BARBECUE SAUSAGE BITES

This slow-cooked appetizer pairs tangy pineapple with sweet barbecue sauce and three kinds of sausage. It’ll tide over even the biggest appetites until dinner.

—Rebekah Randolph, Greer, SC

Prep: 10 min. Cook: 2 ½ hours Makes: 14 servings

• 1 pkg. (16 oz.) miniature smoked sausages
• ¾ lb. fully cooked bratwurst links, cut into ½-in. slices
• ¾ lb. smoked kielbasa or Polish sausage, cut into ½-in. slices
• 1 bottle (18 oz.) barbecue sauce
• ⅔ cup orange marmalade
• ½ tsp. ground mustard
• ⅛ tsp. ground allspice
• 1 can (20 oz.) pineapple chunks, drained

1. In a 3-qt. slow cooker, combine the sausages. In a small bowl, whisk the barbecue sauce, marmalade, mustard and allspice. Pour over sausage mixture; stir to coat.

2. Cover and cook on high until heated through, 2 ½-3 hours. Stir in pineapple. Serve with toothpicks.

1 serving: 327 cal., 22g fat (8g sat. fat), 53mg chol., 980mg sod., 20g carb. (19g sugars, 1g fiber), 11g pro.