Oven baked Candied Kielbasa recipe made with brown sugar and ketchup that your family is going to love! This recipe is so easy and deliciously sweet! Serve candied kielbasa over rice or noodles for a full meal or as a appetizer for a potluck or game day.
Candied Kielbasa
How good is this sweet candied kielbasa sausage? It’s so good that my 3 year old was sneaking pieces straight out of the baking dish before it was even on her plate!
I’m just going to warn you. This candied kielbasa is addictive! What’s not to love about kielbasa, baked in the oven until caramelized and crispy, covered in a sweet sauce made with ketchup and brown sugar?
The dish is quick to prepare. Just throw it all in a baking dish, give it a stir and pop it in the oven! Once it’s ready, you can serve as a main course or appetizer. It’s always a hit at potlucks!
Want to have this for dinner? We always have it as a main course, served over white rice – the extra sauce is a bonus for pouring on top of the rice!
Looking for more of our favorite kielbasa recipes? Try my Crockpot Sweet and Sour Kielbasa, Kielbasa Potato and Green Bean Casserole and Slow Cooker Kielbasa and Cabbage too!
Ingredients
You only need 4 ingredients for this candied kielbasa.
- kielbasa sausage, cut up into pieces
- brown sugar
- ketchup
- horseradish (note: I definitely recommend it with horseradish to balance everything out. My husband couldn’t even guess there was horseradish in the sauce! If you don’t have it, I give a replacement suggestion below).
Don’t have horseradish?
You can substitute the horseradish with ¼ cup barbecue sauce and a dash of lemon juice.
How to Make Candied Kielbasa in the Oven
Spray a 8×8 baking dish with nonstick spray. Add slices of kielbasa into the baking dish.
Add brown sugar, ketchup and horseradish into the baking dish.
Mix to fully combine the ingredients together.
Bake in the oven, stirring every 30 minutes, until fully caramelized and crispy. This takes between 70-90 minutes depending on how thin the kielbasa is cut. Ours usually takes 90 minutes.
Serve over white rice, egg noodles or other pasta of your choice for a complete meal, or you can serve as a party appetizer!
Want to make it in the crockpot?
Although I prefer this baked in the oven as it’s more “candied” you can easily make this in the crockpot too.
Combine brown sugar, ketchup and horseradish in the crockpot. Add the sausage, and mix well. Cook on HIGH until it starts to boil. Reduce heat to LOW, cooking until the sauce thickens – about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Storing Leftovers and Freezing
Store leftovers in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
This candied kielbasa freezes amazing! Sometimes I make it just to freeze it for a quick weeknight meal. Allow it to cool down and then place in a freezer bag or freezer safe container. Freeze up to 3 months. When ready to serve, I defrost it in the microwave and then heat up on the stove.
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Candied Kielbasa (baked in the oven)
PrintIngredients
- 2 pounds kielbasa sausage sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup ketchup
- ¼ cup prepared horseradish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 8×8 baking dish with nonstick spray.
- Add kielbasa, brown sugar, ketchup and horseradish to the baking dish, stirring to fully combine.
- Bake for 90 minutes, making sure to stir every 30 minutes. Pull it from the oven when it achieves the darkness/crispness you like, usually this is somewhere between 70-90 minutes. Serve over white rice, egg noodles or other pasta of your choice for a complete meal.
TraceyB6016 says
This kielbasa is absolutely amazing! I follow it exactly and it’s a family favorite. I also halve it for just two of us. I have also added some stone ground mustard to it bc we love mustard too!! Very easy to make on a busy weekday night or make it for potluck. It’s always a hit and ppl ask for the recipe.
Pamela Reed says
So happy to hear that, especially that it’s become a family favorite! Love the mustard addition too, yum! Thanks for sharing! 😊
Gina C says
Made this for my annual Christmas party. I was nervous about amount of sugar so did half a cup. No horseradish so used sweet baby rays bbq sauce with a handful of dashes of hot sauce, probably a Tblsp. Baked per instructions. Put the dish out, turned around and it was empty! lol. Everyone loved it. I’m making it again for Christmas Eve! Thank you so much for this great recipe.
Corey says
Can you make this in a crockpot? Or at least after it’s cooked would it be fine in a crockpot? Thinking this might be a good Super Bowl food item!
Pamela Reed says
You can absolutely keep it warm in the crockpot. Check out my crockpot sweet and sour kielbasa too, another party fav: https://brooklynfarmgirl.com/crockpot-sweet-and-sour-kielbasa/
Corey says
Thank you so much! I’ll def check this out too!!!