Homemade spicy sausages
An adventurous recipe, which shows you how to make your own spicy pork sausages. Pork, pork fat and numerous seasonings are used to stuff natural sausage casings. Use these sausages as you would with shop-bought sausages.
Ingredients
Serves: 24
- 1.35m large sausage casing, about 5 to 7.5cm wide
- 1.8kg lean pork meat
- 900g pork fat
- 4 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 tablespoon ground paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed bay leaf
- 1/4 teaspoon dried sage
- 5 teaspoons hickory-flavoured liquid smoke
Method
Prep:1hr ›
Cook:15min ›
Ready in:1hr15min
- Soak the casing in cold water for about an hour to soften it and loosen the salt in which it is packed. Place the wide end of the sausage stuffer up against tap and run cold water through the inside of the casing to remove excess salt.
- Cut the meat and fat into 1.25cm wide chunks. Pass them once through the coarse blade of a meat grinder. In a large bowl, mix together the minced pork and fat with the garlic, salt, pepper, cayenne, thyme, paprika, bay leaf, sage and hickory smoke. A wooden spoon works well.
- Cut the casing into 65cm lengths and tie a small knot in one end of each. Fit the open end over the tip of the sausage stuffer and slide it on until the tip of the stuffer touches the knot. The casing will look like accordion folds. This keeps excess air from getting into the casings. Fit the stuffer onto the meat grinder or according the directions that come with the stuffer or hold the wide end of the stuffer against or over the opening by hand.
- Fill the hopper with the sausage mixture. Turn the machine on if it is electric and feed the stuffing gradually into the hopper; for a manual machine, push the stuffing through with a wooden pestle. The sausage casing will fill and inflate gradually. Stop filling about 3cm from the funnel end and slip the casing off the funnel, smoothing out any bumps carefully with your fingers and being careful not to push the stuffing out of the casing. Tie off the open end of the sausage tightly with a piece of string or make a knot in the casing itself.
- To cook, slice the sausage into 1.25cm rounds and grill in a hot frying pan with no water for about 12 minutes on each side or until brown and crisp at the edges.
Ingredients
Sausage casings can be found at your local butchers. Liquid smoke can be purchased online or in speciality shops.
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Instead of using the casings to make sausage, I bought a plastic hamburg maker ($4) and make sausage patties.It's a lot easier to deal with than the casings are! I think casings are more "tradition" than useful, now with refrigeration as it is today! I discouvered for the most part, I remove the casings when I use sausage anyhow... It's also easier for making sandwiches! Good Recipe!' ciao - 13 Apr 2004 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Fabulous taste...I have a tip for the casings...rinse well and soak them overnight in cold water with 2 cut up oranges (lemons are too acidic and will creates holes in casings)in refigerator. Next day drain and rinse well. My Italian family has been doing this for many, many years making soppressata. It removes that icky intestine odor and makes they whiter also - 11 May 2008 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
When I read the ingredients for this recipe, I could almost taste it! It was a delicious recipe. I did make mine smaller to be able to put them in a roll for a sandwich and on the grill they are PHENOMENAL! This is a 'MUST HAVE' recipe for your list of sausages to make. The liquid smoke gave it a wonderful smokey taste without the smoker. - 09 Mar 2003 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)