When I made my first recipe using sausage, I had no idea how to decase the sausage. Flash forward, I now use it in a ton of my recipes.
Unless I am making sausage peppers and onions, I don’t like to keep the sausage in full links. Instead, I like to use the turkey sausage in ground meat form. I have yet to find turkey sausage that already comes ground, so I make my own!
My go-to brand is Jennie-O Hot Italian Turkey sausage. I use this in a TON of my recipes because of the flavor and for the fact that it is waaaaay healthier than regular pork sausage. Good ‘ol Jennie also makes a sweet Italian Turkey sausage if you can’t take the heat! (get yo *ss out the kitchen! – Coolio).
Here is how you quickly decase a sausage and make it into a ground meat to add flavor and protein to any meal!
- 5 sausage links
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with the tip of a knife cut the sausage from one end to the other.
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using your thumb and forefinger peel back the casing.
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remove the casing leaving the sausage intact. repeat on remaining sausage.
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once casing is removed, start to pull the links into little chunks.
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Voila! you now have ground sausage to use in your recipes!
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