Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Home Made Spicy Chorizos

I should and I must!

I have laid off blogging for quite a while now due to work that limits my time for enjoying my favorite hobby of baking and cooking. I have been so tired and utterly drained after each day at work. Three months back, I had a change of portfolio which enables me to squeeze in a bit of baking, cooking and attending culinary classes. One of them is a sausage making workshop which prompted me to make some myself.

If you have been following my blog, you will know that this is not the first time I am making sausages abeit a different kind. A couple of years back,I had attempted to make Chinese Sausages or Lap Cheong. It was fun but tedious at the same time as all I had was a funnel to feed the meat down the casing. It was a slow and laborious task. So I am so glad I invested in a sausage extruder attachment that works with my good ole Kenwood Major. It makes filling the hog casings a breeze and in a blink, they are ready to be twisted into links.

My first batch of Spicy Chorizos. There is nothing like biting into a freshly made, 100% wholesome sausage. There is no fillers and gritty bits like those you find in some prepacked sausages. Of course, gourmet sausages is a different species. You may pay a little more for the few links of sausage but the quality is so different.

The sausages are best eaten a day later to enable the casing to have a snap. If eaten immediately, the casing can be chewy and hard to bite through.

The spices that goes into the Chorizos
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The seasoned sausage mix ready to go into the casings
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Extrusion
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Ready to do the twist
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Com'on baby, let's do the twist
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Twisted into the familiar links
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Yummy Spicy Chorizo served with a cold beer
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8 comments:

Alannia said...

Wow, Rusti, homemade chorizos. Yums.....

I do not like the cheap sausages out there but the gourmet ones are so expensive here. Furthermore, I find that the chorizos are always very salty.

Is it possible for you to pm me the recipe at KC?

Thanks and regards.

dd said...

Hi Rusti, no long no see, miss your homemade..

I plan to learn how to make all kind of sausage, mind sharing your recipe with me? Thank you.

Rusti said...

Hi DD

Leave me your email address.

Ginny

dd said...

w26e@hotmail.com

Thank you very much.

Is the casing price still S$10 per package(5 meter)? I am getting my Singapore relative to buy for me this weekend.

Anonymous said...

Can I use dry casing like those you used previously? Any different between dry and fresh casing? which is better?

Thank you.

dd

Rusti said...

dd
I have not tried with those casings. Perhaps you can try and let me know the result.

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