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Plain venison sausage

This is the simplest of simple sausages and a great place to start your home made sausage making journey. Follow my Beginners Guide to Sausage Making  and you really should not go wrong.

This is also the perfect sausage to get the kids involved in helping with, there should nothing in this that could possible scare them off from tasting it. Slap one on a slice of white bread, smother it in BBQ sauce (or tomato if you have to) and it’s just like being at Bunnings on Sunday arvo.

Plain venison sausages

These are simple plain sausages, perfect for serving slathered in sauce on a piece of sliced white bread.
Prep Time4 hours
Cook Time15 minutes
Resting Time2 days
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Contemporary Australian
Keyword: sausage, venison

Equipment

  • Meat grinder
  • Sausage stuffer

Ingredients

  • 4.5 kg venison
  • 1.5 kg beef fat
  • 1½-2 cups iced water
  • 90-120 grams salt non-iodized
  • 2 tbsp onion powder
  • 2 tbsp garlic powder

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.
  • Add the iced water.
  • 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

Venison garlic fennel and red wine sausages

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.

A wooden board loaded with dozens of venison sausages
A pile of venison, garlic, fennel and red wine sausages ready to be packaged and frozen

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.
Prep Time4 hours
Cook Time15 minutes
Resting Time2 days
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Contemporary Australian, Sausage
Keyword: sausage, venison
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
  • 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.

Venison and Sage Sausages

The addition of pancetta, fresh herbs and white wine gives these sausages a particular bright and fresh taste.

Venison and Sage Sausages

Crowd pleasing venison and sage sausages
Prep Time4 hours
Cook Time15 minutes
Resting Time2 days
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Contemporary Australian
Keyword: sausage, venison
Servings: 1.25 kg

Equipment

  • Meat grinder
  • Sausage stuffer

Ingredients

  • 844 grams venison 1" cubes
  • 268 grams pancetta diced
  • 136 grams beef fat 1" cubes
  • 65 ml dry white wine pinot gris, sauvignon blanc, etc.
  • 25 grams salt non-iodized
  • ¼ cup fresh parsley very finely chopped
  • ¼ cup fresh sage very finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp black pepper freshly cracked
  • 1 tbsp fresh rosemary very finely chopped
  • natural sheep casings

Instructions

  • Ensure the venison, pancetta and beef fat is very cold (almost frozen), and pass through the grinder using the coarse plate.
    844 grams venison, 136 grams beef fat, 268 grams pancetta
  • Mix the salt, fresh herbs and pepper through the ground meat.
    25 grams salt, ¼ cup fresh parsley, ¼ cup fresh sage, 1 tbsp black pepper, 1 tbsp fresh rosemary
  • Ensuring the mixture is still cold, pass it through the grinder a second time.
  • Ensuring the white wine is icy cold, add it the mixture.
    65 ml dry white wine
  • Hand mix the all of the ingredients very thoroughly until it has formed a sticky paste.
  • Cover and place in the fridge overnight.
  • Prepare the sausage stuffer and sheep casings.
    natural 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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