Follow basic smoked sausage preparation practices when making this sausage.
- Clean and sanitize all of your equipment.
- Keep your meat and grinder parts super cold (below 34F) at all times
- Any liquid that is added to the mince needs to be ice cold
- Mix your very chilled meat and seasonings till the mince becomes very tacky
- Stuff the mince into sausage casings and prick out any air pockets
- Refrigerate your sausage overnight to allow the cure to work
- The next day follow a low and slow smoking schedule.
- Cook sausages low and slow to an internal of 145f
- Once the internal temp has been reached place the sausages in a cold-water bath to cool down and let them bloom at room temperature for 3-4 hours
Here are a few things you might find useful when making a smoked sausage
- Alligator Meat
- Digital Smokers (I use the model 4D WiFi)
- Bella’s Cold Smoke Generator
- Kamado Ceramic Grill
- High Quality Natural Casings (AA Grade)
- MK4 Thermapen (Accurate Thermometer)
- Chef Knife – KOTAI (for 15% off use discount code – 2guys )
- Sausage Pricker
- Meat Grinders
- Meat Mixers
- Sausage Stuffers
- Stuffing Horn Cleaner
- Butcher Twine & Dispenser
- Small accurate Scale for spices
- Large Capacity Scale (33 pounds)
- Drying rack and tray
- Custom Cutting Board
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Smoked Alligator Sausage
A great way to enjoy South Louisiana gator
How much do you want to make? 2270 grams
Ingredients
- 908 g Alligator Meat
- 908 g Pork Shoulder
- 454 g Pork Back Fat
- 20 g Onion chopped
- 30 g garlic chopped
- 30 g celery chopped
- 30 g bell pepper chopped
- 26 g green onion chopped
- 15 g fresh parsley chopped
- 4 g fresh sage chopped
- 30 g salt
- 5.7 g Insta cure #1
- 11 g black pepper
- 15 ml Crystal Hot Sauce
- 68 grams non fat dry milk powder
- 3 g sodium erythorbate This is a cure accelerator. If you add this ingredient, you can cook your sausages immediately after stuffing. If you omit this ingredient you have to wait 12 hours to cook this sausage
- 1 cup ice water beer also works well
- hog casings
Optional Ingredients for an even more "Cajun" flavor
- 7 g paprika
- 10 g cayenne pepper
- 4 g fresh thyme
Instructions
- Clean meat from any silver skin and arteries. Chill the meat so that the temperature is below 34f (1.1c)
- Prepare all of the vegetables and spices and set to the side.
- Grind chilled meat and fat on a medium course plate. Rechill. Keep the temp under 34f (1.1c)
- grind the chilled meat again along with all of the vegetables and spices though a medium course plate.
- Combine the rest of the ingredients (liquids, binder) and mix till the meats turns into a sticky batter. The meat mixture will stick to your hand when you grab a small handful of it and turn your hand upside down.
- Stuff mixture in casings and tie off to desired size. If you notice any air pockets, be sure to prick them out
- Smoke the sausage using incremental adjustments in temperature to slowly bring the sausage up to a core temperature of 160°F.
- If you have a digital smoker this is a great cooking schedule:1.5 hours at 100f (37.7c) – this dries out the sausage (leave the dampers wide open)1.5 hours at 125f (51.6c) – this is when I start applying smoke1 hour at 155f (68.3c)1 hour at 175f (79.4c)then I bump up to 200f (93.3c) until I reach an internal of 145f (62.7c)
- If you are cooking on a pit or offset here's a different way:on indirect heat start smoking sausages while the pit is at 150f (65.5) and smoke for 3 hours.Increase the temperature to 200f (93.3c) and cook till you get to an internal of 145f (62.7c)
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