A sausage like no other. This Sichuan sausage is pungent, spicy, tingly and smoky. It's dried, so the texture is harder, perfect for fried rice, steamed on top of rice or just eat it as a side dish with a glass of Chinese white wine. Perfect drinking snack.
Prep Time1 hourhr
Course: Pork, Side Dish
Cuisine: Chinese
Servings: 13Sausages
Author: Choochoo-ca-Chew
Ingredients
3-1/2lbPork30-40% Fat, I used a big slab of pork belly
Seasoning
2TBspVodkaOr mix vodka and ShaoXing for more authentic flavor
1/2TBspSugar
1-1/2TBspSalt
Spices
3TBspChili Flake
3TBspSichuan Peppercorn
1/4tspWhite Peppercorn
1/8tspCumin
1/4tspCinnamon
Instructions
Cut the pork into 1/2" strips.
Blend all the spices in a blender or grind with a mortar.
Add the spice powder and seasoning to the pork strips and mix well.
Stuff the sausages and tie knots on both ends.
Prick holes on the sausages and tie into sections with cotton strings.
Hang somewhere with good airflow and let dry for 3 days.
Smoke the sausages if desired: start a fire and set up a rack to hang your sausages by the fire, where the smoke will hit. Add leaves of a cypress tree to the fire to start the smoke, let it smoke for 30 minutes to an hour.