Best 7 Piggies In Blankies Recipes

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Piggies in blankets, also known as pigs in a blanket or lil' smokies, is a scrumptious appetizer or party snack that combines the savory flavors of sausage and bacon with the soft, flaky texture of crescent roll dough. These bite-sized treats are incredibly easy to make and can be customized to suit your preferences, making them a popular choice for gatherings, parties, or quick and tasty meals. Whether you prefer a classic combination of pork sausage and bacon, or want to try something different with chicken sausage or turkey bacon, there's a piggies in blankets recipe out there for everyone.

Here are our top 7 tried and tested recipes!

PIGS IN A BLANKET



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These baked hot dog sandwiches appeal to kids of all ages. Even my husband, Allan, admits to enjoying every bite! We like to dip them in ketchup and mustard. -Linda Young, Longmont, Colorado

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Dinner

Time 25m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 tube (8 ounces) refrigerated crescent rolls
8 hot dogs
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon water
Caraway seeds

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 375°. Separate crescent dough into triangles. Place hot dogs at wide ends of triangles and roll up. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Combine egg and water; brush over rolls. Sprinkle caraway over tops; press lightly into rolls. , Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

Nutrition Facts :

PIGS IN A BLANKET



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Kids love this one. My mom made it for me as did her mom. If making for a small child, cut the hot dogs into fourths length wise. The cheese is always optional.

Provided by Brandie2134

Categories     Meat and Poultry Recipes     Pork

Time 30m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 3

8 frankfurters
8 slices American processed cheese
1 (10 ounce) package refrigerated biscuit dough

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  • Wrap cheese around each frankfurter then the biscuit around that. Put on cookie sheet with the overlap of biscuit faced down, so you don't have to use tooth picks.
  • Bake in preheated oven until biscuits are brown, about 10 to 15 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 457.7 calories, Carbohydrate 24.8 g, Cholesterol 57.1 mg, Fat 31.8 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 17.1 g, SaturatedFat 14.3 g, Sodium 1760.4 mg, Sugar 5.2 g

PIGS IN BLANKETS



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Provided by Nigella Lawson : Food Network

Categories     appetizer

Time 40m

Yield 50 pieces

Number Of Ingredients 8

2 cups plus 5 tablespoons self-rising flour
1 heaping teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons grated Red Leicester or Cheddar
1 cup whole milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
50 pork cocktail sausages (mini hot dogs)
1 egg, mixed with a splash milk and 1/2 teaspoon salt

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
  • Measure 2 cups of flour into a bowl, add the salt and grated cheese and mix lightly with a fork. Pour the milk into a measuring cup to come up to 1-cup mark and then crack in the egg and add the oil. Beat to combine, then pour into the dry ingredients, forking to mix as you go. You may, at the end, feel the dough's either too dry or too damp: add either more milk or more flour and fork together again until you've got a soft dough that's not too sticky to be rolled out.
  • Break the dough into 2 pieces and roll 1 piece on a lightly floured surface. Scone dough is a dream to work with; in fact, I find it deeply pleasurable. Just roll as clumsily and heavy handedly as you like: no harm will come to it. You want a thin, but not exaggeratedly so, rectangle. A square wouldn't be the end of the world either, so don't start getting out the geometry set: this is the roughest of instructions.
  • Cut the dough into approximately 1 3/4-inch strips, and then cut each strip at approximately 2 1/2-inch intervals so that you end up with a collection of small, raggedy oblongs (I just cut each strip as I go, but it's probably more efficient to do the whole batch of dough at 1 time).
  • Take a cocktail sausage and put it at 1 end of an oblong at a slight diagonal and then roll up, pressing on the infinitely compliant dough to squeeze it shut, and then place on a nonstick baking sheet, or 1 lined with parchment. Carry on until you've finished all your strips and then get to work with the remaining dough. Three baking sheets should do it.
  • Now, dip a pastry brush into the beaten egg mixture and paint on the pastry for a golden glaze. Put in the oven and cook for 12 to 15 minutes, by which time they should be puffy and burnished. Remove from the oven and let cool a little before giving them to the children.

PIGS IN A BLANKET (BLANKIES FROM SCRATCH)



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I have been using this recipe for blanketed piggies since I first came across it almost 15 years ago from either my sister or my grade 9 home economics class. I'm so glad I have it since it's so hard to find a blanket recipe from scratch! I can cover a typical Canadian package of 12 hot dogs with this recipe.

Provided by ReadyForThe80s

Categories     Weeknight

Time 25m

Yield 9-12 Pigs In A Blanket, 9-12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 7

2 cups flour (white or whole wheat)
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine
3/4 cup milk (any type should work)
12 hot dogs or 12 sausage, to be wrapped

Steps:

  • Sift the dry ingredients in a bowl.
  • Mix in the butter/margarine and milk.
  • On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to desired thickness and as wide as the hot dogs to be wrapped are.
  • Wrap the individual hot dogs or sausages in their own blanket.
  • Bake at 425°F for about 10 minutes or until slightly brown.
  • *If you get to the end of the dough, yet still have more hot dogs left without blankets, it's easy just to roll the wrapped hot dogs between your hand and your work surface to make their blanket thinner, that way you can cut off the excess dough off from either side of the hot dog and combine the ends and roll out another strip of blanket. Maybe you'd like to consider adding a bit of cheese inside the blanket for added flavor.

PIGS IN A BLANKET



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For decades, pigs in a blanket have been a staple on the cocktail-party circuit. The little sausages are the easy part. It's the pastry which, at its finest, should approximate buttery, flaky French puff pastry or pâte feuilletée. Suppose you could make decently flaky puff pastry in minutes? Christian Leue, the manager of La Boîte, a spice emporium in New York, has developed just such a marvel. And it works.

