Krakow Sausage (Kielbasa Krakowska krajana)

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PolishDeli

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For easter this year, I made some Kielbasa Krakowska krajana (Krakow
Sausage). This sausage is a traditional staple of Polish cuisine, often eaten for breakfast, second breakfast, and/or supper. It is quite large, smoked, and used as a cold cut. It is very lean - consisting mostly of pork loin.

No meat grinder is required; the meat is cut into large chunks. The little bit of fatty meat that is used can be emulsifued in a food processor (though i did use a meat grinder to do this).

I made 2kg (4.4 pounds) and used beef bung for casing. In the past, I've used hog casings and beef middles but those are too narrow for this type of sausage.

Recipe a pictures below:
Loin + lean parts of a sholder: 1800g
Fatty/class 3 meat: 200g
Salt: 36 g
Cure #1: 5g
Pepper: 5g
Sugar: 5g
Nutmeg: 2g

After combining the spices, remove about a fifth of the mixture. The two grades of meat will be seasoned separately.
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Cut the lean meat into 1-2inch pieces. Emulsify the class 3 meat.

Add in ~4/5 of the spice mixture to the lean meat. Cover/vac seal, and refrigerate for two days to cure.
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After curing, add the remaining spices to the emulsifued meat, and mix into the lean meat.
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Stuff firmly into beef bung. Refrigerate over night.
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Then it'soff to the smoker. I used apple wood chips.
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TBS and slow temp ramp untill IT=156°F
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Done
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On the table with kielbasa zwyczajna, and kabanosy.
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Cross section
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Slices
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Thanks for looking. Smacznego!
 
For easter this year, I made some Kielbasa Krakowska krajana (Krakow
Sausage). This sausage is a traditional staple of Polish cuisine, often eaten for breakfast, second breakfast, and/or supper. It is quite large, smoked, and used as a cold cut. It is very lean - consisting mostly of pork loin.

No meat grinder is required; the meat is cut into large chunks. The little bit of fatty meat that is used can be emulsifued in a food processor (though i did use a meat grinder to do this).

I made 2kg (4.4 pounds) and used beef bung for casing. In the past, I've used hog casings and beef middles but those are too narrow for this type of sausage.

Recipe a pictures below:
Loin + lean parts of a sholder: 1800g
Fatty/class 3 meat: 200g
Salt: 36 g
Cure #1: 5g
Pepper: 5g
Sugar: 5g
Nutmeg: 2g

After combining the spices, remove about a fifth of the mixture. The two grades of meat will be seasoned separately.
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Cut the lean meat into 1-2inch pieces. Emulsify the class 3 meat.

Add in ~4/5 of the spice mixture to the lean meat. Cover/vac seal, and refrigerate for two days to cure.
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After curing, add the remaining spices to the emulsifued meat, and mix into the lean meat.
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Stuff firmly into beef bung. Refrigerate over night.
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Then it'soff to the smoker. I used apple wood chips.
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TBS and slow temp ramp untill IT=156°F
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Done
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On the table with kielbasa zwyczajna, and kabanosy.
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Cross section
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Slices
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Thanks for looking. Smacznego!

Oh, heck ya! Love the pics! Grew up in a Polish family, so we had kielbasa at every holiday.
 
That looks fantastic . That's one of my favorites . I use Marianski's recipe . It' a good one .
Nice work on that , and nice write up .
 
Nice!!
3 questions:
How long did it take to heat to IT?
Would 65mm collagen middles work (I happen to have some)?
Would you be offended if I start "following" you :-)
Dan
 
Thank you for the kind words and likes. I appreciate it.

pushok2018 pushok2018
There are kabanosy on that plate.
Good eye.
I'll be positing a quick writeup on those too.

SmokyMose SmokyMose
Cook time was around 5 hours.
You can speed it up by baking in the oven once it stalls.
I've not tried collagen. But yea, it should work. 65mm is a bit narrower than the beef bung, but thats fine. It'll cook faster. Slice it at an angle and you'll get nice sized ovals.
And sure, feel free to follow. I don't post very often though; i have a lot to learn, and not much to show off.

Thanks again
 
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