Easy Appetizers - Bacon-Wrapped Sausage

Here in the UK Bacon wrapped around Sausages are part of a traditional Sunday Lunch and Christmas Day Lunch fayre, they also make a great quick and easy appetizer when not being served as part of a main meal! Although they can be purchased already made up, they are very simple to make at home.

The first ingredient that you will need to purchase are sausages. You could of course make your own sausages, but with so many varieties available and at such a reasonable cost there isn't as many benefits to this as there used to be. If you want something a little more special speak with your local butcher, as they may be able to customise some sausages for you.

What sort of sausages you get is up to you. Many people prefer Chipolata sausages, as they are thin and there are those who prefer cocktail sausages (cocktail wieners), but the choice is yours. If you are making them as an Appetizer then remember that smaller is better as they are easier to pick up and eat.

The second ingredient that you will need to purchase is bacon. There is of course a variety of different bacon types that you could use, and again it comes down to a person choice but for a more pleasing look a streaky rasher or strip is the one I would suggest.

There are two ideas to what to do with the sausages, some people believe that they should be quickly fried to give some colour to the sausages and to seal the juices in before the longer baking time. Others feel that the sausages look better with the contrast between the colour under the bacon when they are bitten into.

Take one sausage and wrap around one slice or rasher of bacon around the sausage. Try to keep it neat so that it looks pretty! If you have cooked the sausages to give them some colour then you need to wait until they have cooled before you wrap them, or you will burn your fingers!

When you have wrapped all the sausages in bacon you need to place them on a lightly greased baking tray and then roast them in a preheated over for twenty five to thirty minutes at gas mark 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4.

Now simply serve and enjoy!