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Polish Pigs in a Blanket
with Dill Slaw Salad
4 tablespoons EVOO – Extra Virgin Olive Oil, divided, plus additional for drizzling
2 pre-cooked kielbasa (about 1 pound each), each cut into 2 pieces about 8 inches long
1 large onion, thinly sliced
1/4 cup spicy mustard
4 tablespoons white or cider vinegar, divided
Salt and ground black pepper
1 tube refrigerated pizza dough
1 cup shredded yellow or Cotswold cheddar cheese
Caraway seeds, to garnish
Coarse salt, to garnish
1 tablespoon chopped dill
1 tablespoon honey
3 cups shredded slaw mix
Yields: 4 servings

Preheat oven to 400ºF.
Place a large skillet over medium-high heat with 1 turn of the pan of EVOO, about 1 tablespoon. While the pan is heating up, cut a slit in each of the kielbasa pieces so that you can open them up like a book. Place them cut side down into the pan and cook until they crisp up, 4-5 minutes (you'll have to do this in batches).

While the kielbasa are crisping up, place a medium-size skillet over medium-high heat with 1 turn of the pan of EVOO, about 1 tablespoon. Add the onion, mustard and about 2 tablespoons of vinegar to the pan with some salt and pepper. Cook the onion until tender, 5-6 minutes.

With your kielbasa crisped and onions ready, dust your counter with some flour and roll out the pizza dough so that it's a couple of inches larger than its original dimensions. Cut the dough into quarters by slicing it first widthwise, then lengthwise. On one quarter of dough, lay a piece of kielbasa cut-side-up across it on a diagonal. Stuff the kielbasa with some of the cooked onions and a handful of shredded cheese. Pull the two free corners of the dough square around the kielbasa to wrap it up then transfer it to a baking sheet. Repeat this process until you've wrapped of your kielbasa.

Drizzle each roll-up lightly with EVOO and sprinkle the tops with some caraway seeds and coarse salt. Bake them until golden brown, 15-18 minutes.
When the roll-ups are almost done baking, prepare a salad to go along with them by whisking together the remaining vinegar and EVOO, dill and honey in a salad bowl. Season the dressing with salt and pepper, add in the slaw mix and give it a good toss.

Serve each person one pig in a blanket with some slaw salad alongside.
Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
~Dave Barry
Cook's Illustrated conducted blind taste testings of vanillas, and the staff was surprised to find that, in baked goods, expensive, aromatic vanillas performed almost exactly the same as the cheaper brands of real vanilla. The differences virtually disappeared during cooking.

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