Provided by Florence Fabricant

Categories     easy, snack, finger foods, appetizer

Time 3h30m

Yield 48 pieces

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 sticks salted butter, frozen
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for kneading
1/2 cup full-fat sour cream
48 cocktail franks
Flour, for rolling
Mustard, for dipping

Steps:

  • Make the pastry: Cut each stick of frozen butter into four pieces and grate using a shredding disc in a food processor. Change to the regular blade. Add the 1 1/2 cups flour and pulse 15 or 20 times, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the sour cream and pulse until the dough comes together. (This can also be done by hand, using a box grater to shred the butter, working the flour into it with your fingertips or a fork, then mixing in the sour cream.)
  • Turn the dough out on a floured surface and knead briefly to form a smooth ball. Divide the dough in half and flatten each piece. Place each in a zipper-top sandwich bag, press out any air, seal the bag and use a rolling pin to roll the dough until it fills the bag, forming a square. Refrigerate two hours or overnight.
  • Make the pigs in a blanket: Heat a 10-inch skillet, preferably cast-iron, on medium. If your cocktail franks came in a plastic package, pat them dry on paper towels. Place the franks in the pan and cook, turning, frequently, until they're lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from the pan and drain on paper towels. Let cool to room temperature.
  • Remove dough from sandwich bags by cutting the bags and peeling them off. Roll each square of dough on a lightly floured board into a 9-by-12-inch rectangle that is about 1/8-inch thick. Cut each into four 9-by-3-inch strips, then cut each strip crosswise into six 1 1/2-inch sections. You should have 48 rectangles that are each 1 1/2 by 3 inches.
  • Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil.
  • Place a cocktail frank on each piece of dough, across the rectangle so the longer side can be wrapped around the frank. Roll the dough around the frank, moisten the edge with water and press closed. Place each wrapped frank seam side down on the baking sheet.
  • Bake until golden, about 25 minutes. Serve at once or let cool and refrigerate or freeze, then let come to room temperature and warm at 250 degrees for 15 minutes. Serve with mustard alongside for dipping.

PIGS IN THE BLANKET AKA STUFFED CABBAGE



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I started with Mom's recipe and modified it over the 25 years of my marriage. Also I learned a method of rolling the "pigs" from one of Martha Stewart's books.

Provided by Mama Cee Jay

Categories     German

Time 2h30m

Yield 24 cabbage rolls, 10-12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 lbs lean ground beef
1 lb pork sausage
1 1/2 tablespoons garlic salt
1 tablespoon sweet paprika
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 cups white rice, cooked and cooled
1 large cabbage
2 (28 ounce) cans whole canned tomatoes, crushed with a fork
32 ounces chicken broth (organic or homemade is best)
olive oil, to coat roasting pan
salt and pepper

Steps:

  • Wilt head of cabbage in large pot of boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove cabbage from pot, cool slightly and separate leaves, taking care not to break the leaves.
  • Mix ground beef, sausage, cooked rice, garlic salt, paprika and pepper. Form 3 inch balls. Place meatball into cabbage leaf and fold leaf around the ball. Place roll into a large square of cheesecloth, cover and twist ends of the cloth to shape and tighten the roll. Remove cabbage roll and repeat until all filling is used.
  • In a large roasting pan which has been coated with olive oil, place layer of cabbage rolls (folded side down), cover with 1 can of tomatoes, and repeat. Pour chicken broth over the layers.
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cover roasting pan and bake for 2 hours or until until cabbage is tender. Serve with mashed potatoes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 515.6, Fat 22.3, SaturatedFat 8, Cholesterol 91.7, Sodium 902.5, Carbohydrate 45.7, Fiber 6.2, Sugar 8.2, Protein 32.7

PIGS IN A BLANKET MAIN DISH



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This simple recipe uses refrigerated crescent rolls and pre-cooked breakfast links.-Mary Anne McWhirter, Pearland, Texas

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Dinner

Time 20m

Yield 8 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 2

1 tube (8 ounces) refrigerated crescent rolls
1 package (12 ounces) smoked sausage links

Steps:

  • Separate the dough into eight triangles. Place a sausage on wide end of each triangle and roll up. Place, tip down, on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400° for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 240 calories, Fat 18g fat (6g saturated fat), Cholesterol 27mg cholesterol, Sodium 651mg sodium, Carbohydrate 12g carbohydrate (3g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 7g protein.

Tips:

  • Select high-quality ingredients: Use fresh, flavorful ingredients to ensure your piggies in blankets are delicious. Look for high-quality sausages, flaky crescent roll dough, and creamy cheese.
  • Brown the sausages before wrapping: This step adds extra flavor and helps prevent the sausages from becoming dry.
  • Use a sharp knife to cut the crescent roll dough: This will help create clean, even cuts that won't tear the dough.
  • Tuck the edges of the dough around the sausages: This will help seal in the cheese and prevent it from leaking out.
  • Bake the piggies in blankets until golden brown: This will ensure that the dough is cooked through and the sausages are heated.
  • Serve with your favorite dipping sauce: Some popular options include ketchup, mustard, or ranch dressing.

Conclusion:

Piggies in blankets are a quick and easy appetizer or snack that is perfect for any occasion. They are delicious, portable, and can be customized to your liking. By following these tips, you can make the best piggies in blankets that your friends and family will love. Whether you are hosting a party, having a game night, or just looking for a tasty snack, piggies in blankets are a great option that is sure to please everyone.

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