Saucisson aux Truffes et aux Pistaches

Sausage with Truffles and Pistachio Nuts

Preparation info
  • Makes a

    1 kg

    sausage
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Although sausages like this one are nowadays found in all parts of France, the Lyonnais claim to have invented the recipe.

Ingredients

large sausage casing(30-40 cm/

Method

Soak the casing in cold running water; then attach it to the tap and run water through to rinse it. Chop the truffles, reserving their liquid.

Work the lean and fat pork through the fine plate of a mincer/grinder. Put in a bowl with the salt, pepper, nutmeg and cognac and beat well to mix in the seasonings. Beat in the pistachios and then the truffles, with their liquid. Sauté a small p