Homemade Country Sausage
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Take the mystery out of sausage. Just add a few spices to your ground pork to make your own perfect sausage blend. Cook the sausage in the microwave, on the stove top, or in a solar oven.
Author: Merry Bevill
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 16 oz (1 pound) ground pork
- 1 tsp (1½ tsp) salt
- ½ tsp (1 tsp) cayenne pepper
- ¼ tsp (1 tsp) rubbed sage
- ¼ tsp (1 /2 tsp) fresh course ground black pepper
- ¼ tsp (1/2 tsp) crushed red pepper flakes
- ¼ tsp (1/2 tsp) coriander
Instructions
- Combine all the spices in a small bowl. Mix well to blend.
- Put half of the ground pork into a large bowl. Add half of the spices.
- Mix thoroughly until the spices are evenly distributed thorough the meat.
- Do the same with the remaining half pound.
- Combine the meat mixture and mix again until all the spices are distributed.
- Cover and let sit in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight to let the spices blend into the meat.
- Cook a small amount of sausage and taste.
- Increase the spices if desired until you find your "perfect" sausage blend.
- When your sausage is the way you like it, roll or pat out the sausage mixture between layers of wax paper.
- Using a cookie cutter, biscuit cutter, or jar ring, cut out circles from the meat. Or just pat out small patties.
- Put into a solar safe baking dish.
- Place into a pre-heated solar oven.
- Cook until the sausage about 1 hour until the sausage is brown and cooked all the way through.
Notes
Notes: The basic recipe amount is first, followed by my adjustments in ( ) for the way we like it.
Variation #1: Sage - leave out the cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes; add ½ tsp dried parsley.
Variation #2: Maple - Leave out the cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and sage; add 3 TBSP maple syrup.
You can cook on the stove top or solar oven.
Sausage freezes well. Partially cook. When cool, layer between wax paper and put into the freezer. When frozen, place into a ziplock freezer bag. When needed, remove the sausage and heat on the stove top or in the microwave until hot. It will finish cooking while it is heating.
Variation #1: Sage - leave out the cayenne pepper and red pepper flakes; add ½ tsp dried parsley.
Variation #2: Maple - Leave out the cayenne pepper, red pepper flakes, black pepper, and sage; add 3 TBSP maple syrup.
You can cook on the stove top or solar oven.
Sausage freezes well. Partially cook. When cool, layer between wax paper and put into the freezer. When frozen, place into a ziplock freezer bag. When needed, remove the sausage and heat on the stove top or in the microwave until hot. It will finish cooking while it is heating.
Recipe by Sunshine On My Shoulder Solar Cooking Guide at https://www.sunshineonmyshoulder.com/homemade-country-sausage/