Italian sausage recipe

Firemanyz

Myself and some friends are butchering 2 hogs this weekend to make some breakfast sausage. Also we are going to make some using deer from this year. I was wondering what some of the spice blends you guys use to make Italian sausage. Any recipes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Griffin

Here's a simple hot Italian sausage we've done and really liked:

Hot Italian Sausage

5-lbs pork
1-cup cold red wine
1-cup chopped fresh parsley
5-tsp salt
1-tbsp garlic powder or-4 to 5 garlic cloves, minced
1-tbsp fresh ground pepper
3-tsp cayenne
5-tbsp fennel seed (the one change I made was reducing it to 4 and then grinding in a spice grinder)
2-tsp crushed chili peppers
5-tbsp paprika

Combine all, mix well & stuff into hog casing

Griffin

Oh...and we stuffed some and kept some just ground for pizzas, lasagnas and such.

Firemanyz

Great thanks a few more ingredients than the recipes I have found on line but I have almost everything.

Griffin

Mmmm...sausage and peppers

 

Firemanyz

Good morning all I wanted to bump this to the top to see if there are any other recipes out there.  We are going to be starting in a few hours, so was looking for any other input.  Thanks

NoDak1959

Here is a breakfast sausage recipe I've made that is pretty good. I did inrease the black pepper amount, but try it and see what you think.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/breakfast-sausage/detail.aspx?scale=30&ismetric=0