As promised in my Porkapalooza V invite, I have been experimenting with making homemade sausage. Today I made Spicy Chipotle and Cheese sausages and smoked them on my cabinet smoker for a few hours. They were very good! Tender, tasty and fresh!
Hopefully with this success I can start to make sausage more often. It’s a great use of the meat grinder and sausage stuffer Amanda got me for Christmas.
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- Mix Together Sausage Seasonings (in this case Chipotle peppers, garlic, onion, parsley, romano cheese, pepper, paprika)
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- Cut 3-5 pound pork shoulder into 1 inch thick pieces
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- Cut meat into 1 inch cubes and freeze for 30 minutes
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- Grind meat into bowl with seasonings
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- Mix everything together thoroughly
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- Run through meat grinder a second time
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- Beautiful Sausage filling
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- Run water through natural casings after soaking for 30-45 minutes
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- Tie off end of casing and start stuffing!
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- Wrap around in a circle and start making links
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- Twist off links in 5 inch increments, alternate direction of twisting with each link
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- Smoke on indirect heat for 1-3 hours until a pink smoke ring forms and sausage is cooked thoroughly. Finish in the oven if needed.
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- Enjoy the beautiful sausage!
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Wow, Jeff….I am super impressed!!! Can’t wait to try some of these next weekend at Porkapalooza!! Will you also have pulled pork shoulder too???
They were wonderful!