John’s Chorizo makes about 2-1/2 lbs of Sausage

egger ave

John’s Chorizo makes about 2-1/2 lbs of Sausage

Ingredients:

2 dried Ancho or New Mexico Red Chiles

1 lb of 75/25 ground beef, extra lean meat doesn’t make good sausage IMHO.

1 lb of ground pork

6 oz of Salt Pork

8-10 cloves of garlic, peeled

1-1/2 TSP of Salt

1 TSP of ground black pepper

½ TSP of Cumin

½ TSP of Oregano, I use fresh but dried will work

3 TBS of Ancho Chile Powder

1 cup of water

2 TBS of Apple Cider Vinegar

Making the sausage

Cut the stem off the peppers. In a small sauce pan, boil one cup of water and the peppers for about 5 mins until the peppers are soft. Turn the heat off and let the peppers and water cool for 10 mins.

Add the garlic cloves, spices, the peppers, salt pork and ¼ cup of water into your food processor. Blend until the ingredients become a paste.

Place the meat, salt, pepper, vinegar, the remaining water from cooking the chile’s and the paste in a large bowl and blend by hand.  

Will keep in the refrigerator for about 3 days. In the freezer about 10 days.

Mickey

Man that looks good. Will you be cooking it in Austin?

Chubbs

This one is bookmarked. Been wanting a ground chorizo recipe. Thanks for posting

egger ave

yes, will be cooking Chorizo at the Austin Eggfest, probably on skewers for samples.

egger ave

The Chorizo will keep much longer in the freezer, never had it last more than a couple of weeks to test how long though.

Village Idiot

egger ave said:

The Chorizo will keep much longer in the freezer, never had it last more than a couple of weeks to test how long though.

If you shrink wrap it, I'd bet it would be good as new after a year.

egger ave

Village Idiot said:

egger ave said:

The Chorizo will keep much longer in the freezer, never had it last more than a couple of weeks to test how long though.

If you shrink wrap it, I'd bet it would be good as new after a year.

will have to try that, thanks for the suggestion.

Griffin

Sounds like a killer recipe. I need to try that one.

Chubbs

Please excuse my ignorance, but was is "Salt Pork"??

egger ave

Salt Pork is made from same part of the hog as bacon. It's saltier and not cured. You can buy 1 lb cryovaced packages at a lot of grocery stores.