Delicious, easily made, classic Italian salami, with a hint of chill and real depth of flavour from a mix of beef and pork!
Ingredients
- 750 g fatty Pork shoulder, diced
- 250 g lean beef, diced
- 150 g fat diced and frozen
- 34.5 g Salt
- 1 g Bactoferm TPX
- 15 ml Distilled water
- 2 meters beef middles
- 2.5 g Cure No 2
- 4 g Ground pepper
- 5 g Dextrose
- 5 g garlic, crushed
- 1 dried hot red chilli, chopped finely
- 2.5 g fennel seeds, crushed
Instructions
- Soak the beef casings for at least an hour and run some water through to clean thoroughly.
- Add the Bactoferm to the distilled water at room temperature and leave for 30 mins.
- Chill your grinder in the fridge.
- Roughly chop the pork, beef and pork fat.
- Put the fat in the freezer along with the diced pork shoulder and beef until the pork and beef is partially frozen.
- Assemble your grinder and put the diced pork shoulder, beef, and pork fat through a course grind.
- Add all of the ingredients above, along with the Bactoferm in the distilled water, to the ground shoulder and fat. Mix thoroughly.
- Add to stuffer and churn out two 12 inch lengths.
- To start the fermentation, add to your drying chamber at 95RH and 23c for 48 hours.
- Then switch to 75RH at 12c for the rest of the process, until the sausage has lost 35% of its weight. This should take around 20 - 30 days.
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