Handmade Romanian Skinless Sausages
We sometimes go the Farmer’s
Market in Hill St, Wellington on a Saturday morning. It is held in the car park
of St Paul’s Cathedral. This is good place to get the week’s vegies. Down the
end of the market is a stall that sells sausages. These are Romanian and
skinless. They cook them over a barbecue and will make you a burger, or you can buy
5 for $10, and take them home to cook. I took my sausages home.
I asked the guys doing the cooking
about the sausages. They were not very forthcoming - was I a competitor trying to
steal their families’ intellectual property? They did say the recipe was over
200 years old and was a family tradition. The sausages have pepper and pimento to
enhance the flavour, the other spices used are a closely guarded secret.
The sausages are low in fat
and shrivel as they cook. They taste good. The taste is quite mild. If I had a blind
tasting I may think I was being offered kofta. The minced meat needed to be
handled delicately during the cooking process, they firmed up as they cooked. I
would purchase these again. The guys cooking the sausages say they are best
cooked over charcoal, rather than the gas barbecue they were using. All sausages
are improved by a bit of smoky charcoal.
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Cost per kilo: Unknown, however 5 suasages are $10
