The best part of making your own sausages is that you can determine what goes into them. These sweet smoked chorizo sausages are made from locally sourced pork. You can use any paprika you have to hand to change the flavour profile.
Head straight on to the Recipe For Sweet Smoked Chorizo ♥
For those of you who do not live in South Africa you might not know about our listeriosis crisis. I call it a crisis as we have had close to 200 deaths from this bacterial infection. It has mostly affected our cold meat industry due to a variety of factors. Apparently, an imported product resulted in this bacteria entering the country. It irks me that a corporation thought it necessary to import something that is available locally. I gather this was a cost driven factor. The minced chicken cost them R4.00 per kilogram. To me, the cheapness of the product would have set alarm bells ringing. But, not for them. And this saving will end up costing them millions in lawsuits. A lot of products had to be withdrawn from our supermarkets. The one that affected me was our locally produced chorizo.
Today’s inspiration ♥ Recipe For Sweet Smoked Chorizo ♥ can be found on Lavender and Lime Share on X
At first I was gobsmacked to read it contained imported product. But it turns out that it did not contain anything untoward. It was merely cut and packaged in a facility next door to the one affected. Due to the proximity, the chorizo together with other products made for this brand were removed from their shelves. But then I remembered that a year ago Tanya had shared a recipe for fresh Spanish chorizo. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make my own. Due to the abundance of sweet smoked paprika I have I made Sweet Smoked Chorizo. It had a wonderful taste and I cooked it two ways. One in red wine as suggested by my tapas recipe book. And the rest was cooked in the sous vide. I much preferred the texture when cooked in the sous vide.
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Sweet Smoked Chorizo
Ingredients
- 750 g pork with 30% fat content, coarsely minced
- 35 g smoked sweet paprika
- 5 g garlic flakes
- 10 g salt
- 20 mls red wine
- Sausage casings
Method
- Place the pork, paprika, garlic flakes, salt and wine into a mixing bowl
- Combine and then fry off a bit to check the seasoning
- Adjust if necessary, cover and refrigerate for 5 hours
- Place into sausage casings and refrigerate to dry for 24 hours
- You can bake the sausages in red wine, or cook in a sous vide set at 60º Celsius for 45 minutes – 4 hours
Take a look at what was previously posted on Lavender and Lime on May 25:
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- 2016 – Benguela Brasserie
- 2015 – BBQ Pork Ribs
- 2012 – Meadowsweet
- 2011 – Lemon Curd
- 2010 – Le Soufflé Restaurant
Making my own chorizo is definitely on my “to make” list! Thanks Tandy for this totally timely recipe 😀
My to make list keeps on growing 🙂
Ooh that looks good…very authentic! Such a shame about the problems we’re all having around the world with contaminated meat and other products, when will it end…never probably.
Hopefully we don’t have this bad a contamination ever again!
I understood it was a meat flavouring paste that carried the listeriosis that was used as an additive. I didn’t know about the chicken as well. Lovely recipe, Tandy.
The paste was made from chicken by products such as the bones, organs etc.
In an ideal world we would make everything from scratch. This seems a very tasty place to start 🙂
Amalia
xo
So true Amalia 🙂
Think my comment must have got lost but just wanted to say it looks incredible!
It didn’t get lost. Just haven’t had time to reply xx thanks for a great recipe.
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