Air Fryer Pigs In A Blanket
Make Air Fryer Pigs In A Blanket when you need a quick and easy appetizer for game day, super bowl, or as a quick and easy snack! These crescent roll dogs cook in just 10 minutes or less using your air fryer or Ninja Foodi!
🤔Can You Air Fry Pigs In A Blanket?
While traditionally, pigs in a blanket are baked in the oven, you can use your favorite air fryer to make this easy appetizer or snack!
Pigs in a blanket, also called crescent roll dogs, are small sausages wrapped in dough. The dough is usually crescent roll dough or croissant dough. The sausages get warmed through while the dough gets crispy on the outside.
Pigs in a blanket are an easy appetizer for game day, super bowl parties, or a perfect after-school snack for your kids. It is a great snack idea for any time of the day.
✅Why Make Pigs In A Blanket In The Air Fryer?
- Using an Air Fryer is a great way to avoid adding unhealthy amounts of oil to your diet.
- Foods are cooked in air fryers by circulating hot air and heat, which helps to cook and crisp the food.
- Air fryers typically cook at temperatures as high as 400°F/200°C. Some air fryers can even cook at higher temperatures. That makes preparing food quickly and easily while serving a crowd.
- The air fryer does everything. Once the time is set, just watch the magic happen! Babysitting is not required.
- The best appetizers are those that require minimal effort and are ready in record time. These air fryer pigs on a blanket meet both of those requirements!
🌭Ingredients You’ll Need
- Mini Cocktail Sausages: You can use any brand of mini cocktail sausages such as Lil smokies, great value, Hebrew national, etc.)
- Crescent Roll, canned: You can use any popular brand of crescent rolls, Pillsbury, Aldi, great value, etc.
🔥How To Make Pigs In A Blanket In Air Fryer
1️⃣Preheat the air fryer: Preheat the air fryer to 350F for 3-5 minutes.
2️⃣Prepare the pigs in a blanket: Remove the crescent rolls from the can and roll them out into triangles. Using a sharp knife or a pizza cutter, cut each triangle into three even strips. Take one piece of crescent roll dough and wrap it around the cocktail sausage from beginning to end making sure the seams are on the same side.
3️⃣Air fry the pigs in a blanket: Place the crescent roll wrapped hot dogs into the air fryer seam side down in a single layer with ½ inch of space between them. Air fry for 8 minutes flipping halfway with tongs until nicely golden brown.
4️⃣Remove and serve: Remove and serve with your favorite dipping sauces.
👩🏻🍳Air Fryer Cooking Tips
- Use a pizza cutter or very sharp knife to cut the triangles into 3 pieces.
- While rolling crescent rolls do not need to be a perfect shape as the dough will expand around the hot dog.
- While wrapping around the cocktail sausages, make sure the seam side is down to ensure they stay around the hot dog. To make larger ones cut a full hot dog in half and wrap it with half a triangle.
- Before cooking, preheat your air fryer. Doing this may ensure that the food cooks evenly on the outside without overcooking the inside.
- To avoid food sticking to the air fryer basket, grease it with cooking spray.
- Avoid overcrowding the air fryer. Overcrowding the air fryer makes it difficult for air to flow and adequately cook the food. Ensure that you cook in batches as required.
- It may take a few minutes longer or less time depending on the size of the hot dogs and air fryer. Check periodically to see how brown they are getting.
- To save time, prepare 12 crescent dogs and place them in the air fryer. Prepare the remaining 12 while they are cooking.
- Cook in multiple batches if your air fryer is smaller.
🥣Variations & Serving Suggestions
- You can use regular hot dogs cut into 3 pieces instead of mini cocktail sausages. If using, you would need 8 hot dogs. You can also use different types of hot dogs, vegan, turkey dogs, grass-fed, etc.
- If you can’t find crescent rolls, you can use puff pastry sheets instead. Puff pastry is often bought frozen, so be sure to allow time for thawing. (Or, if you’re feeling fancy, make your own pastry dough.)
- Oven instructions: Assemble the pigs in a blanket and bake for 375F for 15 minutes on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Serving: These are best served warm or at room temperature. Serve with your favorite dipping sauces. Nothing beats nice mustard sauce as a dip. Add dip choices include aioli, barbeque sauce, ranch dressing, honey mustard sauce, ketchup, cheese sauce, and other sauces.
🧊Storage
Storing: Leftover air fryer pigs in a blanket are best served immediately. If you have leftovers, store them in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.
Reheating: You can reheat them in the microwave; however, the best way to reheat pigs in a blanket is for 4-5 minutes in the air fryer preheated air fryer at 180°C/350°F for a crispy texture.
❔FAQ
What dips and sauces work best with pigs in a blanket?
You can use barbecue sauce, ketchup, cheese sauce, ranch dressing, honey mustard sauce, and more.
How do you make pigs in a blanket not soggy?
To avoid sogginess, dry the hot dog or little sausages with a paper towel before wrapping them in crescent dough. This will prevent the pigs in a blanket from becoming soggy and will keep them crispy.
How long to cook frozen pigs in the blanket in the air fryer?
Air Fryer Frozen Pigs In A Blanket usually take about 10 minutes to cook through, depending on the size and the temperature of the air fryer.
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Air Fryer Pigs In A Blanket
Equipment
Ingredients
- 24 Cocktail Sausages
- 8 oz Crescent Roll dough
Instructions
- Preheat the air fryer to 350F for 3-5 minutes.
- Remove the crescent rolls from the can and roll them out into triangles.
- Using a sharp knife or a pizza cutter, cut each triangle into three even strips.
- Take one piece of crescent roll dough and wrap it around the cocktail sausage from beginning to end making sure the seams are on the same side.
- Place the crescent roll wrapped hot dogs into the air fryer seam side down in a single layer with ½ inch of space between them. Air fry for 8 minutes flipping halfway with tongs until nicely golden brown.
- Remove with tongs and serve with your favorite dipping sauces.
