These Sausage Skewers Appetizers are made with sausage, red onion, limes, skewers and drenched in a garlic chili sauce.
Making sausage and lime skewers is great for when you have people over for a barbecue. All you really need are the three ingredients: onion, lime, and sausage. Using the homemade sauce is completely optional, but totally amazing for maximum flavor. Charring the lime on the grill actually makes the skin edible.
If you love pork recipes, feel free to try my Sausage and Mushroom Casserole or my Sausage and Peppers recipe.
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Ingredients
You'll only need a few simple ingredients to make this. The exact measurements are listed in the recipe card below. Here's an overview of what you'll need:
- Italian sausage
- Red onion
- Limes
- Skewers
- Fresno peppers
- Garlic
- Sugar
- White vinegar
See recipe card for Sausage Skewers Appetizers quantities.
Instructions
For the sauce: add the peppers, garlic, sugar, vinegar into a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Pour the mixture into a small pot and simmer for 10 minutes. Let cool and salt and pepper to taste.
Soak 10 8-inch skewers in water for about 15 minutes. Preheat the grill to medium high.
Thread the sausage, lime, and onion, alternating them.
When you finished threading all 10 skewers, using a basting brush and brush the homemade garlic chili sauce onto the skewers.
Grill the skewers and keep turning, until they char, about 10 minutes, flipping once halfway.
Squeeze lime onto the skewers if desired, and enjoy!
Hint: For the sauce, you could use garlic sriracha instead.
Substitutions
Sausage: I used Premio sausage for this recipe, and combined them to be hot and sweet sausage. You can mix and match anyway you would like.
Limes: I love adding grilled limes because you can take them out and squeeze onto the sausage. It is so delicious.
Chili sauce: I made a homemade chili sauce for this recipe, although if you prefer, you can use the Garlic Chili Sriracha sauce from the grocery store.
Onion: I used red onion, although you can opt to using white or yellow onion if you prefer.
Variations
Cooking is a chance to be creative! Have fun with it and feel free to make your own variation.
- Spicy - add chili pepper flakes in the sauce before basting.
- Deluxe - serve with Tzatziki dipping sauce.
- Kid friendly - serve on hot dog bun.
Check out this Air Fried Bok Choy for a good side dish.
Equipment
Equipment can have a big impact on how a recipe turns out. Stone bakeware takes longer to heat up than metal pans, and also retain heat for longer, which could make the recipe more watery, or burnt on the outsides.
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Storage
This will be good in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
These Sausage Skewers Appetizers ingredients don't stand up well to freezing.
Top tip
Soak the skewers before threading to prevent splinters.
Sausage Skewers Appetizers
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
Description
This Sausage Skewers Appetizers is great when you have people over for a barbecue. All you really need are the three ingredients: onion, lime, and sausage. Charring the lime on the grill actually makes the skin edible!
Ingredients
Sausage and lime skewers
- 2 lbs of sausage, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 large red onion, cut into chunks
- 5 limes, quartered
- 10 8-inch skewers
Sauce
- 4 ounces spicy fresno peppers (take out the seeds)
- 4 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- For the sauce: add the peppers, garlic, sugar, vinegar into a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Pour the mixture into a small pot and simmer for 10 minutes. Let cool and salt and pepper to taste.
- Soak 10 8-inch skewers in water for about 15 minutes. Preheat the grill to medium high.
- Thread the sausage, lime, and onion, alternating them.
- When you finished threading all 10 skewers, using a basting brush, brush the homemade garlic chili sauce onto the skewers.
- Grill the skewers and keep turning, until they char, about 10 minutes.
- Squeeze lime onto the skewers if desired, and enjoy!
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Grilling
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 69.2
- Sugar: 3.0 g
- Sodium: 315.6 mg
- Fat: 3.0 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 5.4 g
- Fiber: 0.9 g
- Protein: 5.1 g
- Cholesterol: 20.4 mg
Food safety
- Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
- Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
- Wash hands after touching raw meat
- Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
- Never leave cooking food unattended
- Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
- Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
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