Pops breakfast sausage with venison?

lennyluminum · Jan 26, 2013

Has any one use venison instead of pork or a mixture of the 2 with pops breakfast sausage recipe?

I have a good amount of venison i would lie to turn into sausage and his recipe sound really good just not sure how it will be with venison.

diggingdogfarm · Jan 26, 2013

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kathrynn · Jan 26, 2013

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lennyluminum · Jan 26, 2013

Ok i may give it a shot tomorrow you think i should do 50/50 pork and venison or just add fat to the venison?

kathrynn · Jan 27, 2013

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Cool! Thanks Jarhead! Love it!!!! :biggrin:

Lenny....I didn't cut off any of the fats on the butts I used. Never have cooked deer meat...but hear its lean. Try it that way...may have to add more fat. I know the sausage guys will help ya too!

mrh · Jan 27, 2013

I have done it before... Used half ground pork with it. It is very good! Actually that was the only way I have done it, I have used several breakfast sausage recipes and always use 50% pork. You need some fat, deer is so lean! One of my favorite ways to do deer meat.

Mark

pgsmoker64 · Jan 27, 2013

I used to make deer sausage when I hunted. I always mixed in some beef fat with the venison and it came out great. I have also used pork fat and that came out even better.

Pork fat rules!!!!!

Bill

diggingdogfarm · Jan 27, 2013

Deer breakfast sausage is pretty ubiquitous around here, usually mixed with pork fat.
I don't make much venison sausage, there's only so much deer available and there are so many other venison favorites.

~Martin

robbieh · Jan 27, 2013

Like others here, I have made breakfast sausage before and always used half venison, half pork butt. Get that silver stuff off the venison, leave the fat on the pork. Grind the two together and youll have some great meat for all kinds of things... breakfast sausage, summer sausage, snackin sticks, burgers, ground meat for pasta sauce, tacos, meatloaf, etc...

roller · Jan 27, 2013

I think it would be just fine .

toby bryant · Jan 27, 2013

I make my venison breakfast sausage with 50% venison and 50% ground pork shoulder, haven't had any complaints yet. I cold smoked a couple of the logs before vacuum sealing and freezing this year and it turned out awesome! Good luck, and don't forget the q-view.

toby bryant · Jan 27, 2013

I make my venison breakfast sausage with 50% venison and 50% ground pork shoulder, haven't had any complaints yet. I cold smoked a couple of the logs before vacuum sealing and freezing this year and it turned out awesome! Good luck, and don't forget the q-view.

lennyluminum · Jan 27, 2013

Ok i did it!!!

I mixed up the seasonings just as pops had posted and had already had a few lbs of venison ground up with 20% pork fat added so i just used that.

The verdict is that is was pretty good! It was Little salty but over all a very good tasting breakfast sausage and a 100% better than the batch i had the butcher make up for me last time. I will do this again with 50/50 deer/pork and see how it goes but im sure it can only get better.

Noe should i let this rest in the fridge over night before freezing?

kathrynn · Jan 27, 2013

Show s-view!!!! Mine mellowed after a week! Was great!

boykjo · Jan 28, 2013

I like 50/50

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