How to give up factory sausages? Learn to do them yourself. Homemade ham is a delicious and harmless treat. It will take 3 hours to prepare it, but the result will surprise and delight. Home-cooked ham will become the main dish on your table.
Whole, minced meat, game, dietary with herbs, spices and even vegetables and fruits. Ham can be different. There are several dozen homemade sausage recipes. This allows housewives to experiment and delight household members with fresh, and most importantly, healthy ham.
Secrets of delicious ham
Any meat will do to make ham. It can be a whole piece of one type and a real cold cuts. The main thing is that it is fresh and chilled.
To make the ham juicier, one part of the meat can be cut into pieces, the other twisted. Homemade sausage can be boiled, baked and smoked.
The composition of the ham can include gelatin (dry). It helps to create the desired shape, adds juiciness and allows you to combine all the ingredients into a coherent whole.
The sausage preparation process becomes much easier if you use a ham maker. She also creates the ideal shape of the product. In its absence, you can use a special collagen casing, baking sleeves or foil.
If you add mustard to the sausage, it will become more aromatic.
Ingredients
- 600 g chicken or turkey meat
- 300 g pork
- 100 ml of water
- granulated garlic - to taste
- 1 tsp mustard
- salt to taste
- pepper - to taste
Necessary materials
- Culinary thread
- 40 cm collagen casing 65-80 mm
Cooking instructions
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Chill the meat. Cut chicken and turkey fillets into strips 1 cm thick.
- Twist the pork with a meat grinder.
- Combine 3 types of meat. Add salt. To stir thoroughly.
- After a while, the meat will take on a darker shade and become softer. Leave the minced meat in the refrigerator for a day.
- When the minced meat is salted, you can continue to work with it. Add pepper, mustard, granulated garlic and water. Stir until the meat has completely absorbed all the liquid.
- Cut off the shell, 40 cm long. Soak it for 20 minutes in water at a temperature of 40 degrees.
- Stuff the minced meat in the frill. It is important to lay it tightly.
- Tie a loaf of sausage tightly on both sides so that the ham does not lose its juiciness.
- For 3 hours, send the ham to the oven, preheated to 80 degrees.
- Get the ham. Refrigerate. You shouldn't try homemade sausage right away. She must be saturated with all the juices. It will need to be left in the refrigerator overnight.
During the night, the homemade sausage will infuse, become juicy, fragrant, tender. In the morning, the ham will be ready to serve and will be the best breakfast option. Such a delicacy will be appreciated by all household members, without exception. The hostess will have to cook healthy ham regularly, because this is an incredibly tasty snack.