Hot Italian Sausage Make Your Own Food

HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine all ingredients, except casings, in a large bowl. Put the meat mixture through a grinder and grind according to manufacturer's instructions. Tie a knot in 1 end of a casing and begin filling the casings with the meat mixture, then tie off the other end of the casing once all the meat has been used. Twist the casing into 6 sausage links.
• Bake sausage for at least 15 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat a grill.
• Remove sausage links from oven and place on grill. Grill until crispy and golden brown. Spice up your favorite pasta recipe by adding sausage slices or enjoy your sausage the old-fashioned way, on a bun topped with your favorite condiments.

HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cube Pork make sure you have a ratio of about 3 to one meat to fat . I use pork butt and works fine.
• Run through meat grinder using a medium coarse blade. Once.
• Mix in remaining ingredients and run through again.
• Stuff in to pork casings and freeze. Cook as a raw sausage.
• Or wrap in plastic wrap in medium sized links (about 1 inch diameter and about 6 inches long) wrap tightly and tie off ends and poach in almost boiling water at first, then increase to slow boil for ten minutes. Remove and unwrap. Put in freezer bags squeezing out air. Freeze. To cook:thaw, reheat in skillet with a little butter until browned.

HOMEMADE HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Be careful with the wine quantity if you resize down. Also, its good with dried herbs, of course, but far better with fresh garlic cloves and parsley. My wife and I were once in a hurry making a pound of it for a quick Saturday lunch with Italian bread slices and red wine and I didn't take a minute to toast the fennel seeds on the stovetop; big difference. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra 2 or 3 minutes there even if you substitute a tablespoon or so of powdered garlic for the cloves and use the ever handy dried parley flakes.

HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE (MAKE YOUR OWN)

Steps:

• 1. Place the ground pork into a large bowl. Season with salt, garlic salt, black pepper and paprika.
• 2. In a blender or food processor, blend together the oil, anise seed, fennel seed and red pepper flakes. Mix everything into the ground pork until well blended.
• 3. Refrigerate for 24 hours to let flavors blend. Bag and freeze in portions that suit your needs.
• 4. The most helpful posted review follows: vinnie-bag-o-donuts Feb. 5, 2011 246 (likes) As an old school Italian, there isn't nearly enough spice for 20 lbs of pork. Surprised you can get any flavor at all. I've modified several times and I'm getting close to what I consider real Italian hot sausage from the neighborhood. Good spices, just needs a little help. Try this: * cut back to 3-4 lbs of pork (grind your own) * 1/2 tsp salt, * 1 tbs garlic salt, * 1/2 tsp pepper, * 1 tbs paprika, * 1/4 C olive oil, * 1/2 tbs anise , * 2 tbs fennel seed, (fennel is porks best friend) * 1 tbs red pepper Trick: after is sets overnight, fry up a meatball of it and check its flavor. Add what you think it needs and set it overnight again. If it's fresh you should be able to do this several times before you have to freeze it or cook it. Vinnie

HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Place the ground pork into a large bowl. Season with salt, garlic salt, black pepper and paprika. In a blender or food processor, blend together the oil, anise seed, fennel seed and red pepper flakes. Mix everything into the ground pork until well blended. Refrigerate for 24 hours to let flavors blend. Bag and freeze in portions that suit your needs.