Homemade Chicken Sausage {Roasted Peppers and Basil}
Chicken thighs are deboned and ground into a delicious homemade sausage with roasted red peppers and basil.
Ingredients
- 5 Chicken Thighs Bone in, skin on
- 1/2 cup roasted red pepper
- 2 tbsp fresh basil paste
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Debone the chicken thighs and cut each thigh into eight sections.
- Run the chicken thighs through a meat grinder.
- Mix the ground chicken with the other ingredients.
- Fry a small patty of the sausage mix to test for seasoning.
- Adjust the salt and pepper of the main batch of sausage as needed.
- Stuff the chicken sausage into casings.
- Grill sausages with Medium heat (or cook in oven) to an internal temperature of 165F.
Notes
The trick to making a great chicken sausage is to use thighs and to leave the skin on before grinding.
Sausage of any kind needs a significant fat content or it will come out dry and crumbly. There is just enough fat in the skin of the chicken thighs to make this sausage great!