These delicious appetizer recipes are all made on the pellet grill! Fire up your Traeger and get cooking because you can make a meal out of these easy smoked appetizers.
The Best Traeger Appetizer Recipes
Your pellet grill isn’t just for meat and main dishes! You can make everything on the grill from breakfast to dessert and everything in-between. Including a ton of really incredible appetizers.
All of these apps are made right on the grill, and they are perfect for potlucks, parties, cookouts, and BBQs. Whip up one or whip up 10 because everyone is going to be wanting more.
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Traeger Appetizer Recipes
These little mini bites use smoked goat cheese, prosciutto, fresh blueberries, and a balsamic drizzle to make one of the tastiest bites, perfect for your next party, holiday, or potluck!
Throw together this simple dip in 5 minutes, and then let your pellet grill do all the work! Wood fire + seafood is always a winner, and when you throw in some cream cheese & sour cream to the mix? Forget it. You've officially upgraded.
Fire up your smoker because you're going to be getting lots of requests for this one. Buffalo Smoked Cream Cheese is perfect served with celery and carrot sticks and crunchy crackers!
These sweet-and-savory pineapple bites are one of the perfect appetizers for your smoker!
These tasty treats are meat and cheese filled manicotti, wrapped in bacon, and finished off with a spicy-sweet coating to tie it all together.
Want to crack the code of crispy skin on a smoked wing? Fire up your smoked and your air fryer and get going!
Spicy Mexican Shrimp Cocktail is a fun change-up to your typical shrimp cocktail! One of my favorite unique appetizers to serve.
Smoked caramelized onions and roasted garlic are whipped into a homemade dip that's going to knock your socks off!
Tender shredded smoked beef is heaped on top of tortilla chips and loaded with every topping you could possibly want. This all gets finished off in the pellet grill, for the best plate of nachos, maybe ever.
This cheesy twist on a classic artichoke dip takes smoked cream cheese, roasted garlic, and artichokes and gives you this Double Smoked Artichoke Dip!
Bacon-wrapped sausage rounds get stuffed with smoked roasted garlic cream cheese mixed with sharp cheddar. Then it gets smoked and drizzled with a tangy vinegar-based barbecue sauce.
Simple pub cheese that's made with smoked cheese and smoked amber ale!
Make our easy Smoked Cream Cheese Guacamole for your new bbq or party!
Tender smoked beef brisket is cubed and coated in sauce and seasonings before getting slowly caramelized on the grill.
These delicious smoked chicken wings are smoked on the pellet grill before hitting the air fryer, and finally getting sauced with a fragrant garlic parmesan sauce.
These Traeger Bacon Sausage Bites are a perfect appetizer for your next gathering! Salty, smoky, and sweet – these hit alllll the right notes.
These Traeger Smoked Italian Meatballs are smoked for about an hour, and then finished off at 325 until they are done. Packed with Italian flavor, these are great on their own as appetizers, in a meatball sub, or in some smoked meatball marinara.
This delicious chicken and chanterelle crostini are packed full of deep earthy flavor, and are beautiful to serve to even the fanciest of guests.
Our Smoked Buffalo Chicken Dip is an amazing appetizer for any get together! Smoked chicken breast gets shredded, seasoned with buffalo sauce, smoked cream cheese, and all the shredded cheese before hitting the smoker again for the final wood-fired flavor blast.
This delicious whipped goat cheese spread has a honey-sweetened cranberry layer that is perfect for all of your upcoming gatherings!
Easy Smoked Salmon Dip is made with hot smoked salmon, cream cheese, and other common household staples you probably have laying around right now.
This tender Traeger bacon-wrapped shrimp are one of my favorite appetizers for the spring and summer months! Cookouts, potlucks, family gatherings, or just a regularly old day - your family will adore this flavor-packed shrimp appetizer!
These classic jalapeno poppers are smoked on a Traeger wood-pellet grill, and wrapped in bacon to make the traditional popper pop a little more.
These delicious Traeger Grilled Clams are wonderful as an appetizer, or serve with some pasta or rice and make it a meal!
This fresh shrimp ceviche is grilled on the Traeger before being marinated in a classic ceviche mix with lime, onions, tomato, cucumber, and cilantro.
Easy Traegerized Pigs in a Blanket are wrapped in biscuit dough, cooked on the Traeger, and are an easy kid-friendly dinner that is a great option for an easy lunch or dinner.
Simple bacon wrapped scallops are grilled on the Traeger pellet grill until they are crisp, tender, and delicious.
Simple Smoked Sausage Bites feature a variety of sausages browned on a flat top or in a cast iron pan, and then smoked on a pellet grill with barbecue sauce.
Delicious spinach dip pinwheels are made with crescent roll dough and homemade spinach dip! Super easy, extra delicious. You're going to love it!
Traditional deviled eggs get a trip into the pellet grill for the ultimate deviled egg experience.
Traeger Fried Shrimp is crispy, a little spicy, and is such a great change-up from your typical grilled shrimp! Make it as an appetizer for a barbecue or cookout, or make it into a meal and serve with steamed basmati rice.
Easy Smoked Black Cod Dip is a snap to whip together and makes an amazing appetizer for any occasion!
We took big russet potatoes and turned them into delicious smoked loaded potato skins! Salt-rubbed and cooked right in our pellet grill before getting loaded with all of the cheese and bacon one potato can handle.
The TikTok sensation is hitting a grill near you! This smoked cream cheese dip is simple and delicious. You're going to want a slab of this in the fridge pretty much always.
Sweet and tangy and smokey and perfect for dipping! This super easy pellet grill appetizer is perfect for Halloween, or anytime you need a snack.
This is one of the easiest appetizers that you'll ever make, but it tastes like it is SO fancy. Smoked Garlic Goat Cheese is going to make you very popular at your next dinner party.