Basic Sausage Ingredients

Appears in
Professional Cooking: 10th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

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The basic ingredients of sausage meat are the following:
  • Lean pork
  • Pork fat, preferably hard fatback, ground with the meat
  • Salt
  • Spices, herbs, and other seasonings and flavorings
In the case of cured sausage, curing mixes containing nitrites or nitrates are added to the above list.