Kovbasa

Name: Kovbasa
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Ukrainian
Ingredients: 1kg pork shoulder, minced; 200g pork fat, minced; 5 cloves garlic, minced; 1.5 tsp salt; 1 tsp black pepper; 1/2 tsp marjoram; sausage casings as needed

Ukrainian home-made pork and garlic sausage — fresh, smoky and deeply garlicky, grilled or roasted. Simmering the sausages in water first, before they ever meet the grill, cooks them through evenly so the grill only needs to add colour and char.

Total time

65 min

Prep

30 min

Cook

35 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Ukrainian

Ingredients

1kgpork shoulder, minced

200gpork fat, minced

5 clovesgarlic, minced

1.5 tspsalt

1 tspblack pepper

1/2 tspmarjoram

sausage casingsas needed

Instructions

Mix all ingredients very well. Refrigerate 2 hours.

Rinse and soak casings in water 30 minutes.

Fill casings with meat mixture, tying every 15cm.

Simmer sausages in water for 20 minutes.

Grill or roast at 200°C for 15 minutes until browned. Serve with mustard.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

612

Protein

62.8g

Fat

37.5g

Carbs

1.6g

Fiber

0.2g

Sodium

872mg

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