Cool Sausage Recipes: Main Dishes for Beginning Chefs
Super Duper Sausage The main dish is where you start when planning a meal It's the most important part Then you choose salads side dishes and desserts to go with the main dish Sausage is a great base for many main dishes It is a favorite meat of people all over the world It's easy to make tasty to eat and there are tons of ways to prepare it
There are many kinds of sausage and many ways to cook it Fry up a sweet blueberry breakfast sausage Make a tasty sausage gyro Chow down on an apple sausage salad Try all of the sausage recipes in this book Then think of your own ways to cook sausage The possibilities are endless
I SAUSAGE What’s not to love about sausage Sausage is ground meat stuffed in a casing Pork beef chicken and turkey can all be used to make sausage Find out how to pick the best sausage for your recipes Fresh sausage is made from fresh meat It must be cooked thoroughly before eating it Italian pork sausage breakfast sausage and bratwurst are some fresh sausages Smoked sausage is preserved with smoke from a wood fire Kielbasa is one of the most popular kinds Cooked sausage is made with fresh meat and then fully cooked Common cooked sausages include hot dogs and liver sausage Dry sausage keeps for a long time and is often eaten cold Salami and summer sausage are kinds of dry sausage 6
HANDLING THE MEAT Thaw any frozen sausage in a bowl filled with water Wash thawed sausage under running water Pat it dry with a towel KEEP IT CLEAN Wash your hands before and after touching the meat Wash any utensils that touched raw meat separately from other dishes 7 STORING THE MEAT Most sausage needs to be stored in the refrigerator If it does the label will say keep refrigerated COOKING THE MEAT Fresh sausage and some smoked sausage must be cooked before you can eat it Cook the sausage until there is no pink left Pink meat or juice means the sausage is uncooked
