Northern Thai sausage recipe

Seriously fragrant and super spicy, this sausage recipe is a close approximation of “Sai oua”, a northern Thai sausage. If you like Thai food and flavours - you’ll love this. You can just as easily make this with hog casings, but I’d just run out and decided to use lamb casings instead - a little more delicate but just as juicy.

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• 1 kg pork shoulder, diced
• 45 g garlic, minced
• 20 g turmeric
• 50 g Thai shallots
• 40 g lemongrass
• 4 g dried chillies, soaked
• 40 g coriander, stalks included
• 8 kaffir lime leaves
• 80 g fish sauce
• 5 g medium curry powder
• 60 g breadcrumbs
• 4 meters lamb casings

• Place the diced pork in the freezer about an hour ahead of time
• Soak about the lamb casings in warm water
• Cool the metal parts of your grinder and stuffer before use, if possible
• Remove the diced pork from the freezer when it’s got a frozen crust to it
• Grind the pork into a bowl. Keep the bowl chilled whilst you prepare the spices
• Add the garlic, lemongrass, chillies, shallots and kaffir lime leaves to a food processor and blitz to a chunky paste.
• Sweat this mixture in a pan on medium-low heat to soften, about 5 mins. Allow to cool.
• Add the above mixture to the rest of the ingredients and mix
• Add all of the ingredients to the minced pork and mix thoroughly, then chill in the fridge for 30 mins.
• Re-grind the mixture into a chilled bowl
• Stuff into casings, taking care – lamb casings are more delicate that hog casings and will burst more easily if overstuffed