Chorizo Mexican Sausage Recipe 475

Steps:

• Have the ground pork chilled. (Note: you can grind your own pork butt, but buy some extra fat back to be sure the final product is not too dry, about 1/3 fat to 2/3 lean meat.) Spread the meat on a cookie tray. Sprinkle the rest of the ingredients evenly over the meat. Knead the spices into the meat until well mixed. Rubber gloves work well for this. Let the sausage meat season for a couple days in your refrigerator. Then shape them into patties that can be wrapped and frozen. Optionally, if your meat grinder has a sausage-tube adapter, you can buy casings from the local butcher and churn the meat into the casings, twisting every five inches or so to form individual sausages. Lay them on a tray in the refrigerator for 4-5 days, turning each day so the casings dry. Chorizos can be smoked like any other pork sausage.

Steps:

• Place the pork, Aleppo pepper, chili powder, garlic, salt, black pepper, oregano, cumin, cloves, and coriander into a bowl, and lightly toss the pork with the seasonings until thoroughly blended. Cover the bowl, and refrigerate the meat, your meat grinder's head assembly, and grinder hopper for 1 hour.
• Fill a large mixing bowl with ice cubes, and place a smaller metal bowl in the ice cubes to catch the ground meat. Assemble the chilled meat grinder, and grind the pork and seasonings using a coarse cutting plate. Return ground meat to refrigerator for 30 minutes. Lightly stir the ground pork with the vinegar and water until thoroughly mixed, form into patties, and refrigerate overnight, covered, to let flavors develop.
• Heat vegetable oil in a heavy skillet over medium-low heat, and pan-fry the patties until browned and no longer pink in the middle, 5 to 8 minutes per side.