Ok here is the recipe I used for the Sun Dried Tomato Apple Chicken Sausage. I read over a lot of recipes & mixed & matched from several & added my own ideas to come up with this one. I've been wanting to make some chicken sausages for my grandparents. They have to really watch their diets so I DID NOT want to add any fat to the sausages. I also didn't want them to turn out drier than a 20 year old piece of leather. What to do. What to do...
Well here is what I finally came up with.
2 1/2 lb boneless/skinless chicken breast
2 1/2 lb boneless/skinless chicken thighs
3/4 lb onion peeled & quartered (I used yellow onions)
3 1/2 oz sun dried tomatoes (soak these for 15 minutes in warm water)
1 cup tart baking apples diced to roughly 1/8 inch or somewhere thereabouts
1 Tbsp salt
1 Tbsp pepper
1 Tbsp celery seed
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp oregano
6 oz water
Mix the breasts & thighs together & grind at the same time.
Grind the tomatoes & onions together.
Mix the sun dried tomatoes & onions into the chicken.
Mix in the cup of diced apples.
Add the water to the spices and mix in very well.
Stuff & enjoy.
These sausages turned out great! I was worried about the moisture content without adding any fat - that's why I added onion & apple. There was no issue with dryness at all! If you put them on a really hot grill & cooked them too long I'm sure they would be dry but you can do that to anything... I will be taking these to my grandparents as soon as I feel up to it & will be making more of these for myself. They have a nice flavor profile as well - nothing overwhelms anything else. All in all I am pleased with what I came up with