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Homemade Smoked Kielbasa

Homemade Smoked Kielbasa- Who knew making your own smoked kielbasa could be so easy!? | www.reformationacres.comSince we began butchering our own pork, we’ve had to experiment with recipes, trying different things for meats like bacon, ham, and sausages. We were very pleased with the homemade smoke kielbasa we made using the natural casings prepared from our hog.

In fact, I would easily call it spot on.

Before I show you my recipe, allow me to give you one to compare it to:

Doesn’t looking at that make the small effort worth the while?!

No GMO-free sticker on that sausage! And I’m sure that with the few ingredients in the recipe I’m sharing, homemade smoked kielbasa is not only more natural but more economical as well.

Homestead Hog Butchering Workshop

If you’d like to make pork butter with me along with many other amazing prepared and cured pork recipes including prosciutto, capicola, bacon, guanciale, pate,  rillettes, and more join us December 8-10 for our Homestead Hog Butchering Workshop in Brinkhaven, Ohio!

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Homemade Smoked Kielbasa

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Ingredients

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  • 14 feet of natural hog casings (buy hog casings here or learn how to prepare your own casings )
  • 4 pounds of ground pork
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 4 teaspoons sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon marjoram

Instructions

  1. Mix the pork with water, garlic, and seasonings. If you’d like to taste test, fry up a little piece and then adjust the seasonings as you’d like.
  2. Stuff the casings according to manufacturers instructions on your sausage stuffer.
  3. Twist the casing into desired lengths or weight (Or don’t, if you’d rather cut the sections when you’re done. Flexibility is the name of the game.)
  4. Prick with a pin all over the sausage to prevent them from bursting.
  5. Set the sausage in the refrigerator for about a day to let the flavors all marry.
  6. To smoke the kielbasa, place in your smoker setup with your wood of choice. We started with oak and finished up with a bit of cherry.
  7. Smoke for 2-3 hours depending on how smoky you like them. We did ours for 3 hours this year and it was borderline too smoky. The goal is to get your internal temperature to 155 degrees. Our DIY smoker is apparently running too cold so after the 3 hours, we brought them in and finished baking them in the oven until they were brought up to temperature.
  8. And that’s it! Prepare them as you wish in your favorite recipe or freeze them for later!
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Homemade Smoked Kielbasa- Who knew making your own smoked kielbasa could be so easy!? | www.reformationacres.com


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Comments

  1. Rebecca Newman says

    28 February, 2014 at

    I read quite a few homesteading blogs but I gotta tell you Quinn…you are one of the only ones (THE only one?) that does it right. When you are butchering your own meat and making your own sausage…now THAT is serious homesteading.

    (And by RIGHT-I don’t mean perfectly. Everyone makes mistakes and all-but you and your hubby aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty and don’t shirk at the REAL work- the hard things. I really admire that.)

    Good for you!

    I am a huge kielbasa lover- especially roasted with root vegetables or with saurkraut and potatoes. I’ll be looking forward to trying this out when we have pigs again. (This year, PLEASE Lord!)

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    • Joseph kosalko says

      12 December, 2017 at

      Is the pork ground fine or coarse ????????

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      • Quinn says

        16 December, 2017 at

        You could do either, but ours is coarsely ground, just like making ground pork.

        Reply
  2. Tiffany says

    28 February, 2014 at

    Great post Quinn. I have approx. 30 lbs of ground pork in the fridge still to process. Some will turn into breakfast sausage, Italian sausage, but we might have to try this too. If not with this hog, the next one.

    Reply
  3. Emily Swezey says

    28 February, 2014 at

    Ohh!!! This sounds so good! My family hasn’t made sausage or done a pig for a couple years now and I miss the boudin so much. Next time we do one we will have to try your Kielbasa.

    Reply
  4. Quinn At ReformationAcres says

    4 March, 2014 at

    test

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  5. MommaMary says

    13 July, 2014 at

    I only have access to fresh ground pork at the Amish meat locker, but am definitely going to make the Kielbasa. Thanks for perfecting the recipe.

    Reply
  6. Thomas Dixon says

    10 October, 2015 at

    Where is the cure in this recipe.. If its smoked you have to put curing salt in it…. Period

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  7. Quinn At ReformationAcres says

    11 October, 2015 at

    Why? At 155 degrees it's fully cooked and if we freeze the meat to preserve it, a cure isn't necessary. The smoking adds flavor.

    Reply
  8. Kathy says

    22 April, 2018 at

    Three hours at 155° is not safe without a cure. Bacteria can grow quite rapidly with ground meat!!!

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  9. Kathy says

    22 April, 2018 at

    Actually you are smoking at an internal temperature below 155°, for three hours. Definitely a breeding ground for bacteria without cure. Even when you bring meat it should be icy cold to reduce bacteria growth.

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    • Quinn says

      23 April, 2018 at

      The concern with smoked sausages is botulism. “This bacterium (botulism) requires a moist, oxygen-free environment, low acidity (pH greater than 4.6) and temperatures in the danger zone (38-140°F) to grow and produce toxin.” https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/nchfp/lit_rev/cure_smoke_fs.html

      Reply

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