Chicken and Shrimp, with feta cheese, and jalapeno pepper

[tristar]

Hello old friends, a long time since I have posted anything but I made these last night and thought they were worth posting up as they were so tasty, whilst being quick and easy:






900 grams of cheap supermarket chicken mince (9% Fat)
350 grams of cooked shrimp, coarsely choppped
100 grams of Marinated Appetina feta cheese, the one in the jar with the oil and herbs, use the oil as well!
3 fresh Jalpeno peppers, seeds removed, and diced finely
4.5 grams of Accord,(a phosphate mix, available cheaply from your local asian shop, used for making fishballs etc)
1 level tablespoon of salt
1 1/2 teaspoons of freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons of dried sage
1 teaspoon of dried garlic powder

Just mix all the ingredients thoroughly until they become sticky, you may need to add a little cold water, then either stuff into sausage casings, or make small patties, leave overnight in the fridge and when you are ready, fry until golden.

These will need to be eaten within 2 or three days, if kept uncooked. Cooked they will last for about a week in the fridge.

Eat and Enjoy!

[wheels]

Welcome back Tristar. You may have not posted for a long time, but it's been worth the wait if it produces a recipe like this one.

It looks superb.

Phil

[tristar]

Thanks Phil,

After a night in the fridge, these proved to be quite mild, the fierceness of the jalapeno heat was replaced by the fruity side of their character. By the way, you don't notice any flavour from the shrimps, but their texture adds a lot to the mouth feel of the sausage. You may see another chicken based recipe this weekend as my fussy daughter doesn't like anything peppery or with chilly heat, and I have some more cheap chicken mince picked up his afternoon!

[quietwatersfarm]

warmest welcome back, feta just crumbled?

will be trying these out for sure

[tristar]

Hello John/Carrie,

Yes simply crumbled, I was looking for a range of sizes, some of the cubes were nearly whole as you can see, and some were so fine they melded into the bind!

Richard

[JerBear]

I don't think I would have thought of this combo of flavors but now that you mention it, it looks very very good!

[tristar]

The shrimp being rather bland don't add much flavourwise, but add an extra textural element, that is not to say that they don't taste good, they do!

[JerBear]

they look awesome...

[Laripu]

I never thought to use shrimp in a sausage, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. Thanks for the idea.

There are Chinese dumplings called shui mai that are mostly pork and some shrimp. They're essentially little pork and shrimp sausages inside rice dough wrappers. I think I might do some shui mai sausage one day, with a 4:1 ratio of pork to shrimp. Some chili peppers, garlic, and cilantro would round that off nicely.

[tristar]

My Indonesian wife makes a variety of Siew Mai, but subs chicken for the pork used in the Chinese variety, she was the inspiration for these sausages.

Indonesian Siew Mai are not prepared in wrappers, but simply formed into balls or stuffed into deseeded bitter melon a vegetable reminisent of a knobbly cucumber, then steamed together with cabbage, tahu, and potatoes and served with hard boiled eggs all topped with a delicious peanut sauce!

[Laripu]

My Indonesian wife makes a variety of Siew Mai, but subs chicken for the pork used in the Chinese variety, she was the inspiration for these sausages.

Indonesian Siew Mai are not prepared in wrappers, but simply formed into balls or stuffed into deseeded bitter melon a vegetable reminisent of a knobbly cucumber, then steamed together with cabbage, tahu, and potatoes and served with hard boiled eggs all topped with a delicious peanut sauce!

I guess Indonesia explains the use of chicken instead of pork.

It's funny, I'm Jewish, but I like pork. My wife's German Catholic, and prefers chicken.

Everything you described, bitter melon, peanut sauce etc, it all sounds perfectly delicious. I'll be right over four supper.

[wheels]

You pair are making my mouth water. It all sounds superb.

Phil

[Laripu]

You pair are making my mouth water. It all sounds superb.

I've got a suggestion for you, then, Phil. Eat some sausage.

[wheels]

I've eaten too many!

[Laripu]

I've eaten too many!

Well, if you're full, and the writing is making your mouth water, then either the writing is superbly descriptive or you've got an amazingly suggestible imagination... or both.

I think it's your imagination!

You know what Einstein said about imagination.