Venison Salami Food

VENISON SALAMI

Steps:

• Place ground venison in a large plastic bowl or bucket. Add the curing mixture, sugar, peppercorns, mustard seed, ground pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, liquid smoke, and salt. Mix well, then cover tightly and refrigerate for 24 hours.
• On the second day, mix thoroughly, kneading as you would bread for 2 to 3 minutes. Re-cover and refrigerate for another 24 hours.
• On the third day, mix and knead the mixture again for another 2 to 3 minutes. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Shape mixture into 2 or 3 round logs, about 4-inches in diameter. Place on a lightly oiled baking tray and bake in preheated oven for five hours, turning halfway through, until the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees F (70 degrees C). Cool and then refrigerate overnight before slicing and serving.

SMOKED VENISON SALAMI

Steps:

• Grind chilled venison through a 6mm plate and back fat through the 10mm plate. Let chill again before mixing. You want the temp of the meat to be around 35F (or below).
• Prepare all the seasonings and prepare the starter culture and set to the side. You starter culture needs about 30 minutes to "wake-up" before use. Also soak your casing in luke warm water.
• Mix the meat, seasonings, and re-hydrated culture together. You mince meat will be very sticky when finished
• Stuff your mince into a 61mm natural hog casing making sure there are no air pockets. Tie the end with some butchers twine. Prick with a sausage pricker and weigh your salami. Record the weight
• Ferment your salami between 75f- 90F with 90% humidity for 12-24 hours (these parameters are for this culture, other culture require different parameters). If you plan on cold smoking then do it while you are fermenting the salami.
• While this sausage is fermenting we will be cold smoking it as well. Cold smoke for 3-6 hours with an applewood, pecan, or cherry wood.
• Test the pH at 12 hours to see where you are at. You are aiming for a ph between 4.9 and 5.2.
• Once you have reached your target pH place your salami in your drying chamber at 55F with 80% Humidity. Let it dry in this chamber until you have reached a 38%-40% weight loss.

VENISON SAUSAGES WITH BAY AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Chop meat and fat into chunks that will for into your grinder. (Optional expert step: Mix the salt and curing salt - if using - with just the meat, grind very coarsely -- 10 mm or 12 mm plate -- and refrigerate overnight. If you don't have such a large plate, cut the meat a little finer and do the same thing. This will give you a tighter bind in the finished sausage, which is especially important, as this is a coarsely ground sausage.)
• Take out some hog casings and set in a bowl of warm water.
• When you are ready to grind, mix the meat and fat with all the herbs and spices. If you are using the dry milk powder, mix that in, too. I use it when I slow-smoke sausages; it helps them retain moisture and shrink less after they come out of the smoker. Make sure the meat and fat are 37°F or colder by putting the mixture in the freezer for an hour or so. Put the wine in the fridge.
• Grind through your meat grinder (you can use a food processor in a pinch, but you will not get a very good texture) using the coarse die (6 mm or 7 mm).
• Make sure your sausage is very cold, between 28°F and 32°F. When it's cold enough, take it out of the freezer and add the wine and water. Mix the sausage thoroughly either using a Kitchenaid on low for 60 to 90 seconds or with your (very clean) hands for 2 minutes. This is important to get the sausage to bind properly.
• Stuff the sausage into the casings. Twist off links by pinching the sausage down and twisting and spinning it, first in one direction, and then with the next link, in the other direction; this helps prevent them from unwinding. (Here's a quick video on making the links) Or you could tie them off with butcher's string. Make sure you pierce the links wherever there are air pockets; I use a needle sterilized in the flames of my stovetop. Gently squeeze the links to remove all air pockets.
• Hang the sausages in a cool place for up to a day (ideally hanging in a fridge, but even an hour at room temperature helps a lot). Once they have dried a bit, put in the fridge until needed. They will keep for at least a week refrigerated. If you are freezing the sausages, wait a day before doing so. This will tighten up the sausages and help them keep their shape in the deep-freeze.

