You can make this BBQ kielbasa in your slow cooker for a delicious party appetizer. Every year when I make it for the Big Game, it vanishes. Although the components sound like something a kid might mix together, the food actually tastes fantastic. Given that this is an appetizer, the number of people it can serve depends on how many football enthusiasts you have.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 10 mins |
| Servings: | 32 |
Ingredients
- 4 pounds kielbasa (Polish) sausage (such as Hillshire Farm®), cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1 (18 ounce) jar grape jelly
- 2 (18 ounce) bottles barbeque sauce
Instructions
- Place kielbasa into a slow cooker. Add grape jelly and barbeque sauce.
- Cook on Medium until hot, about 2 hours.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 262 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| Cholesterol | 38 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 7 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 866 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is the best! Who needs football, I make this whenever I want.
Awesome!!! Everyone loved it!
delicious recipe, I used it for meatballs as well.
AweSOME!!! Before it’s Even DONE!!! 🙂
YUMMY! This was very easy to put together and worthy of 5 stars! Thank you for sharing!
So so yummy! Thank you for this insanely easy recipe.
Easy to make, and it tasted good. Although, I should note that I added a diced bell pepper and served it over white rice.
You need to do better than Hillshire Farms or Smokies. There are so many good Polish sausages around made by your neighbors perhaps. Try looking. Otherwise, this is a good recipe because even the kids like it.
This is such a fast recipe to take to a potluck or party. I have made it with sausage, little smokies, or meatballs. I have made it as listed here with BBQ and grape jelly, also with the Heinz chili sauce and grape jelly, and with BBQ sauce and Pepsi. I actually prefer the equal parts Pepsi and BBQ sauce on meatballs. Any of the three ways you make it, it is always devoured.
Easy and yummy! Make with either sausage or little smokies.
Always a hit!
This is a really good dish I did these for my Super Bowl party and they were a big hit. I did one pot with sausage and another with meatballs and they both went FAST!!
This was so easy! I happened to have all the ingredients, although I used cut up smoked sausage. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out but it was great. I also added a little hot sauce for more of a kick. Good to make when you have smoked sausage and you’re tired of doing the same old things with it. I rarely make “appetizer” type foods but this is definitely a new go-to! I also did not make this in a crock pot, I just cooked it in a pot (about 45 minutes on low-med, and then at medium for another 20 minutes or so). It came out great that way too!
This was super easy and super good! Everyone went back for seconds and some went back for thirds. This will be a large gathering staple for us from now on.
This is what I’d been looking for! I tried the “Sweet and Oh So Spicy” recipe on this site and it was too spicy for what I wanted. This is perfect. I added cherries and pineapple, ccoked in my crock for several hours then kept warm until it was time to eat.
my grandmother used to make these every family get-together. but instead of bbq sauce she used Heinz chili sauce. its by the cocktail sauce in the supermarket. usually i just add a little red pepper flakes and its amazing.
this recipe works great with mini meatballs as well
The sauce was good and it went well on the little smokies (I used smokies instead of kielbasa, just because I had some little smokies I wanted to get rid of!) and it was good. The sauce was a little thin – I think next time I’ll take the lid off for the last half hour of cooking so it can thicken up.
Great! Added 2 tbsp brown sugar and a bit of Worchestershire sauce. Yummy!
My family loved this recipe. I used the Hillshire Farms Turkey Kielbasa and threw in fresh peppers. I made this for dinner and served it over rice and they finished it off! Excellent and simple recipe.
This has been around for a long time. Always a great treat for any event. Everyone will love it and ask for the recipe.