Chestnut
Meats (Cheshire) - Goat
Not the usual...and
we like the unusual...so bring on
the goat sausage...
We'd picked up a pack of Chestnut
Meats Gluten Free Goat Sausage
in our travels, probably at a farm
shop, but I cannot for the life of
me recall from where exactly...but
that fact aside...we thought we
would give them a go even with a few
reservations from one of the younger
team members.
The labelling and web site advise
that they are gluten free, and low
in fat, plus also being low in
cholesterol. Healthy stuff
then it would appear...
86% goat, reared and butchered in
the UK.
These goat sausages first off, are
in collagen cases (rather than
natural skins) which isn't something
I'm personally fond of, and having
had differing results when cooking
such, we pan fried half the pack,
and grilled the remainder.
The pan fried samples all ruptured
and split badly. The cases
became particularly soft and the
contents became really wet taking up
the oil in the pan. The grilled
samples however faired better and
held nicely together. Perhaps
grilling (or oven baking) is the
best way to go with these we'd
recommend.
Big numbers for shrinkage and weight
loss unfortunately. The
grilling cooking method probably ran
off a bit more moisture than pan
frying would, thus the weight loss.
The texture of the samples did vary
but were all on the soft and loose
side of what we would normally
expect in a sausage.
Taste-wise quite meaty, but sadly
there was not much seasoning to be
honest.
Eaten cold, not bad but the sausage
texture was still quite soft and
although tasted OK, they wouldn't be
something we would purchase again.
Chestnut Meats (Cheshire) - Goat
(Jun 2015)
Here's the
sample details:
110x22mm before cooking, 100x20mm
after.
48g before cooking, 32g after.
That's a shrinkage of 17% & weight
loss of approx 23%.
6 sausages in a 302g tray
(Sorry, price not available at time
of review)
www.chestnutmeats.co.uk