This delicious venison, garlic, fennel and red wine sausage is a one of my all time favourites. It is great barbecued especially over coals, or even used to make meatballs and served with spaghetti and a rich tomato sauce.
Sausages like these are great way to introduce fussy-eaters to game meat and make a fantastic gift for friends.
Venison garlic fennel and red wine sausages
Venison and red wine give a deep rich flavour with the fennel providing a lighter note.
Servings: 6 kg
Equipment
- Meat grinder
- Sausage stuffer
Ingredients
- 4.6 kg venison diced in 1" cubes
- 1.5 kg beef fat diced in 1" cubes
- 1½ – 2 cups dry red wine shiraz, chianti, etc.
- 91 – 122 grams salt non-iodized
- 4 tbsp fennel seeds
- 4½ tbsp garlic powder
- ¼ cup fresh parsley finely chopped
- 1 tbsp freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Ensuring the meat and fat is very cold, pass it through the grinder, using the coarse plate.
- Mix the salt, herbs and spices into the meat/fat mixture.
- Ensuring the mixture is still cold, pass it through the grinder a second time.
- Ensuring the red wine is icy cold, add it the mixture.
- Hand mix the all of the ingredients very thoroughly until it has formed a sticky paste.
- Form a small patty (or one for each tast-tester) and cook over medium heat. Taste, and adjust seasoning of the mixture accordinly.
- Cover and place in the fridge overnight.
- Prepare the sausage stuffer and sheep casings.
- Fill the sausage stuffer and case the sausages.
- Return cased sausages to the fridge overnight to dry and firm. Before cooking and packaging for the freezer.
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