Texas Hot Links. Making gourmet sausage is easy with this Texas Smoked Hot Links recipe. Ground beef mixed with a perfect blend of seasonings, stuffed in casings, and smoked for ultimate flavor. Texas Hot Links, often called Texas Hot Guts or just Guts for short, are so named because the ground meat and spices are stuffed in natural casings made from intestines, usually pork, occasionally lamb.
At Rhea's Hot Links in Tyler, the fresh sausage is baked, not fried, and use natural pork casings, though hog casings are also common.
A hot link, also referred to as a "red link," is a type of sausage often associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, featured commonly as a part of American barbecue, soul food, and Cajun and Louisiana Creole cuisines.
It is sometimes referred to as a "Louisiana hot link".
You can cook Texas Hot Links using 22 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Texas Hot Links
- It's of Spicy Cure Paste.
- It's 1 of bottle of beer.
- It's 2 tbsp of coarsely ground black pepper.
- It's 2 tbsp of red pepper flakes.
- It's 2 tbsp of cayenne pepper.
- It's 2 tbsp of Hungarian paprika.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of kosher salt.
- You need 2 tbsp of mustard seeds.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of garlic, minced.
- You need 1 tbsp of garlic powder.
- You need 1 1/4 tsp of Prague powder #1 (6.25% sodium nitrate).
- Prepare 1 tsp of bay leaf, ground.
- Prepare 1 tsp of coriander.
- Prepare 1 tsp of dried thyme.
- You need 1 tsp of whole anise seed.
- It's 1 tsp of msg (I use Accent).
- Prepare 1/2 cup of non-fat dried milk (optional, see notes).
- Prepare of Ingredients.
- It's 6 lb of Boston butt (fat somewhat trimmed).
- You need 1 lb of fatty bacon.
- Prepare of natural hog casings.
- Prepare of apple wood chunks for smoking.
When I think barbecue, I think brisket and beans and potato salad and of course sausage!! To me, a barbecue just isn't a barbecue unless some type of sausage is involved. Often called "East Texas Caviar," these hot links in a small town near Mount Pleasant are their own thing. Not comparable to anything else. Драма. Режиссер: Eugene Lee. В ролях: Джон Бизли. Продюсер: Джон Бизли, Рэб Батлер, Тимоти Кристиан и др.
Texas Hot Links instructions
- Cube the pork into 1-inch pieces and dice the bacon. Set aside..
- Combine all of the spicy cure paste ingredients in a large bowl. Stir to combine..
- Add the pork cubes and bacon to the bowl and mix vigorously using your hands making sure all the pieces are well coated..
- Store in a covered container or gallon Ziploc Bags in the refrigerator overnight..
- In the morning, pull the marinated pork pieces out of the refrigerator and grind them using a medium plate. Rebag and put back in the refrigerator for two hours or the freezer for 1 hour..
- Grind a second time using a small plate. Mix briefly with your hand to distribute the spices but not enough to let the fat get greasy. If need be, refrigerate further. This is important to the final texture..
- Prepare the casings per instructions on the package and load the stuffer horn, tying off the end. Poke a small hole in the casing to help release any air bubbles..
- Stuff the casings. Do not stuff the casing tightly. Save some room to twist into links..
- Twist into 6-inch links. Poke small holes in the links to release any air bubbles that may swell during smoking..
- Be sure to fill the smoker waterpan up so the links don't dry out. Fire up the smoker and add a couple chunks of applewood. Hang the hot links..
- Smoke at 130°F for the first hour. Add more applewood if necessary..
- Smoke at 150°F for the 2nd hour. Add more applewood if necessary..
- Raise the smoker temperature to 190°F-200°F and continue to smoke the links to an internal temperature of 152°F. Add more applewood if necessary..
- Place the hot links in a container and seal. Allow to cool and place in the refrigerator to allow the smoke to mellow..
- Serve quickly grilled with mustard and pickled red onions. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/361412-easy-quick-pickled-red-onions.
Their hot links are what hot links ought to be. Texas Hot Links Recipe. by Global Cookbook. Form into sausage links and grill or possibly smoke. Place in bun and slather heavily with mustard. Greed, corruption and Jim Crow intertwine in the tense thriller East Texas Hot Links.
