Chicken Apple Sausage

[Gunslinger]

Made these this weekend. The wife is working her way through 4 bushels of apples for apple butter and apple pie filling, and I thought I'd do her a favor and take 6 apples off her hands.
So this recipe called for apple juice too and I didn't have any, and wasn't about to try to make it. Did have a bottle of Squirt though, so I used that.

This was my first time grinding chicken, and I must confess, I hate it. It has to be darn near froze solid, and I don't care for the texture at all. And I ground through a 1/4 inch plate too. Did a fry test and it tasted really good, but I hate the texture.

Here it is right after cutting the links.


And here's where things went really south. The grill was hot, hot. As soon as the chicken sausage hit the grate, the casing shrunk up and pushed half the damn sausage out. I think they need to be grilled pretty slow, to keep this from happening. I have another batch that I'll try again.
Anyway, they taste great, but the texture sucks. It's just too much like a paste, but I definitely like the flavor. Very very good.


Thanks for looking. If you have a different idea as to why they shrank so bad, let me know.
BTW, did I say that I hated the texture?

[Uncle-Honky]

Dude... Gunny so how was the texture?? lol they sound great and look awesome ! I did experience some shrinkage in my jerk chicken sausage.

[erain]

neat... i seen some chicken/apple sausage that caught my eye and i bought some to try out. it is emerils brand sausage and if that is an indicator at all, i bet its great!!!

[Fishawn]

This is on my list to try also, sounds great!

I grill my chichen sausage indirect with NO heat under them, low n slow and the casing shrinkage is minimal.

Points for creativity and telling us honestly how you feel about the ground chicken texture... It is kinda gross!

[Slanted88]

I like it! Nice.....Texture, hell I eat oysters so I reckon I can put up with most anything!

[wutang]

Sounds good anyway. I might still have to give it a shot

[Texas-Hunter]

Not bad for a first time run... I think if you pick up a 1/2" plate you will be happy with the texture..

[Gunslinger]

Thanks all. BTW I think the texture sucks.

Not bad for a first time run... I think if you pick up a 1/2" plate you will be happy with the texture..

Thanks TH. I'll pick one up. The recipe said to regrind through 3/16 inch plate. I see no reason for this as the 1/4 inch plate makes paste out of it anyway. So I didn't regrind.