I had been wanting to make some chicken sausage since everything I had done so far was pork and my wife likes chicken.
I found a recipe on a sausage site that used dried fruit. I bought a bag of frozen skinless boneless thighs from Costco and measured out 5 lbs and ground them frozen.
The recipe called for chopped dried apples and apricots, but what I found was a bag of Sun Maid mixed dried fruit that had the apples and apricots, but also pears and plums. Sounded good so that's what I used.
Other components were fresh onion, sage, nutmeg, red pepper flakes, NFDM, kosher salt, CBP and cure#1.
I mixed the frozen ground chicken and dried ingridents and stuffed into natural casings and back to the frig to marinate overnight.
I smoked the sausage the next day in the MES30 after drying it first at 100f for an hour, then 160f with Apple pellets in my AMNPS for about 6 hrs to 160f IT. Rinsed in cold water and air dry and back to the frig overnight. Vacuum pack today.
I found a recipe on a sausage site that used dried fruit. I bought a bag of frozen skinless boneless thighs from Costco and measured out 5 lbs and ground them frozen.
The recipe called for chopped dried apples and apricots, but what I found was a bag of Sun Maid mixed dried fruit that had the apples and apricots, but also pears and plums. Sounded good so that's what I used.
Other components were fresh onion, sage, nutmeg, red pepper flakes, NFDM, kosher salt, CBP and cure#1.
I mixed the frozen ground chicken and dried ingridents and stuffed into natural casings and back to the frig to marinate overnight.
I smoked the sausage the next day in the MES30 after drying it first at 100f for an hour, then 160f with Apple pellets in my AMNPS for about 6 hrs to 160f IT. Rinsed in cold water and air dry and back to the frig overnight. Vacuum pack today.
