Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage

Name: Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp freshly ground black pepper; 283 grams feta cheese, crumbled, divided; 12 servings Type of fire: Direct; 3 small heads garlic; 1 medium Grill heat: -high; 2 Tbsps juice from 1 to 2 lemons, chilled; 2 Tbsps kosher salt; 12 servings Natural hog casings, soaked in lukewarm water for at least 30 minutes and rinsed; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 2 Tbsps finely chopped fresh oregano; 2 Tbsps red wine vinegar, chilled; 59 milliliters finely chopped shallots; 2 kilograms pounds skin on, boneless chicken thighs, cubed

Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage is a gluten free main course. One serving contains 698 calories, 42g of protein, and 14g of fat. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. Head to the store and pick up skin on, wine vinegar, type of fire: direct, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the natural spices you could follow this main course with the Whiskey-Spiked Creamy Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.

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Oven

Cut top quarters off of heads of garlic.

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Garlic

Place garlic cloves, cut side down, in center of a sheet of aluminum foil and drizzle with olive oil. Seal foil and place directly on oven rack. Cook until cloves are browned and very soft, about 20 minutes.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Olive Oil

Clove

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Remove from the oven, let cool for 10 minutes, then squeeze cloves out of the skin into a small bowl.

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Clove

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Bowl

Oven

Combine garlic, chicken, 1/2 of the feta cheese, shallots, oregano, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Chill until ready to grind.

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Feta Cheese

Shallot

Whole Chicken

Oregano

Garlic

Pepper

Salt

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Bowl

Grind the mixture through a meat grinder, fitted with small die, into a bowl set in ice.

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Meat

Ice

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Meat Grinder

Bowl

Using paddle attachment of a standing mixer, mix on low speed for 1 minute.

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Blender

Add remaining feta, vinegar, lemon juice, increase speed to medium, and mix until liquid is incorporated, about 1 minute more.

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Lemon Juice

Vinegar

Feta Cheese

Form a small sausage patty; place rest of sausage mixture in refrigerator. Cook patty in a small frying pan over medium-high heat until cooked through. Taste and adjust seasonings of sausage if necessary.

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Seasoning

Sausage

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Frying Pan

Stuff sausage into hog casings and twist into 6-inch links. Refrigerate until ready to cook.

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Sausage

Light one chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with gray ash, pour out and spread the coals evenly over entire surface of coal grate. Set cooking grate in place, cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Clean and oil the grilling grate. Grill over medium-high direct heat until sausage registers 160°F when an instant read thermometer is inserted in middle of link.

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Sausage

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