Make my own sausage?!
Make my own sausage?
I want to make my own sausage....preferably sweet Italian. How do I do this (recipe?) and what tools will I need besides a sausage grinder and casings?
Answers:
A good food processor and some patience is all you really need to make sausage patties. If you want to make link sausage, then you will also need a sausage stuffing machine and casings.
Italian Sausage Recipe
2 Boston pork butts, skinned, boned, and cut into small chunks (including fat), weighing 6 pounds after trimming
1-1/2 tablespoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 C. brown sugar
5 tablespoons minced broadleaf parsley
1/2 cup grated Asiago cheese
4 tablespoons crushed fennel seeds
3 garlic cloves, minced
PREPARATION:
Crisp fennel seeds in a pan in a preheated 325-degree F. oven for 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine pork, salt, pepper, red pepper, brown sugar, parsley, Asiago cheese, fennel seeds, and garlic.
Thoroughly blend with your hands. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight for flavors to meld.
Put seasoned pork chunks through medium plate of a food chopper. Place in a large bowl and mix thoroughly to evenly distribute seasonings. Fry a sample patty in melted butter to test for proper seasoning.
All sausages can be prepared as patties (the easiest and many think the most flavorful method of preparation), or run through a sausage-stuffer into hog casings, then frozen. All food choppers or grinders come with sausage-stuffing instructions.