Everyone loves a good breakfast sausage, and homemade can be some of the best. Our lamb breakfast sausage recipe is based on classic flavors. With a few pantry staples you’ll be on your way to making your first batch of homemade charcuterie.
It’s straightforward-all you’re doing is mixing ground meat (preferably from shoulder) with a few dried spices. There’s a few things to know though. Chef Bergo usually encourages improvisation and cooking with what you have, but with sausage and other forms of charcuterie, it’s important to take an approach similar to baking–if you have a kitchen scale, it’s going to be your best friend.
Unlike say, a sauce or soup where you can “shoot from the hip” a bit, sausages and charcuterie rely on relatively specific proportions and ratios of salt to meat, which, after a time, react with myosin in the meat protein to give the juicy, bouncy sausage bite we know and love.
Once you understand that and how the meat reacts (you’ll notice a marked difference after it rests) to seasoning, you can and should play with your own spices and come up with combinations you like. But, Chef recommends starting with the proportions listed the first time you set out on your sausage making adventure. Once you have the basics down, some good variations on the basic flavors below might look something like this:
This recipe is by James Beard Award-winning Chef Alan Bergo. He’s a chef from Minnesota and author of The Forager Chef’s Book of Flora. Learn more about Chef Alan at foragerchef.com.
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Shepherd Song Farm: Grass to table. We raise lambs & goats traditionally, humanely and sustainably. 100% Grass Fed, Pasture Raised, Never Confined, no Hormones, Grains or Animal Byproducts. Born, raised and processed in the U.S.A. Good for you and good for the environment.
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