Homemade Sichuan and Sweet Sausage
1.
Marinated meat: Cut the hip tip (the ratio of fat to lean is 3:7) into meat pieces.
2.
Put all the seasonings for Sichuan flavor into the cut meat, mix well and marinate for 12-24 hours.
3.
Wash the casings and soak them in clean water for later use.
4.
Sausage filling: Cut off the mouth of the plastic beverage bottle at 1/3 of the mouth to make a funnel. One end of the casing is tied tightly with cotton thread, and the other end is placed at the mouth of the bottle. Fill the marinated meat into the funnel and use the thicker end of the chopsticks to fill the casing down. Do not leave a gap in the middle when filling the meat.
5.
Pour all the meat into the casing, and tie the opening of the casing tightly with cotton thread. After the sausage is filled, pierce some small holes in the casing with a needle to prevent the casing from swelling when it is aired.
6.
Place the filled sausage in a dry and ventilated place for about 10 days, and wait until the casing becomes wrinkled and the sausage turns dark red.
7.
For example, for filling sweet sausage, replace the marinade in step 2 with: 50ml high liquor, 100g salt, 100g white sugar, mix well and marinate for 12-24 hours, the subsequent steps are the same.
Tips:
1. To make sausages, you can choose skinless pork hind legs (hip tips). The ratio of fat to lean is roughly 3:7. You can also mix them according to your own taste, but don't be too thin. A funnel, coarse cotton thread, and needles are also needed for filling sausages. The funnel can be made from a plastic beverage bottle. The mouth of an ordinary funnel is too thin and is not suitable for filling sausages.
2. In the dry weather in the north, the sausage should not be too dry, otherwise it will be too hard to bite, as long as it is dried to the touch and still a little soft and no longer dripping. The time depends on the situation, and it takes about fifteen days in the south. After being dried in the north, it should be placed in the freezer of the refrigerator, otherwise it will be air-dried.
3. The taste of sausage can be added with soy sauce, fermented bean curd, thirteen incense, glutinous rice, etc. according to personal preference.