Meats and Sausages
Low-Fat Potato Sausage
Low-Fat Potato Sausage is very similar to Swedish Potato Sausage. Sausage recipe calls for the addition of potato flour instead of boiled potatoes. Non-fat dry milk effectively binds water and greatly improves the taste of low-fat sausages. Adding potato flour, non-fat dry milk, onions and water increases the yield by 40% making it not only great tasting but also a great value added product.
| Meats | Metric | US |
|---|---|---|
| lean pork | 600 g | 1.43 lb |
| lean beef | 200 g | 0.55 lb |
| potato flour | 80 g | ½ cup |
| non-fat dry milk | 20 g | ½ cup |
| water | 100 g | 3/4 cup |
Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of meat
| salt | 15 g | 2 ½ tsp. |
| carrageenan | 5.0 g | 1 tsp |
| white pepper | 6.0 g | 3 tsp. |
| marjoram | 1.5 g | 1 tsp. |
| ginger, ground | 1.8 g | 1 tsp. |
| nutmeg | 1.0 g | 1/2 tsp |
| cardamom | 1.0 g | ½ tsp. |
| cloves, ground | 1.0 g | ½ tsp. |
| allspice, ground | 1.0 g | ½ tsp. |
| small onion, chopped | 30 g | ½ onion |
Instructions
- Grind pork and onions through 3/8” (10 mm) plate.
- Grind beef through 3/16” (5 mm) plate.
- Add salt, spices, 1/2 of the water and start mixing with meat sprinkling potato flour and non fat dry milk powder. You could mix all ingredients with half of the water in a blender and then pour over the meat.
- Add remaining water and keep on mixing until absorbed.
- Stuff into large hog casings 36-40 mm or beef rounds.
- Keep under refrigeration.
- Cook before serving.
Notes
Instead of potato flour, boiled or dry flaked potatoes can be added.
About 152 calories per 100 g (3.5 oz) serving.
