Halloween is a fun holiday that provides an excellent excuse for friends and family to host spooky parties and get-togethers. If you’re planning a Halloween event, it’s a fun idea to theme the food after monsters, spiders and other creepy things. You can also bring Halloween-themed food if you’re attending a party as a guest. Everyone will get a good laugh out of your funky creations.
If you need some inspiration for side dishes, look no further. This article is packed full of Halloween food recipes centered around our favorite ingredient, sausage!
1. Spooky Sausage Mummies
Sausage mummies are a simple Halloween party food that everyone will love snacking on. This spooky take on pigs in a blanket is a perfect party appetizer. All you need is shortcrust pastry, an egg and your favorite sausage. We recommend Premio Sweet Italian Sausage, which is made with no fillers, MSG, gluten or preservatives.
Start by cutting the pastry into long, thin strips. These will form the mummy’s bandages. Next, take an uncooked sausage and wrap one strip around it, making sure to leave room at the top for the face. Grab another strip of pastry, but wrap this one around the sausage in the opposite direction. Once you’re done, brush each one lightly with beaten egg and bake for 20-25 minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now comes the fun part! To create the eyes for your sausage mummies, combine mustard powder with water and pipe the mixture onto the sausage’s face. Cream cheese also works, or you can buy premade edible eyeballs from any baking store.
2. Sausage Stuffed Jack-O’-Lantern Peppers
Carving pumpkins is a beloved Halloween tradition. That’s why we recommend making these sausage-stuffed jack-o’-lantern peppers for your Halloween party. They look like the real deal, just smaller and tastier! Plus, they’re much easier to travel with than a full-sized pumpkin.
To make them, start by cutting the tops off orange bell peppers. Remove the seeds and use a small knife to cut little triangle eyes and a mouth. Cook these on a lightly greased pan for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. For the filling, saute mushrooms, onions, Premio Sweet Italian Sausage, red pepper flakes and Italian seasoning until cooked. Add some roasted red pepper sauce and cooked rice to complete the filling. Fill each pepper with the mixture and place the tops back on to form your jack-o-lantern side dish!
3. Eyeball Sausage Pizza
An easy Halloween food idea is eyeball pizza. It’s exactly as it sounds — eyeballs as a pizza topping! If you’re low on time, you can buy a frozen or takeaway pizza. However, your guests will love the extra effort you put into making one of our many delicious sausage pizza recipes.
You’ll need mozzarella or another light-colored cheese, thinly sliced sausage and black olives to make some edible eyes. Cut the cheese into circles for the base of the eye. Thinly slice your sausage to create the irises, and slice the olives for the pupils. Assemble them by putting the sausage on the cheese and the olive on top. Your pizza should now be staring back at you!
4. Graveyard Sausage Taco Dip
If you’re looking for Halloween party food that looks great as part of a table spread, try this Halloween graveyard sausage taco dip. It’s delicious and fun to look at, with its spooky gravestone-shaped tortilla chips and spring onion greenery. It’s quick and easy to make, too!
The first step to building your own is to remove your Premio Hot Italian Sausage from its casings and cook it in a skillet until cooked and crumbled. Then, mix taco seasoning and sour cream and create a simple guacamole-like layer with avocado, mayo and minced garlic. Add some refried beans to the cooked sausage and layer it on the bottom of a glass dish. Add the sour cream mixture on top, followed by the avocado mixture and a layer of salsa. Chill the dish in the fridge for an hour.
To make the adorable tortilla chip decorations, cut out gravestone shapes from a large flour tortilla. You can also get creative and cut out ghosts, trees or a spooky cat. Bake them until they’re firm and browned, and add them to your taco dip. Sprinkle with chopped spring onions, and serve.
Extra Halloween Food Inspiration
Here are a few more creative ideas for Halloween-themed side dishes:
- Mini spiderweb pizzas: Serve adorable spooky spiderweb mini pizzas at your Halloween party. All you need is some premade mini pizzas, cheese and black olives. Cut the cheese into thin strips and arrange them on the pizza in a web pattern. Cut an olive in half for the spider’s body and arrange thinner olive slices beneath it for the legs. Add sausage for an extra protein boost.
- Meatball rats: If you’re making meatballs, turn them into little rats! Use slices of carrots for the ears, pretzel sticks for the tails, uncooked spaghetti for the whiskers and peas for the eyes. This Parmesan sausage meatball recipe is perfect for this idea, and it’s simple enough for kids to make with you.
- Severed toes and fingers: An easy way to turn any sausage dish into a Halloween treat is to make the sausages into severed fingers and toes. It’s easy — cut the sausages in half and place cuts where the knuckles should be. Carve out a spot at the end so you can add a slice of onion for the nail. Serve them with red dipping sauce or stick them out of a bowl of sausage pasta.
- Eyeball pasta: Another dish you can add eyeballs to is pasta. Try out this spaghetti bolognese recipe, but swap out the pasta for green spinach pasta. To create the eyeballs, cut thin slices from a mozzarella stick. Use a straw to cut small circles out of a black olive, and use the straw again to create a hole in the cheese for the olive to sit. Assemble and add all over the pasta!
Use Only the Finest Italian Sausages From Premio Foods
Ready to make your own Halloween party dishes? Find Premio Foods sausages in a store near you to purchase our gourmet Italian sausage. We’ve been making our sausages for more than 40 years with the freshest herbs, cheeses and butcher-quality meats. That’s the way sausage should be.
You can choose from traditional Italian varieties like Mild Italian Sausage or Sweet Luganiga Sausage. We also sell world sausage flavors like chorizo and andouille. For a healthier alternative, choose our chicken sausages, which have 60% less fat than USDA data for pork and beef sausage.
