Louisiana Andouille sausage recipe

In the US, the Andouille is most often associated with  Louisiana Cajun cuisine - Its a really heavily spiced, smoked sausage, made with a variety of ingredients but most often pork, garlic, cayenne, paprika and wine. The sausage is actually French in origin, but the recipes have diverged a fair amount since it was introduced.

This sausage will take a few hours to slowly smoke to the right temperature, so it great for planning a lazy Saturday or Sunday lunch or dinner around.

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• 300g pork shoulder, diced
• 150g beef, diced
• 100g pork fat, diced
• 1.38g Curing salt #1
• 5g dry non fat milk powder
• 5g fresh thyme
• 1 pinch ground cloves
• 1 pinch of all spice
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/2 tsp sweet smoked paprika
• 1 tbsp crushed garlic
• 10g salt
• 50 ml red wine
• 1 meter hog casings

• Place the fat in the freezer two hour ahead of time, the beef 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 beef 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 65c