Garlic Sausage - a step towards making a cassoulet
Garlic Sausage - a step towards making a cassoulet
This is one of my steps towards making a cassoulet. I want a garlic sausage that is fine ground. I used pork belly as I wanted a high fat content sausage
Garlic Sausage
Pork 1Kg
Salt 16g
White Pepper 3g
Cognac 100g
Herb de Provance* 3g
Garlic 12g
*My Herb de Provance Mix (version 6)
1 Tbsp thyme
2 Tbsp Chervil
2 Tbsp Basil
2 Tbsp Rosemary
1 Tbsp Winter Savory
2 tsp Lavender Flowers (Isn`t Provance famous for its lavender!)
2 tsp Tarragon
1 tsp Fennel seeds
1 1/2 tsp Oregano
1 1/2 tsp marjoram
1 tsp Mint
2 powdered bay leaves
Use dried herbs.
Have yet to work out weights
Prepartion:
Mix together all of the ingredients and store in a tightly sealed container; or mix in a food processor to obtain a finer mixture if desired). This blend is excellent in soups, on potatoes, rice, pasta, meat, poultry, fish, roasted vegetables, sausages or bread. Mix with 1/4 lb butter for a real treat.
Ingredents
Stuffed Sausage
Poached in water and home made chicken stock. Poached at 75 degrees until internal temperature was 69 degrees took 30 mins.
Taste
Verdict
Wonderful subtle flavour. Could push up the garlic content. Would make a great cured sausage. May be too subtle for my cassoulet. Would work in a clear broth pasta/bean soup.
Decision
Will use it in my cassoulet. Tomorrow's project
Garlic Sausage
Pork 1Kg
Salt 16g
White Pepper 3g
Cognac 100g
Herb de Provance* 3g
Garlic 12g
*My Herb de Provance Mix (version 6)
1 Tbsp thyme
2 Tbsp Chervil
2 Tbsp Basil
2 Tbsp Rosemary
1 Tbsp Winter Savory
2 tsp Lavender Flowers (Isn`t Provance famous for its lavender!)
2 tsp Tarragon
1 tsp Fennel seeds
1 1/2 tsp Oregano
1 1/2 tsp marjoram
1 tsp Mint
2 powdered bay leaves
Use dried herbs.
Have yet to work out weights
Prepartion:
Mix together all of the ingredients and store in a tightly sealed container; or mix in a food processor to obtain a finer mixture if desired). This blend is excellent in soups, on potatoes, rice, pasta, meat, poultry, fish, roasted vegetables, sausages or bread. Mix with 1/4 lb butter for a real treat.
Ingredents
Stuffed Sausage
Poached in water and home made chicken stock. Poached at 75 degrees until internal temperature was 69 degrees took 30 mins.
Taste
Verdict
Wonderful subtle flavour. Could push up the garlic content. Would make a great cured sausage. May be too subtle for my cassoulet. Would work in a clear broth pasta/bean soup.
Decision
Will use it in my cassoulet. Tomorrow's project
Do no harm. Margerine is the biggest food crime
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Nice goin' Mark,
Wow, cognac and winter savory.... very interesting! I'll bet your kitchen smells great. What are you going to call this sausage? How about Canterbury Garlic Sausage?
Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon
Wow, cognac and winter savory.... very interesting! I'll bet your kitchen smells great. What are you going to call this sausage? How about Canterbury Garlic Sausage?
Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably needs more time on the grill!
Well I made the cassoulet.
The bacon I cut it up into 1 cm chunks. I did not take a picture of the uncooked bacon that I used. The bacon was dry cured for 6 days and smoked for four hours.
Browning the Sausage (cut up into 1 cm thick rounds)
Browning the Chicken Thighs
The final meal
Ingredients
I dont have a recipe, just play about with the volumes at the time.
Other ingredients used were carrots, celery, ground pepper, herbs de provance, onions + one whole one with cloves pushed in, bay leaf, a few fennel seeds, tin tomatoes (wrong time of year for fresh ones, home made chicken stock, a large pinch of raw sugar as the tomatoes were a bit tart. I did not wash the pan until I had and softened/browned all the ingredients. Because I had seasoned the chicken before browning it and of the bacon and sausage had salt in it I did not need extra salt.
After I made the bacon it tasted too smoked, but the taste mellowed. The smokiness in the cassoulet was just a nice hint.
For a special occasion I would have used a duck and sprinkled dry bread crumbs on it. For the last 15-20 mins of baking (I used the stove top to cook the meal. This was a first for this recipe. Traditionally white beans are used, but I prefer the more colourful and the slightly nutty flavour of borlotti beans. Some recipes use lamb or mutton. Others use rabbit. Its all about what is available (and in my case cost), the occasion (mine is for day in day out meals) taste and whether you regard or disregard tradition (and whose tradition).
I thought the taste of the sausage would be lost, but it was not. Next time I would not change anything. Then perhaps I could call it a traditional mak cassoulet
The bacon I cut it up into 1 cm chunks. I did not take a picture of the uncooked bacon that I used. The bacon was dry cured for 6 days and smoked for four hours.
Browning the Sausage (cut up into 1 cm thick rounds)
Browning the Chicken Thighs
The final meal
Ingredients
I dont have a recipe, just play about with the volumes at the time.
Other ingredients used were carrots, celery, ground pepper, herbs de provance, onions + one whole one with cloves pushed in, bay leaf, a few fennel seeds, tin tomatoes (wrong time of year for fresh ones, home made chicken stock, a large pinch of raw sugar as the tomatoes were a bit tart. I did not wash the pan until I had and softened/browned all the ingredients. Because I had seasoned the chicken before browning it and of the bacon and sausage had salt in it I did not need extra salt.
After I made the bacon it tasted too smoked, but the taste mellowed. The smokiness in the cassoulet was just a nice hint.
For a special occasion I would have used a duck and sprinkled dry bread crumbs on it. For the last 15-20 mins of baking (I used the stove top to cook the meal. This was a first for this recipe. Traditionally white beans are used, but I prefer the more colourful and the slightly nutty flavour of borlotti beans. Some recipes use lamb or mutton. Others use rabbit. Its all about what is available (and in my case cost), the occasion (mine is for day in day out meals) taste and whether you regard or disregard tradition (and whose tradition).
I thought the taste of the sausage would be lost, but it was not. Next time I would not change anything. Then perhaps I could call it a traditional mak cassoulet
Do no harm. Margerine is the biggest food crime
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