Polish sausage too salty - can they be saved?

WoodlawnSmoker · March 23, 2014, 10:01:41 AM

I made up a small batch of some Polish sausage yesterday, smoked and cooked them in the Bradley. Everything about them is perfect, consistency, moisture, overall taste, but they are too darned salty. Is it possible to save them somehow, boiling perhaps? Just a thought, it would be a shame to waste.

RedJada · March 23, 2014, 10:21:48 AM

Good idea to taste before stuffing so you can make adjustments then. Maybe use them in a gumbo or something like that?

WoodlawnSmoker · March 23, 2014, 10:30:26 AM

Yeah, lesson learned about tasting first. The gumbo is a good idea.

pensrock · March 23, 2014, 10:39:25 AM

I think if you boiled them when cooking and added a couple cut up potatoes it would help. Potatoes will attract salt. Or like stated before, use them in other dishes.

pjplovedog · March 23, 2014, 12:39:15 PM

I have had something similar happen, and I used them finely diced to add flavor to cooked bean dishes, soups, chili, as a mix-in to flavor a lot of different dishes sort of as a flavoring/seasoning. Just watch the salt in the rest of the dish, and it can work out well.
I found when I cooked them in something, the salt level really evened out quite a lot.
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pikeman_95 · March 23, 2014, 04:18:11 PM

I like to take on of my smoked sausages and put it in a food processor with a can of low sodium mushroom soup and blend it until everything is mush. Now use it to make up the base for a batch of scalloped potatoes. The smoked flavor is just fantastic and make some great potatoes.

tskeeter · March 24, 2014, 11:31:15 AM

Quote from: WoodlawnSmoker on March 23, 2014, 10:01:41 AM
I made up a small batch of some Polish sausage yesterday, smoked and cooked them in the Bradley. Everything about them is perfect, consistency, moisture, overall taste, but they are too darned salty. Is it possible to save them somehow, boiling perhaps? Just a thought, it would be a shame to waste.

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rajzer · April 04, 2014, 11:50:49 AM

When you first taste a freshly smoked sausage, it always seems to taste more salty. Usually after 2 days, all the other flavours come through and temper the salt taste. Did you use more than 2% salt?