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Sausagemeat

Name: Sausagemeat
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 600 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 300 g belly (streaky) bacon; 300 g veal; 10 g salt; 1 g pepper

Sausagemeat is a mixture of fatty pork (belly bacon here) with leaner meat, all minced and seasoned.

In this version I have used veal as the additional meat.

233 K 3.4/5 (71 reviews)

15 min.

Easy

6.10 €

600 g

4 Ingredients

Last modified on: October 3^rd 2019

For 600 g, you will need:

1 300 g belly (streaky) bacon
2 300 g veal
3 10 g salt
4 1 g pepper
Total weight: 615 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 15 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Cut 300 g belly (streaky) bacon* and 300 g veal into medium-sized chunks.

I advise you to use smoked bacon to give your sausagemeat a more distinctive flavour.

* See translator's note below.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Mince the meat chunks, using the coarse setting.

Stage 3

Salt and pepper the minced meat and mix thoroughly. Your sausagemeat is ready.

Note the quantity of salt used: 16 g per kilogram of meat. If you are not making the same amount as in this recipe, you can use this small calculator:

Stage 4

Tip: you can also add a little Morteau sausage or other smoked sausage to the meat mixture (but remove the skin first). The smoked flavour will be more pronounced, but this is a matter of personal taste, of course.

Remarks

While sausagemeat is, in principal, a mixture of 2 kinds of meat, one fatty and one lean, this is only the basic idea. In France, every good "charcutier" (pork butcher) prepares his own, to a special recipe with his own meats and seasonings.

[Translator's note: French belly bacon ("lard" or "poitrine") is often sold unsliced as a large joint or diced. This is the equivalent of British "streaky" bacon, normally sold ready sliced. Back bacon - such a feature of the great British cooked breakfast - is just not a French thing. Cuts of meat, especially pork, are not always equivalent between the two cultures. I try to translate these on a case-by-case basis that doesn't always suit the website's (very clever) database, so please forgive any ambiguities and inconsistencies that might creep in as a result.].

Keeping: 1 or 2 day in the fridge, covered with plastic film. Freezes very well.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	80 RDI=30 %	0	210 RDI=30 %	2,250 RDI=110 %	9,430 RDI: 110 %
Per 100 g	10 RDI=5 %	0	30 RDI=5 %	370 RDI=20 %	1,540 RDI: 20 %

How much will it cost?

For 600 g : 6.10 €

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Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

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