Meats and Sausages
Morcilla Riojana de Arroz
Morcilla Riojana is a very popular blood sausage in La Rioja region of Spain. The sausage is black with visible specks of white rice.
Materials | Metric | US |
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Pork blood | 300 ml | 10 oz fl |
Back fat or lard | 130 g | 4.58 oz |
Onions | 140 g | 4.94 oz |
Rice, cooked | 430 g | 15.16 oz |
Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of materials
Salt | 9.0 g | 1.5 tsp |
Black pepper | 2.0 g | 1 tsp |
Cinnamon | 2.0 g | 1 tsp |
Nutmeg | 0.5 g | ¼ tsp |
Instructions
- Chop onions and boil them. Cook rice.
- Grind back fat with 3 mm (1/8”) plate.
- Mix fat, onions, rice, blood and spices.
- Stuff into beef middles or large diameter pork casings. Form rings.
- Cook in water at 80° C (176° F) for 30 minutes.
Notes
The sausage can be eaten cold, fried or cooked.