Country Sausage Recipes

BEST SAUSAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Place sausage in a large, deep skillet; cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown, about 10 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet and let drain on paper towels. Combine melted margarine with the sausage drippings until there is 1 cup of drippings and margarine combined.
• Cook and stir onion and celery in the margarine-dripping mixture in the same skillet over medium heat until onion is tender but not browned, about 10 minutes . Stir in about 1/3 of the bread cubes. Pour onion mixture into a large bowl and stir in remaining bread cubes, sausage, poultry seasoning, and pepper. Watch your hands, it's hot. Mix well. This stuffing is ready for baking.

COUNTRY SAUSAGE WITH RED-EYE GRAVY

Steps:

• In a medium bowl combine the pork, croutons, onion, garlic, the 1 teaspoon brown sugar, sage, salt, thyme, and cayenne. Mix thoroughly. Gently mix in cherries (for added flavor, soak cherries in 1/4 cup of bourbon for 15 minutes). Shape mixture into twelve 3-inch patties, using wet hands. Arrange on a tray. Cover; refrigerate overnight.
• In a large skillet fry patties, half at a time, in hot oil over medium heat for 5 minutes on each side or until browned and cooked through. Remove from heat:keep warm.
• For the Red-Eye Gravy, stir the 2 tablespoons brown sugar into the drippings in skillet. Stir in the coffee. Bring to boiling. Boil gently, uncovered, for 2 or 3 minutes or until gravy is slightly thickened and has a rich reddish brown, scraping the skillet to loosen any crusty bits.
• Split biscuits. Serve sausage patties in split biscuits with gravy.

COUNTRY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• If your meat grinder comes with a coarse and a fine grind attachment, grind the meat first through the coarser disk. Put all the remaining ingredients in a spice mill or blender and process until ground evenly. Add the ground seasonings to the meat and mix in well. In a frying pan on top of the stove, fry a little piece of the sausage and taste for seasoning. Correct the seasoning to your own taste. If you think the sausage is too fatty, you may add some more lean meat (and it needn't be pork: veal is fine, and oysters are delicious); you may want more hot peppers.
• Put the properly seasoned forcemeat through the fine grinder.
• If you are stuffing the sausage into casings: Run the mixture through the meat grinder set on the fine setting (and with the sausage stuffer attached and the casings tied at one end and placed over the end of the funnel, ready to be filled). Tie off stuffed sausages into 4-inch links. Cover the sausages and place immediately in the refrigerator.
• You can smoke some or all of the sausage - or partially smoke it. And you can freeze the sausage as well.

HOME-STYLE COUNTRY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 10 ingredients. Crumble turkey over mixture and mix well. Shape into eight 1/2-in. thick patties., In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, cook patties for 4-6 minutes on each side or until juices run clear.

COUNTRY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients really well and then grind in a sausage grinder.