Hot smoked chicken and roast garlic sausage recipe

A summer sausage in my humble opinion, delicious chicken thigh and sweet roasted garlic, delicately smoked to just the right temperature. This will take a few hours but it’s worth it. Try smoking with apple wood to keep the smokey flavour as light as possible.

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• 700g diced skinless chicken thigh meat
• 200g diced pork shoulder
• 100g pork fat, diced
• 10g fresh thyme leaves
• 30g roasted garlic
• 5g pepper, ground
• 18g salt
• 2.5g Curing salt #1
• 1 meter hog casings

• Prepare roasted garlic ahead of time
• Place the fat in the freezer two hour ahead of time, the chicken and pork an hour ahead of time
• Soak about 1 meters of hog casings in warm water
• Cool the metal parts of your grinder and stuffer before use, if possible
• Remove the diced pork and chicken from the freezer when its got a frozen crust to it
• Grind all of the meat and the fat into a bowl. Keep the bowl chilled whilst you prepare the spices
• Mix all the spice mix ingredients, including the cure #1  together in a bowl.
• Add all of the ingredients, to the ground meat, and mix thoroughly, then chill in the fridge for 30 mins.
• Stuff the mixture into the hog casing, twisting off 6 inch sausages
• Hot smoke these sausages until the internal temperature reaches 74c