Sausage Review - we review sausages

So keeping with the current "other than pork" adventure, we tried some of those Venison, Red Wine & Pork sausages from Sainsburys...

Very, very meaty and a good chew but extremely sweet and sticky. The red currant jelly just powers it way through and I found it a "tadge" overpowering. The residue from this in the pan blackened quickly and stuck itself to the outside of the sausages.

These sausages are 80% meat in natural casings and when cooked up they do have a pretty firm and solid texture with a "gamey note", but the level of red current flavour hides this unfortunately.

Now as we've said before about Sainsbury's sausages we've sampled, please don't get us wrong, they are a well made sausage, and they cook up very well and retain a good succulence, but, these are by far too sweet.

Eaten cold the over sweetness and stickiness was still evident and firmly detracted from what could have been a good sausage!

Not something we would probably buy again...

Sainsbury's Taste the Difference - Venison & Pork (Nov 2012)

Here's the sample details:
110x25mm before cooking, 95x25mm after.
58g before cooking, 46g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 13% & weight loss of approx 20%.
6 in a 350g pack at £2.79 (approx £7.98/kg))

  

 
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