Moscow sausage at home: calorie content, recipes with photos, videos

"Moskovskaya" sausage, uncooked smoked or boiled-smoked, is one of the most popular in Russia since the times of the USSR. It was in short supply then, but today you can buy it at any grocery store. It is quite possible to make "Moscow" sausage at home.

Homemade sausage is as good as store-bought sausage

Composition and calorie content of "Moscow" sausage

100 g of the product contains 17 g of protein, 39 g of fat, 0 g of carbohydrates. Caloric content is 470 kcal.

How to cook "Moscow" sausage at home

Cooking this delicacy with your own hands is not such a difficult process, but you need to be patient, use high-quality ingredients, and strictly follow the recipe. The finished product has a pleasant smell and taste, and has a dense consistency. You can even take as a basis the recipe for "Moscow" sausage according to GOST 1938.

General technology for the manufacture of "Moscow" sausage

To prepare "Moscow" sausage, you need high quality lean beef, completely stripped of veins. In addition, you will need pork fat, which, according to GOST, is taken from the backbone. Lard is cut into small cubes (6 mm), mixed into small sausage minced beef. To make it easier to cut the bacon in even parts, it is frozen.

Minced meat is crushed using a meat grinder with a fine grid. It should turn out to be homogeneous, viscous. All components must be evenly distributed in the mass, therefore, thorough kneading is required after adding bacon and spices.

From spices, ordinary and nitrite salt will be required, as well as a little granulated sugar, ground or crushed pepper, nutmeg or cardamom.

For the "Moscow" sausage use a ham collagen casing with a diameter of about 4-5 cm. A polyamide or lamb blue is suitable.

GOST requires beef, bacon and spices

There are several ways to prepare this delicacy. Sausage is boiled-smoked, uncooked smoked, dry-cured.

The cooking process consists of several stages (drying, boiling, smoking, curing) and generally takes quite a lot of time - up to 25-35 days.

"Moscow" sausage at home in accordance with GOST

The recipe for "Moskovskaya" sausage cooked and smoked in accordance with GOST allows you to make the product as close as possible in taste characteristics to the original.

Ingredients:

• lean beef of the highest grade - 750 g;
• backbone fat - 250 g;
• nitrite salt - 13.5 g;
• salt - 13.5 g;
• sugar - 2 g;
• white or black ground pepper - 1.5 g;
• ground cardamom - 0.3 g (or nutmeg).

Cooking minced meat and filling the casing:

1. Cut the beef into pieces, add ordinary and nitrite salt, granulated sugar, mix with your hands and put in the refrigerator for salting for 3-4 days.
2. Make fine, viscous mince from salted beef. It is best to use a cutter for this - a special device for preparing sausage mass. It allows you to make the perfect minced meat. If it is absent, take a meat grinder and install a fine grate with 2-3 mm holes on it.
3. The fat should be frozen before use so that it is easier to grind. It needs to be cut into 5-6 mm cubes.
4. Add pepper and cardamom to the minced beef, as well as pieces of bacon. Stir the mass with a mixer until the lard and spices are evenly distributed. Compact the minced meat, cover with foil and put in the refrigerator for two days to ripen.
5. Next, prepare a sausage syringe, collagen casing and linen tourniquet for bandaging.
6. Fill the syringe with minced meat.
7. Tie a collagen casing at one end.
8. Put the shell on the syringe, fill it tightly with minced meat and tie it with a tourniquet from the other end. You can use a meat grinder with a special attachment.
9. Send loaves of sausage to the refrigerator for two days.

Heat treatment procedure:

1. Drying is carried out first. Place the loaves in the oven so that they do not touch each other, at 60 degrees with airflow. Dry for 30-40 minutes.
2. The next step is cooking. Place a container of water in the oven, place a wire rack with sausage loaves over it, cook for 40 minutes at 75 ° C without convection.
3. Further, carrying out frying. Insert a probe with a thermometer into one of the sausages to control the temperature. Increase the oven to 85 ° C. The inside temperature of the sausage must be brought to 70 ° C. When the reading reaches the desired value, the thermometer will beep.
4. Then transfer the Moscow sausage to a cold-smoked smokehouse and smoke at 35 ° C for three hours.

The sausage needs to be allowed to rest, after which it can be tasted

You can clearly see the process of making Moskovskaya sausage at home on the video.

The recipe for boiled-smoked "Moscow" sausage

Ingredients:

• beef - 750 g;
• backbone fat - 250 g;
• salt - 10 g;
• nitrite salt - 10 g;
• water - 70 ml;
• ground nutmeg - 0.3 g;
• ground black pepper - 1.5 g;
• granulated sugar - 2 g.

