A step-by-step recipe with a photo of making chicken sausage with gelatin without preservatives at home. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step preparation of homemade chicken sausage with gelatin
- Video recipe
Sometimes you want to eat a sausage sandwich, especially when there is not enough time to prepare a full breakfast. But industrial sausages contain additives harmful to the body: dyes, stabilizers, preservatives. However, this is not a reason to deny yourself a delicious sandwich. You need to learn how to cook sausage yourself. There are many recipes used by housewives. Today we will learn how to cook homemade chicken sausage with gelatin.
To create a fragrant and tasty sausage at home, you need a small amount of chicken meat. If desired, chicken can be mixed with turkey or veal, it turns out no less tasty. Time for this homemade delicacy will take no more than an hour. And the calorie content of the dietary product is not at all high. Therefore, homemade chicken sausage can be consumed without fear for your figure. Plus, the versatile dish will suit any occasion. Homemade sausage can be eaten for breakfast or dinner, served on a festive table, given to children to school, taken to a picnic, used for making salads, etc. The main advantage is no preservatives, the ability to control the quality of products and the manufacturing process.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 270 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 1 Sausage
- Cooking time - one hour
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Any spices and spices to taste
- Gelatin - 0.5 tsp
- Pork lard - 30 g
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
Step by step preparation of homemade chicken sausage with gelatin, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the chicken fillet under running water and pat dry with a paper towel. Remove the wires and film from it. Cut into medium sized chunks and place in a food processor, into which place the cutter attachment.
2. Grind the meat until smooth. If you don't have a food processor, twist the fillets twice through a meat grinder.
3. Place the minced chicken in a deep container and add the twisted or finely chopped lard. Take it without meat streaks and cut the peel. If you want to get a more dietary product, then you can exclude lard from the list of ingredients.
4. Peel the garlic and finely chop or pass through a press. Send it to chicken meat. Add salt, ground pepper and any spices.
5. Knead the dough until smooth so that all food is evenly distributed.
6. Dissolve gelatin in 30 ml of warm water and let it swell until completely dissolved. Gelatin serves as a thickener, which prevents the sausage from falling into pieces during cooking and slicing. This ingredient turns a common dish into a restaurant option. Before using gelatin, read the instructions for its use, which is printed on the manufacturer's packaging.
7. Pour the swollen gelatin into the minced meat and mix the products well.
8. Fold the cling film in 2 times and cut a small section. Place sausage-shaped minced meat on top of it.
9. Wrap the meat in plastic, making it a cylindrical shape. If desired, tie the sausage with threads, as shown in the photo.
10. Dip the sausage into a pot of boiling water.
11. Make the heat slow, cover the saucepan and cook the sausage for half an hour.
12. Remove the sausage from hot water and leave to cool to room temperature, then put it in the refrigerator. When the food is cold, unfold it from plastic, cut and serve.
Note: You can use natural casings as a sausage casing. You can also wrap the minced meat in foil and send the sausage to bake in the oven.
See also a video recipe on how to cook instant homemade chicken sausage.