Homemade Summer Sausage Ground Beef Recipe

Home­made Beef Sum­mer Sausage is a scrump­tious­ly sat­is­fy­ing and savory option for your appe­tiz­ers, meat and cheese trays, char­cu­terie boards or any time you want a deli­cious slice and serve snack! The recipe is sim­ple. It's an easy, gluten free prep ahead recipe. You'll be asked for this crave­able "smoked" sum­mer sausage recipe at every get together.

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Summer Sausage as a Gift

Hon­est­ly, this would be great in hol­i­day gift bas­kets, too. Or for Father's Day. No need to order from Hick­o­ry Farms. lol You'll net 5 stars on every review of your gift­ing genius when you sim­ply make your own!

Cre­ate fab­u­lous gift box­es and bas­kets for any hol­i­day or cel­e­bra­tion gift. Home­made Sum­mer Sausage will be a great cen­ter­piece to build the gift around. It's a great val­ue and so much more afford­able when you make your own.

Com­bine home­made sum­mer sausage with jars of home­made mus­tard, horse­rad­ish spreads, jams, crack­ers and your favorite cheeses.

Stick in some short­bread cook­ies or home­made can­dy. Add a pret­ty wood­en cut­ting board and your beau­ti­ful gift is com­plete. It will look great and taste so much bet­ter than any­thing you would have pur­chased at the store. It's more per­son­al and means a lot more when it comes from your own kitchen!

The Perfect Take Along for Parties, Reunions and Picnics

Take this easy beef sum­mer sausage to your next par­ty or fam­i­ly reunion. It will be the first thing to dis­ap­pear off the buf­fet table.

Add it to a build-your-own hoagie bar, beau­ti­ful char­cu­terie boards or meat and cheese trays. Chop it into out­ra­geous­ly deli­cious antipas­to sal­ads or "beef up" your has­sel­back potatoes!

Home­made Beef Sum­mer Sausage will wow your fam­i­ly and friends how­ev­er and wher­ev­er you serve it! It's a great val­ue and saves on the gro­cery bill and snack budget.

You con­trol the ingre­di­ents and spice lev­el, so you can serve and gift it with con­fi­dence in its qual­i­ty. Beef Sum­mer Sausage also freezes well, so you can always keep a roll or two on hand..

You'll be hard-pressed to ever buy anoth­er one of those "logs-o-meat" after indulging in this sim­ple and deli­cious beef sausage snack!

Home­made Beef Sum­mer Sausage is a snack­ing tra­di­tion in our home.  I hope you will enjoy it with your fam­i­ly, too!

The Ingredients

• medi­um lean ground beef, (I usu­al­ly use 80 ‑85%.)
• ten­der-quick/ cur­ing salt
• gar­lic powder
• coarse black pepper
• mus­tard seed
• liq­uid smoke (I pre­fer the hick­o­ry smoke vari­ety, but you can also get mesquite.)
• sug­ar

The ingre­di­ents to make Sum­mer Sausage at home are pret­ty straight for­ward, but I do want to talk about two of them. Some of you may have *liq­uid smoke in your pantry, all the time, like me. It can be used for lots of oth­er recipes, but it is essen­tial to Home­made Beef Sum­mer Sausage. You can use whichev­er brand you have access to. Most stores car­ry at least one brand. If you pre­fer to order it, this is *the liq­uid smoke I use, on Amazon.

Cur­ing salt or Ten­der-Quick salt can­not be sub­sti­tut­ed for with any oth­er type of salt. It's a blend of salt, sug­ar and oth­er ingre­di­ents that allow meat to cure, like a ham, bacon or sausages. I used to be able to buy it local­ly, but *I order it from Ama­zon, now.

For this tasty sum­mer sausage recipe, I like to use a medi­um lean beef (80–85%), so the sausage isn't as greasy as a lot of com­mer­cial brands, but still stays nice and moist.

