Years, and my husband may have even requested them for a birthday dinner appetizer. There’s really no wrong time to make these Glazed Kielbasa Bites. One bite of their sweet and salty flavor and you’ll be hooked!
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Tools used to make this Glazed Kielbasa Bites recipe
Knives: A good set of kitchen knives is essential for any cook. This set is the best one I’ve owned so far and it comes with a knife block, steak knives, and an array of larger knives perfect for all your slicing, chopping, and cutting needs.
Cutting Board: A good-sized cutting board is a must for home cooks. This board is thick & sturdy and makes recipe prep a breeze.
Mixing Bowl: These mixing bowls are perfect for mixing and serving. I love the varied sizes so I always have to right size bowl for all my mixing needs.
Baking Sheet: A nice big baking sheet is a must have for any kitchen. This half pan sheet is large than a regular cookie and works great for anything you’re baking.
Glazed Kielbasa Bites
Ingredients
- 2 lbs. kielbasa sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
- 14 oz can pineapple slices in juice, quartered
- 3 T teriyaki sauce
- 1 T sweet chili sauce
- 1 T honey
- 1 T pineapple juice from can
Instructions
- preheat oven to 425 degrees
- place a piece of pineapple on top of a slice of kielbasa and stick a toothpick into them
- in a small bowl combine remaining ingredients
- line a baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray
- place kielbasa bites onto the baking sheet
- brush glaze over tops and sides of bites
- place in oven and cook for 15 to 20 min (keeping an eye on them)
- remove and enjoy hot!
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I love these, I didn’t use the sweet chili sauce, I made my own teriyaki sauce and just added Sriracha to i, turned out delish!!
Geez this looks really good! I love sausage and I love Pineapple! Two great tastes that taste great together (so to speak)!
We are having to do our Thanksgiving dinner Monday evening in order to get everyone together, since 2 of my kids have to work Thursday. 🙁 But, I decided to have some leftovers & mainly do appetizers Thursday & that way, each of them can snack as they come & go. These look delicious & I can’t wait to make them. Refreshing idea! Thank you!
These look Delicious! Can’t wait to try them! Thanks so much!
This is going to be my fourth time making these tonight! Oh my gosh, they’re amazing!
I grilled these and they were great little bites to enjoy while waiting for the rest of the meal to grill. Thanks for posting!
Mike
Thanks Mike!
DID YOU PUT TOOTHPICKS IN WATER OVER NIGHT??
No just for about 10 to 20 minutes.
You could always stick the toothpicks in them after you baked them.
Could you make it in a crockpot. Cook them in the oven then travel with them in a crockpot. .
Absolutely!
Oooh, those look and sound good! Bonus – more for me & hubby cuz our daughter refuses to eat pineapple! LOL
That’s my kids too! It was delicious and we had leftovers that heated up really well. 🙂
These look great for a super bowl party. I might add a piece of blanched green pepper in between the sausage and pineapple. I can’t wait to make these !!!
Thanks Bonnie! I bet the green pepper would be fantastic. 🙂
Made these tonight and they were delicious 🙂 Gonna put up a post on my site this week if that is cool. Thank you for the recipe!
That’d be great! Thanks Ali, I’m glad you liked them.
I am going to try this tonight I used to make something like this using spam, my kids loved it. Thank you for sharing.
These look delicious! I grew up in a Polish family so kielbasa was always on the menu especially at holidays! Even today – it’s still the first thing that gets eaten!
That’s awesome! I grew up with my mom making something similar to this when I was growing up and I would gobble them up fast!
. I would love to make these treats, could you please explain what Kielbasas are? I live in South Africa and we don’t have it. Maybe I can use a substitute?
Keilbasa is a polish sausage. I think any sausage would be tasty. It’s very finely ground, but I think a chicken & apple sausage would be good.
You good use hot dogs too, cut into 4 pieces.
Im making these tonight. Did you remove the casing from the kielbasa?
There wasn’t a casing on my kielbasa but either way would be fine.
These Kielbasa bites were so delicious and easy to prepare..Made them ahead of time and then just microwaved as needed ! Thanks 😉
I’m so glad! Don’t you just love make ahead party food?
Now I don’t need to ask my question 🙂 Having our Christmas Party tomorrow night and I made them last year the day of the party but want to save some time this year (although they don’t take much time at all. I’m making them a day early and just heating up as needed. LOVE THEM !
Whenever you can save time you should right! Plus don’t most things taste better the next day anyway!? Thanks for sharing 🙂
Did you heat them in the oven or microwave
when making the kebalsa bites
a day early?
Hey Jo! Yes, you can just reheat them in the microwave.
Wouldn’t it be easier and quicker to just dunk the bites in the glaze?
You could try that Beth. Mine wasn’t deep enough to dunk them. You want the glaze over the top while the bites cook.
I mixed the glaze in a 1 cup measuring cup then dipped the chunks as I held the end of the toothpick. The process worked very well. These snacks are a hit.
I wondered about that too
Hello, the pineapple kielbasas sound wonderful, just wondering what sweet chili sauce you suggest I use?
Thanks Laura! You could use any that you like. I have a few different. As long as it has a bit of spice and the sweet flavor you can’t go wrong. 🙂
You can make your own with jelly any flavor ans stir in red pepper flakes .