This recipe was my wifes idea. She was asked what sort of salami she would like to eat with a Gin and Tonic! It’s got a very floral taste and does indeed go particularly well with a G&T. Try this with a Gin Mare (a lot of bars will serve this Gin with a basil leaf as a garnish).
Ingredients
- 600 g pork shoulder
- 100 g pork fat
- 19 g salt
- 0.5 g Bessastart
- 5 ml water
- 1.8 g Nitrite
- 2 g pepper
- 6 g basil fresh chopped
- 2.5 g pink peppercorns
- 2.5 g dextrose
- 2 meters sheep casings soaked in warm water
Instructions
- Soak the lamb casings for at least an hour and run some water through to clean thoroughly
- Add the Bessastart to the distilled water at room temperature and leave for 30 mins
- Chill your grinder in the fridge, along with the diced pork shoulder.
- Put the fat in the freezer.
- Assemble your grinder, and when the fat is frozen, roughly dice it and put through a course grind along with the diced pork shoulder
- 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 a number of 8 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 8 – 10 days!
How to eat it?
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