How to Make Homemade Beef Summer Sausage

Mix­ing up the sum­mer sausage is as sim­ple as putting all the ingre­di­ents in a large mix­ing bowl and stir­ring until every­thing is even­ly dis­trib­uted and com­bined. It's impor­tant, but easy.

You want the mus­tard seed, salt and pep­per to be even­ly dis­trib­uted through­out the entire mix­ture. Hon­est­ly, I use my hands to mix it up. Just like with my Easy Meat­loaf Recipe, it's eas­i­er to get the ingre­di­ents blend­ed well.

Once the mix­ture is ready, divide it in half and roll each half into a log. Wrap each log in plas­tic wrap and leave in the fridge for 24 hours to allow the cur­ing salt to work its magic.

After 24 hours, unwrap each sausage and place it on a rimmed bak­ing sheet. Bake at 275° for 2 hours. Remove from the oven and cool on a cool­ing rack.

You could eat the sausage warm, but we pre­fer it cold. It slices well whether it's warm or cold, though, so def­i­nite­ly go with your preference.

Home­made Beef Sum­mer Sausage can be the deli­cious, gluten free cen­ter­piece of your hol­i­day meat and cheese trays or char­cu­terie boards. It's espe­cial­ly good with Ched­dar cheese, Smoked Gou­da or Col­by Jack cheese and but­tery crackers.

Beef Sum­mer Sausage is also a great snack on foot­ball Sun­day or when watch­ing movies with your fam­i­ly. Every­one loves it and it's a no-fuss make ahead treat that lets you spend your time enjoy­ing the fun.

Enjoy this sim­ple appe­tiz­er and I hope your hol­i­day cel­e­bra­tions are won­der­ful­ly blessed! Mer­ry hap­py fes­tiv­i­ties, my friend!

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Description

Beefy, salty and smoky snack­ing good­ness.  It has a pep­pery bite which you con­trol by how much pep­per you add.  Per­fect on char­cu­terie boards or meat and cheese plat­ters.  A great appe­tiz­er or snack that is so sim­ple and afford­able.  A great val­ue no mat­ter how you slice it and every­one will want your recipe.  Plus, it's nat­u­ral­ly gluten free.

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• 2 lbs med. lean ground beef (80–85%)
• 2 Table­spoons Mor­ton Ten­der Quick Salt ( or cur­ing salt of your choice)
• 1/2 tea­spoon gar­lic powder
• 1 Table­spoon mus­tard seed
• 2 — 3 tea­spoons coarse ground pep­per (to taste)
• 1 Table­spoon liq­uid smoke
• 1 Table­spoon gran­u­lat­ed sugar

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1. Place all the ingre­di­ents in a large mix­ing bowl
2. Use your hands to thor­ough­ly com­bine the ingre­di­ents and make sure they are even­ly distributed.
3. Divide the mix­ture in half and roll each half into a log 6 or 7 inch­es long.
4. Wrap each log in plas­tic wrap and refrig­er­ate them for 24 hours to let the cur­ing salt do its magic.
5. Unwrap the logs and place them on a rimmed bak­ing sheet.
6. Bake for 2 hours at 275°.
7. Cool and then refrigerate.
8. Slice and serve as desired.

Notes

No need to order sum­mer sausage from Hick­o­ry Farms.  Cre­ate your own fab­u­lous gift box­es and bas­kets at the hol­i­days.  Com­bine this home­made sum­mer sausage with jars of home­made mus­tard, jams, crack­ers and your favorite cheeses.  Stick in some short­bread cook­ies or home­made can­dy.  Add a pret­ty wood­en cut­ting board and your beau­ti­ful gift is com­plete.  It will taste so much bet­ter and mean so much more because it came from your own kitchen.

• Prep Time: 5 min­utes
• Cook Time: 2 hours
• Cat­e­go­ry: Appe­tiz­er, Snack, Beef
• Method: bak­ing
• Cui­sine: Amer­i­can

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