How Do You Make Ground Sausage Recipes?
If you have a meat grinder, homemade ground sausage is more economical than purchasing sausage at the grocery store. You also have the added benefit of being able to experiment with spices to find the sausage recipe that you like best. You can make ground sausage in an afternoon and freeze the shaped patties for use at any time. Purchase enough pork shoulder roasts to yield approximately 10 lbs. of meat. Slice and remove the heavy layer of fat from the bottom of the roasts. Use a sharp knife to remove the bone from the roasts if they have one. Cut the boneless meat into 1- to 2-inch cubes. Set up your meat grinder and place a large bowl under the grinding shoot to catch the ground meat. Feed the pork cubes through the grinder. Add in 2 tbsp. salt, 4 tsp. ground or fresh, chopped sage, 4 tsp. black pepper and 1 tsp. red pepper flakes. Mix the spices throughout the ground meat using your hands. Run the meat through the grinder a second time, to blend the spices into the meat. Shape the g