Sunday, February 18, 2018

Smoked Javelina Mexican Red Pepper Sausage 2/12/18



We both got our Javelina with our bows during the Arizona HAM (handgun, archery or muzzleloader) hunt. We bought left over tags for this hunt. They were in a huge area of Catsclaw bushes. We packed them back to the truck and were back at home within 10 minutes where we had Juniper trees to hang them in for field dressing.

22 Pounds of Javelina ground with a 3/16” disk
4 Pounds Grated Cheddar Cheese
3 oz Mexican Oregano Dried Ground (Tampico brand)
1 oz Mexican Cumin Dried Ground (El Guapo brand)
¾ oz Cilantro Dried Ground (McCormick brand)
¼ cup Black Pepper Ground (McCormick brand)
1/8 cup White Pepper Ground (McCormick brand)
1/3 cup Cayenne Red Pepper Dried Ground (Watkins brand)
1/8 cup Dark Chili Powder (Kroger brand)
1 oz Arbol Chili Powder Dried (El Guapo brand)
1 cup Dried Garlic Powder (McCormick brand)
1 cup Dried Onion Powder (McCormick brand)
16 oz Pickled Sliced Jalapeno pureed in food processor (Mezzetta brand)
4 cups Crushed Ice
1 cups Water RO
¼ cup Molasses (Grandma’s brand)
½ cup Sea Salt Fine Ground
1 cup Sugar Raw

We ground the sea salt, cilantro, black pepper and red pepper to a powder with a small blade type coffee, spices and nut grinder. Then blended all the dried spices together in the Hamilton Beech Big Mouth Food Processor with the cutting blade so it is all mixed together and there were no clumps. We poured the spice mix into a bowl and put the pickled sliced jalapeƱos and juice in the processor. When it was pureed we added the spices in with the molasses, ice and water to rehydrate the dried powder.

In a huge 2 foot diameter stainless steel bowl we put all the ground meat and then spooned the spices mix evenly over the top. We hand mixed the meat and spices for about 5 minutes until everything looked very well mixed. Then we sprinkled the grated cheese over the meat mix and mixed it for another couple of minutes. It is late at night so the mix went back into the plastic storage containers and back into the refrigerator.


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