How to Make Pepperoni Sausage
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 196kcal
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Ingredients
- 700 g pork butt about 1.54 lbs; see notes
- 300 g beef chuck about 0.66 lbs; see notes
- 23 g salt about 4 tsp
- 2.5 g Cure #1 about 1/2 tsp
- 10 g dextrose or glucose; about 2 tsp
- 5 g sugar - 5.0 g about 1 tsp
- 3 g black pepper ground, about 1½ tsp
- 8 g sweet paprika ground, about 4 tsp
- 2.5 g anise seeds ground; about 1 tsp
- 2 g allspice ground; about 1 tsp
- 2 g cayenne pepper about 1 tsp
- 0.24 g F-LC culture use scale
- 80 ml distilled water about 1/3 cup
Instructions
- Grind pork and beef through 3/16” plate (5 mm).
- Mix all ingredients with ground meat.
- Stuff into beef middles or fibrous casings about 60 mm in diameter.
- Ferment at 86F (30C) and 85-90% humidity for 24 hours.
- Place the sausage in the smoker and smoke at 110F - 130F and 70% humidity for 6 hours. Gradually increase smoke temperature to 150-175F, and then all the way to 190F if needed, until internal meat temperature reaches 140F.
- For a drier sausage, dry for 3 days at 60-70F and 65-75% humidity or until desired weight loss is achieved.
- Store sausages at 50-59F and 75-80% humidity.
Notes
You can use a combination of pork and beef, or just beef or pork. All pork pepperoni is very, very good and is one of my favorite variations.
Nutrition
Calories: 196kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 24g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 78mg | Sodium: 1324mg | Potassium: 453mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 473IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 2mg