Sausage Recipes

Italian Sausage Recipes

As a group these sausages are my favourites. I kind of always thought that Italians loved garlic but it's not in any of these recipes. Cracked fennel is though--it's got a licorice tang to it and it might be an acquired taste but it really makes the sausage. Cracked fennel can be a hard spice to buy so just buy whole fennel, wrap it in a clean tea towel or something like that and pound it with a tenderising hammer. Voila, cracked fennel-by far the noisiest thing you will do while sausaging making except maybe for the squeal of delight when you sampe what you've made.

 All recipes are for 5 Ibs of ground meat. All are 100 % pork except Knockwurst

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Sweet Italian

Simple but excellent recipe

1 tbsp salt

1 cup ice water

1/2 tbsp cracked fennel

1 tsp coarse black pepper

1.5 tsp sugar

Mild Italian

Just a little heat

1 tbsp salt

1 cup ice water

1.5 tsp cracked fennel

1.5 tsp sugar

1.5 tsp crushed chilies

1/2 tsp caraway seed

1.5 tsp coriander

Hot Italian

Just a little more heat --easily tolerable by most people

1 tbsp salt

1 cup of ice water

1.5 tsp cracked fennel

1.5 tsp sugar

1 tbsp crushed chillies

.5 tsp caraway seed

11/2 tsp coriander

Breakfast Sausage

You should use sheep casings for these sausages because they are smaller. Sheep casings are more expensive and a little harder to find. The green 29mm 32mm size hog casing is a little big but still ok. Depends on how much of a purist you are. If you don't want to use casings at all, you can make sausage patties.

Probably everybody's favourite kind of sausage--If you want something really special for a holiday weekend or special breakfast, these sausages will get rave reviews.

English Breakfast

1 tbsp salt

1 cup ice water

1 tsp white pepper

1/2 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp sage

1/2 tsp mace

3 oz bread crumbs (do not skip--lightens up sausage)

Irish Breakfast

This one has garlic which is a little surprising to me but still a great sausage

1 tbsp salt

2 cups of ice water

3 oz bread crumbs

4 eggs lightly beaten

1 oz  minced garlic or whole garlic crushed

1 tbsp thyme

1 tbsp basil

1 tbsp rosemary

1 tbsp marjoram

1 tbsp black pepper

Country Sausage

Probaby our best seller because of the name. It's a real good recipe too.

1 cup ice water

1 tbsp salt

2 tsp black pepper

1 tsp marjoram

2 tsp basil

1 tsp thyme

1/4 oz crushed garlic

Chorizo

Great flavour, hotter than hot Italian

3/4 cup ice water

1/4 cup white vinegar

1 tbsp salt

2.5 tsp paprika

2 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

2 1/4 tsp crushed chillie pepper

1 tbsp coarse black pepper

1/2 tbsp oregano

1 oz fresh chopped or minced garlic

Honey Garlic

If you really like honey and garlic is is amazing. I used to buy big pails of real honey for this one and real garlic

1 cup of ice water

1 tbsp white vinegar

1 tbsp salt

1 tsp white pepper

1.5 oz garlic

3/4 cup honey

1 tsp cinnamon

Knockwurst

German favourite

3 Ibs lean ground beef

2 Ibs ground pork

1 cup ice water

1 tbsp salt

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp white pepper

1 tsp mace

1/2 tsp coriander

1/4 tsp allspice

1 tbsp paprika

1/2 oz minced or presses garlic

Bratwurst

Mild delicate German Sausage

1 cup ice cold milk

1 tbsp salt

2 eggs lightly beaten

1 1/2 tsp white pepper

1 1/2 tsp mace

1/2 tsp ginger

1  1/2 tsp nutmeg

Russian

Powerful sausage, full of flavour, you must like onion,caraway and dill

Nothing half hearted about this sausage

1 cup ice water

1 tbsp salt

8 oz fresh onions chopped

3/4 oz pressed garlic

1 cup chopped fresh parsely

3 tbsp dill seeds

3 tbsp carraway seeds

1 tbsp black pepper

Louisiana Creole

Macho hot sausage, our hottest

*1 cup ice water if using dried ingredients below

*or 1/2  cup ice water if using fresh ingredients below

1 tbsp salt

2 tsp coarse black pepper

2 tsp sugar

1 tsp allspice

1 tbsp cayenne

1 tbsp crushed chillies

1 oz minced garlic

*1 cup ground fresh onions or 1/4  dried onions

*1 cup chopped fresh parsely or 1/4 cup dried parsely

1 1/2 stalks of celery finely chopped

Hungarian

The first sausage I made in Fred and Cathy Ploder's Kitchen

Simple but real good

1 cup ice water

1 tbsp salt

1 1/2 tbsp paprika

1 1/2 tbsp black pepper

1/4 oz crushed garlic (1/2 tablespoon)

These are 13 of the varieties of sausages I made. I have about 20 more--some chicken, some lamb, some all beef and a couple of smoked varieties. Depending on the interest level, I could post these later.