Linguica Portuguese Sausage Food

LINGUICA PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and mix well, if you can, leave for several hours so the flavors can develop.
• Stuff into hog casings or make into patties.
• You can omit the liquid smoke and smoke on home smoker until internal temperature reaches 160°.

LINGUICA PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cut pork into cubes, separating lean meat and fat.
• Measure or weigh; you should have equal parts, or 2 pounds each, fat and lean meat.
• Grind coarsely.
• Combine ground meat in large bowl with remaining ingredients, and mix well with your hands or a heavy spoon.
• Cover and chill at least 2 hours or overnight.
• Shape into patties or links.

LINGUICA SAUSAGE ( PORTUGUESE )

Steps:

• Cut pork into cubes, separating lean meat and fat.
• Measure or weigh; you should have equal parts, or 2 pounds each, fat and lean meat.
• Grind coarsely.
• Combine ground meat in large bowl with remaining ingredients, and mix well with your hands or a heavy spoon.
• Cover and chill at least 2 hours or overnight.
• Shape into patties or links.
• Cook as you would any sausage.

PORTUGUESE LINGUICA SAUSAGE RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• Grind the meat and fat coarsely. With your hands (rubber gloves, if you will) mix the rest of the ingredients well into the ground meat. Refrigerate for two hours or overnight. Shape into patties or stuff into hog casing to make links. If links, spread on a tray and refrigerate for up to three days, turning daily to allow links to dry and cure. Makes about five pounds of sausage.

SKILLET LINGUICA WITH PASTA

Steps:

• In a large deep skillet over medium-high heat add olive oil and sauté the onions until soft and translucent.
• Add the sausage, salt and pepper and sauté together for another 5 minutes.
• Add the chopped garlic and stir in for a minute.
• Add in the remaining ingredients of diced tomatoes, chicken broth, water, hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper, and uncooked pasta.
• Stir everything together and bring to a boil, cover the skillet and reduce the heat to a slow simmer. Cook for 15 - 20 minutes until the pasta is cooked and the liquid is absorbed.
• Taste and adjust seasoning to taste if needed.
• Remove skillet from heat and leave covered until ready to serve.

PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a soup pot over medium heat until it sizzles, about 1 minute. Add potatoes, onion, carrots, and celery. Cook and stir for 3 to 4 minutes. Add garlic, salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Stir for another 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add kale and bay leaves to the pot. Cover and let kale wilt for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add chicken broth, linguica, chorizo, tomatoes, and garbanzo beans with their juices to the pot and bring to a boil, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until veggies are tender, about 15 minutes more.

LINGUICA (SMOKED PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE)

Steps:

• Rinse fatback thoroughly and soak in warm water for 30 minutes. Remove and chop into small pieces.
• Pour olive oil in a small pan and saute garlic for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Do not let it brown. Remove from pan and put into a large bowl. Add fatback, pork butt, wine, paprika, milk, vinegar, salt, sugar, liquid smoke, marjoram, white pepper, black pepper, and red pepper and mix until everything is well combined. Cover and refrigerate for 8 hours, or overnight.
• Test the sausage flavor by frying a small bit of it in a pan and tasting it. Adjust spices if needed and place back in the refrigerator, covered, for 2 more hours.
• Run water through hog casings and rinse out as well as possible. Soak in warm water for 30 minutes.
• Set up sausage stuffing attachment on KitchenAid®. Squeeze out water from a length of casing. Tie one end in a knot, then roll onto sausage making fitting like a condom. Turn KitchenAid® onto medium speed. Feed cold sausage mixture a little at a time into the funnel. Use one hand to keep casing tight and one to feed meat mixture. Twist off links as you get to desired length. Repeat with remaining hog casings and sausage mixture.
• Add several handfuls of hot coal into a smoker to get a base temperature going, then let the temperature die down to about 140 degrees F 60 degrees C). You need a cold smoke to smoke the sausages so it doesn't cook and the skin doesn't get browned.
• When smoker has the right temperature, add hickory wood chunks. The temperature will spike again, so let it cool back down to 140 degrees F (60 degrees C).
• Using toothpicks, hang sausages in the smoker as far away from the direct heat source as possible. Maintain temperature at 140 degrees F (60 degrees C) as best as possible. It's difficult - don't sweat it if you get spikes. Just open the smoker door and let heat escape accordingly.
• Smoke until links are deep red and skin is starting to firm, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Remove from smoker and let rest for 30 minutes. Cook like any other sausage before, either pan-fry or grill, before serving.

PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE RICE

Steps:

• Put Butter and sliced Linguica in pot over medium heat. Brown Linguica it takes about 15 minute.
• Add the Water To Pot, And Salt.
• Bring to a boil,Add Rice. When the rice and water come to a boil, turn heat down to a simmer. Stir Occasionally throughout cooking time. It takes about 15-20 minute.

PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE SANDWICHES WITH PEPPERS, ONIONS, AND OLIVES

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and sauté until soft, about 5 minutes. Add peppers and sauté until lightly browned, about 6 minutes. Sprinkle mixture with sugar and paprika and sauté 1 minute. Using slotted spoon, transfer mixture to plate; leave drippings in skillet.
• Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to drippings in skillet. Add sausage and cook over medium heat until browned and heated through, turning occasionally, about 5 minutes. Transfer sausage to plate with pepper mixture.
• Add wine to skillet; boil until reduced by half, scraping up browned bits, about 3 minutes. Return sausage and pepper mixture to skillet; stir in olives. Cook until heated through, about 2 minutes.
• Place baguette quarters on each of 4 plates; fill with sausage mixture, spooning juices over each, and serve.