Ingredients: 666 gm Pork shoulder (after removing skin) (approx. 20% fat) 334 gm Pork belly meat (after removing skin) (approx. 50% fat) 30 gm White wine – preferably Spanish – in truth, I use what I have to hand. 30 gm Water 12 gm Garlic cloves 5 gm Smoked sweet paprika – I use Pimentón de la Vera dulce 5 gm Smoked hot paprika – I use Pimentón de la Vera picante 10 gm Murcian paprika 2 gm Oregano – dried 20 gm Salt
Chicken bog as a dish appears to have originated in the low country of South Carolina around Myrtle Beach. It was the retirement plan for old laying hens (which goes to show that some retirement plans are better than others). It is in between a pilaf and a stew in consistency and was an economical way to feed a crowd. I re-imagined it as a sausage patty. I used rice to carry the flavor of chicken stock. The rice modifies the texture of the sausage and if the sausage is made into patties, it will form a thin crispy starch layer on the outside when fried. The amount of cooked rice added as a ratio of the overall sausage can be varied according to taste and texture desired.
I love a sausage roll but blimey, you kiss a few frogs before you find a prince! Too many are absolutely dire; the sausage meat is like meat paste and what is it with that pastry that’s neither short nor puff and is similar in texture to cardboard? I guess people tolerate it because they’re relatively cheap and they’re convenient.
As sausagemeat can be made without any fancy equipment they’re a great project for making at home. I would normally mince the pork myself to make these but to illustrate my point I’m using bought pork mince for these. You could get this from your butcher, or as in this case, the local supermarket. If it’s from your butcher ask for 80/20 visible lean. From the supermarket, buy the 20% fat pork mince, not the 5% fat one.
I assembled what I needed for the sausagemeat, most of the spices in the spice dabba won’t be used on this occasion but they do add a bit of colour to the photo!
The ingredients for each kilogram of pork mince are:
280gm Water 180gm Rusk 22gm Cornflour 18gm Salt 4gm Ground white pepper 2gm Ground black pepper 1.5gm Ground nutmeg 1.5gm Ground ginger 1.5gm Ground coriander 0.5gm Ground mace 3gm Rubbed sage
To make things easier, there is a calculator at the end of this post.