Sausage preparation procedure:

1. Scroll the meat through a meat grinder using a wire rack with holes 2-3 mm in diameter.
2. Pour in water, pour in ordinary salt and nitrite, mix well.
3. Kill the resulting mass with a blender.
4. Chop the bacon.
5. Add lard, sugar, pepper and nutmeg to the meat mass. Mix thoroughly until the consistency is as homogeneous as possible.
6. Fill the shell with a mass, tamping it as tightly as possible. This is done using a meat grinder with a special attachment or a sausage syringe. Keep hanging for 2 hours at room temperature.
7. Then carry out heat treatment in a smokehouse. First dry at 60 ° C until the inside temperature of the loaf reaches 35 ° C. Then smoke at 90 ° C to 55 ° C inside the sausage.
8. Next, boil the product in water or steam it at 85 ° C until fully cooked - until the inside of the loaf reaches 70 ° C.
9. Cool the sausage under a cold shower, put in a bag and place in the refrigerator for 8 hours, for example, overnight.
10. Dry the sausage in a smokehouse for four hours at a temperature of 50 degrees. Then put the product in the refrigerator overnight.

If the technology is followed, the home-made product is very close in taste to the finished one.

Dried "Moscow" sausage

It is quite possible to cook dry-cured sausage "Moskovskaya" at home.

Ingredients:

• premium beef - 300 g;
• freshly salted semi-fat pork - 700 g;
• nitrite salt - 17.5 g;
• salt - 17.5 g;
• ground allspice - 0.5 g;
• ground red pepper - 1.5 g;
• ground cardamom - 0.5 g (can be replaced with nutmeg);
• sugar - 3 g;
• cognac - 25 ml.

Sausage preparation procedure:

1. Cut the beef into chunks, add 6 g of salt and nitrite salt each, mix. Salt for a week at 3 ° C.
2. Turn the salted meat in a meat grinder with a grid with a hole diameter of 3 mm. Stir the resulting minced meat for three minutes so that the mass is as homogeneous as possible. For the best effect, use a blender for this.
3. Semi-fat pork should be used slightly frozen. Cut it into cubes about 8 mm in size.
4. Combine beef with pork and stir.Add the remaining salt (regular and nitrite), red and allspice, cardamom, sugar, stir again until smooth. Pour in brandy and mix again. Spices and pork should be evenly distributed throughout the mass. The minced meat temperature should not exceed 12 ° C, ideally it is 6-8 ° C.
5. Put the sausage mass in the refrigerator for three hours.
6. Prepare a shell with a diameter of about 5 cm. Fill it tightly with minced meat. Put the loaves in the refrigerator and keep at about 4 degrees for a week.
7. Then dry the sausage for 30 days at an air humidity of 75% and a temperature of 14 ° C. The finished product should have a weight loss of approximately 40%.

Dry-cured sausage must go through a long drying process

The recipe for uncooked smoked "Moscow" sausage

Ingredients:

• lean premium beef - 750 g;
• unsalted bacon - 250 g;
• nitrite salt - 35 g;
• ground black pepper - 0.75 g;
• crushed black pepper - 0.75 g;
• sugar - 2 g;
• nutmeg - 0.25 g.

Sausage preparation procedure:

1. Cut the beef into pieces, add sugar and nitrite salt, mix and leave to salt for 7 days at a temperature of about 3 ° C.
2. Pre-freeze the bacon and cut into small cubes.
3. A week later, when the meat is salted, turn it in a meat grinder. The diameter of the lattice holes is 3 mm. Mix thoroughly for about 6 minutes.
4. Add pepper and nutmeg, stir again.
5. Put bacon in the sausage mince and mix again, achieving a uniform consistency - even distribution of the fat in the mass.
6. Place the minced meat tightly in a suitable container and refrigerate for a day.
7. Fill the casing tightly with the mass. Its diameter is about 4.5 cm. Use a sausage syringe or meat grinder for filling. Put the products in the refrigerator for a week.
8. After 7 days, place the sausage in a cold smoked smokehouse and smoke at a smoke temperature of about 20 ° C for 5 days. Can be cooked for 2 days at 35 ° C.
9. After the end of the smoking process, dry the products at an air humidity of 75% and a temperature of about 14 ° C for a month. The sausage should lose about 40% in weight.

Raw smoked product looks very appetizing

Storage rules

Sausage "Moskovskaya" can be stored for quite a long time due to its low moisture content. Therefore, it was she who was usually recommended to take on long trips.

It is best to store it in a dark place at 4-6 ° C and 70-80% humidity. For uncooked smoked, a temperature of about 12 ° C is permissible if the casing is not opened.

Conclusion

Sausage "Moskovskaya" raw smoked, boiled-smoked and dry-cured can be cooked with your own hands. Homemade sausage, as lovers of such delicacies assure, turns out to be tastier than shop sausage.

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