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Sweet Italian Sausage
Sweet Italian Sausage will give you a classic Italian staple, sweet Italian sausage is a flavorful blend of pork, seasoned with herbs and spices like fennel, garlic, and paprika. Perfect for grilling, sautéing, or adding to pasta dishes, its savory taste adds depth to any recipe. Versatile and delicious, it's a must-have ingredient for authentic Italian cuisine.
Ingredients
- 1 kg Ground Pork Shoulder
- 10 gram Kosher Salt
- 2.0 gram Black Pepper, butcher grind preferred
- 2.0 gram Sugar
- 3.0 gram Fennel Seed, cracked cracked
- 1.0 gram Coriander, broken or ground
- 1.0 gram Caraway Seed
- 90 gram Ice Cold Water
Instructions
- Make sure your meat, and water are ice cold before starting this process, including the bowl you will use to blend. Allowing pork fat to render while mixing the sausage will potentially lead to a dense, possibly tough sausage meat.
- Mix all ingredients together, including the water. Make sure you blend them well, stop blending as quick as possible and put meat back in fridge for 30min to 1hr before use. Cook as normal ensuring the temperature of the ground pork reaches 160℉.
Alternative: Stuffing
- If you are stuffing this sausage as soon as you are done mixing put the blend back into the freezer until almost frozen. Stuff into 32-36mm hog casings or a calogen manufactured casing.
Alternative: Form into patties
- Put sausage back into freezer getting it almost to the freezing point. Pull back out and on a scale weight out 100g balls. Then flatten into the size and shape you would like to have. Freeze patties individually if you would like before sealing them into ziplock backs or vacuum pack bags. Putting parchment paper or wax paper sheets in between each patty to make sure they don't freezer together.
Alternative: Bulk pack
- We tend to take the recipe and make a couple of batches at a time with it. We then freeze them into 500g bags for future use in sauces and pasta dishes.
Alternative: Hotter Sausages
- For Medium Hot Italian Sausage add 2 g (1 tsp) cayenne pepper OR an alternative hot pepper.For Hot Italian Sausage add 4 g (2 tsp) cayenne pepper OR an alternative hot pepper
Alternative: Flavours
- You can add a lot of different flavours into Italian sausages, consider adding Italian spices such as basil, thyme and oregano. Even fresh herbs like parsley or cilantro can be added. Feel the freedome of making these your own.
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Notes
If you enjoy mathing.
(Weight of Spice / 1000) * weight of meat you have = spice amount
So say you have 2lbs of meat, that’s 908g’s and you are figuring out salt.
(10 / 1000) * 908 = 9.08 g’s of salt.
Note On Liquid: Try using something other than water, or a blend of both.
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I got a chance to try this out tonight. I had made up some of the sweet sausage AND the hot, and used a mixture of both to make egg roll in a bowl. It is excellent flavour, and the hot is just a perfect level. Hot enough to wake up your tastebuds but not so hot you can’t enjoy the flavour. I will be making this one again and again!