Chicken Apple Sausage Breakfast Hot Dogs

This is a recipe for Chicken Apple Sausage Hot Dogs that appeared on an Ina Garten episode for an outdoor grilling brunch party. Chicken and apple sausages are drizzled with an amazing mayo and mustard dressing that makes this a delicious chicken hot dog brunch idea.

Breakfast hot dogs.  Awhile back I watched Ina Garten putting on Sunday brunch outdoor extravaganza grilling party and promptly bookmarked her chicken sausage breakfast hotdogs to try soon.

I couldn’t think of a better time to give this a try than the beginning of grilling season, a Memorial Day grill-a-thon. First I made and served these up with some spicy country fried potatoes, which I pan cooked before I cooked the sausages and covered in foil to keep them warm.

Meanwhile out on the grill were the sizzling apple flavored chicken sausages waiting to be drizzled with the star of this meal…Ina’s Mustard and Mayo sauce . It’s a luxurious white creamy mayo, sour cream mixture with a hint of tangy mustard. This sauce would make a shoe taste good. On a beautiful sunny Memorial Day morning was a perfect holiday meal. And an easy one at that because the brand of chicken sausages I used are pre-cooked. All they need is a good browning to heat through.

There are so many chicken sausage flavor combinations for us to experiment with these days. Whole Foods carries a nice variety and right now, Costco sells Sabatino’s Chicken Apple Sausage and Smoked Mozzarella with Artichoke and Garlic Chicken Sausage. I always try to pick up these different flavor combinations to experiment with, and we’re loving the Chicken Apple most. A nice flavor combo for our liking. And they’re pre-cooked which makes them an easy meal option, they brown up nice with some impressive grill marks, and they’re low-sugar, gluten-free, nitrite-free and relatively low in fat.

The sauce for these sausage dogs calls for sour cream, so before I share the recipe, let’s talk about that. A couple of months ago when posting a recipe that included sour cream, I received an email from Cathy over at Noble Pig saying  “all sour creams are  not created equal”.  Hmm…never really thought about it. She continued that she always buys the high quality Tillamook brand.  I did indeed buy Tillamook and the difference between it and the run of  the mill product from Safeway was  like night and day …and only for about a dollar more. It had a consistency comparable to Greek Yogurt and a creamy richer flavor that was simply divine.

My advice … spend the extra buck or two for quality. It will make a difference in your recipes. Not to mention that baked potato = ohmy.

Disclaimer: Sabatinos and Tillamook probably don’t know I’m alive and they have never paid me or given me samples to write about their products. Ok, with that said, back to the breakfast.

Looking to host a grilled brunch party, these chicken sausages are an easy way to go. Serve them with:

• A big beautiful pitcher of fresh orange juice
• A bowl of creamy scrambled eggs with rosemary and capers
• Spicy Country Potatoes
• Smoked Salmon and Cheese plate
• Fruit Salad or a Fruit Trifle
• Grilled French Toast Kabobs

Recipe for Chicken Apple Sausage Breakfast Hotdogs

If you’re looking for chicken apple sausage recipes, I hope you give this one a try.  And if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating. Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes. And if you have a favorite grilled sausage recipe, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.

If you’re looking for more unique hot dog recipes, you won’t want to miss my copy-cat Coors Field Taco Dog. It’s a fun one.

And if you’re interested in more breakfast grilling recipe ideas, take a look at this recipe for Zesty Grilled Ham.

Feeling adventurous? Serve these breakfast sausage hot dogs topped with a poached egg.

Ina’s Chicken Apple Sausage Hot Dogs…They’re What’s For Breakfast.

** this is an updated post from June of 2010. Same great recipe, with updated and much better photos.