EASY VENISON SALAMI

Steps:

• 1. Combine all ingredents in a large bowl and mix well. Then cover and place in the refrigerator for 24 hours
• 2. Remove from the refrige and knead like you would bread dough for 4 or 5 minutes. Cover and return to the fridge for another 24 hours
• 3. remove from fridge and once again knead the meat mixture for 4 or 5 minutes. return to fridge to chill for 30 minutes
• 4. preheat oven to 250 degrees. Divide into 4 equal parts and shape into logs approximatly 4 inches in diameter
• 5. place each log in the center of a piece of tin foil enough to wrap around the log and crimp at each end.
• 6. Place the wrapped loaves on a foil-covered large cookie sheet. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 3 hours, turn the logs over and bake for another 3 hours. or until meat thermometer gives a internal temp of 162 degrees
• 7. Remove from the oven, unwrap the salami logs and place on paper towels to drain and absorb any excess grease. Once drained place logs in the fefrigerator to chill overnight. ENJOY

VENISON SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a large metal bowl, mix sugar, mustard seed, garlic, salt, and pepper with pork and venison. When ingredients are well mixed, grind the meat mixture in a meat grinder. Put the ground meat into a mechanical sausage stuffer. Be sure to push all of the air out of stuffer so there are no air pockets in the sausages. Fill pork casing with ground meat. When casing is filled entirely, find the center of the sausage and fold and pinch in 1/2 on a table. Pinch and twist into sausage links 2 at a time, pulling the "leg" of the sausage through the center each time a twist is made.
• Hang sausage in a smoke house or put sausage in a smoker for approximately 8 to 12 hours.

VENISON SALAMI

Steps:

• Mix well.
• Cover with plastic wrap pushed down on meat mixture.
• Refrigerate 4 days mixing well at least once a day.
• On 4th day form mixture into long rolls, place on baking sheet.
• Cook 225 F for 4 hours.
• Wrap in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator.

SMOKED VENISON SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cut the venison and pork belly into grinderappropriate sized pieces. Place on a tray and in the freezer for 15-20 minutes while you set up the grinder.
• Assemble the grinder with a 3/8" plate to start and grind the meat once through the 3/8" plate.
• Gently combine the Butter Garlic Sausage Seasoning with the once ground meat. Place back in the fridge while you reset the grinder.
• Replace the grinder plate with a 3/16" plate and grind seasoned meat through once. 
• Add the binder flour and pink salt to the meat block and combine well with your hands or a meat mixer.
• Add water and mix until protein extraction starts. Prep sausage stuffer with a ¾" horn. Load stuffer with meat block, avoiding any air pockets when loading.
• Thread sausage casings onto horn and gently begin stuffing into casings, leaving just enough give to twist them. 
• Link off sausages and use a sausage pricker or sharop knife to remove any air pockets. 
• Place on a rack lined sheet tray and place in the fridge overnight to dry and to develop flavors.
• Preheat smoker to 130 degrees F. Hang sausages on smoke sticks, allowing at least 2" between sausages. Place in the smoker for 30 minutes.
• Place ¼ pan of moistened sawdust on the heating element and increase the house temperature to 150 degrees. Smoke for 45 minutes.
• Remove the sawdust and increase the house temperature to 170 degrees and cook for 2-3 hours, or until an internal temperature of the sausage reaches 155 degrees F. 
• Take the sausages out of the smokehouse and place in an ice bath for 15-20 minutes to rapidly chill.
• Store in vacuum packed bags for future use or grill up right away and enjoy!

VENISON HARD SALAMI

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients in a pan. Keep refrigerated and covered. Mix well once a day for 3 days. On 4th day form in firm compact rolls and place on broiler pan. Bake 4 hours at 180 degrees. Turn rolls 3 timesduring baking. Salami may be cooked longer it you wish it to be firmer.

VENISON SAUSAGE W/FENNEL

Steps:

• grind the fennel and peppercorns together in a spice grinder. Mix with salt.
• Cut fat and meat into ≈ 1" chunks.
• mix all dry ingredients into meat taking care to avoid clumps
• Let rest in the refrigerator a day, mix again. Then stage in the freezer (along with your detachable grinder parts) until stiff but not frozen.
• Grind through a coarse plate (3/8" / 10mm), mix again, and stage in the freezer again.
• Grind through a fine plate (3/16" / 4.5mm) and mix again.
• Stuff into ≈ 22mm collagen or sheep casing links, or package "loose" and use or freeze as appropriate.

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