Five-Spice Apricot Pork Sausage ~ the butcher, the baker

Monday, October 24, 2011

Five-Spice Apricot Pork Sausage





Five-Spice Apricot Pork Sausage
Yields: 4 lbs of sausage
Time to complete: 1 hour
Ingredients
      1625g Pork
      5g TCM
      191g Dried Apricots, chopped
      9g Five-Spice Powder
      7.5g Ginger, grated
      12.5g Fish Sauce
      5g Honey
      82.5g Water
Procedure:
  1. Grind all ingredients, except for the water, together. Keep everything cold! You can see in my photo above that I used a coarse die, leaving some attractive white chunks of fat in the sausage.
  2. Add the water and mix on medium speed with a paddle until it develops a tacky appearance.
  3. Stuff into hog casings, twist into links if desired, and prick all over with a pin to prevent unplanned bursting.
  4. Simmer the links in water at around 190°F until their internal temperature reaches very nearly 150°F. Remove and plunge them immediately into ice water to halt the cooking.
  5. Fin!
What to Do With This
    Chopping this up into a ricey stir-fry would work okay, but at the restaurant it just went onto the charcuterie plate as plain slices with asian mustard and crackers.

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