Easy Dwelling Household Made Pepperoni

Have you lot e'er read the element listing on a packet of commercial pepperoni or looked closely at a field of it together with wondered what all those "bits" were? Exactly!! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pretty gross thought isn't it?? 

If you lot desire to know precisely what is inward YOUR pepperoni, create this super slowly recipe. It's merely high character pork together with seasonings baked inward the oven at a super depression temperature for half-dozen hours ....and it is delicious, (even picky-picky married adult man loves it!!)

First of all, decease on inward hear that when it's all cooked, it's NOT going to live brilliant red/orange similar commercial pepperoni, together with it's NOT going to live shaped perfectly round, but that for certain didn't bother us. 

2 pound of solid soil pork (not sausage)
(OR you lot tin operate one-half lean beef together with one-half solid soil pork)
2 teaspoons liquid smoke
2 teaspoons dark pepper
2 teaspoons mustard seed
2 teaspoons fennel seed
1 teaspoon paprika
1 to ii teaspoons scarlet pepper flakes (see notes)
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 slightly heaping teaspoons tabular array salt (see notes)
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 loving cup H2O ice water

Grind the dry out spices together (I used my mortar together with pestle) until they are unopen to solid soil (it doesn't bring to live super fine).

Mix the meat, flavorings, H2O ice H2O together with liquid fume together merely until combined. (I operate my stand upwards mixer). Cover it well, together with chill it for 48 hours.

After 48 hours, mix i time again gently together with curl the mixture into ii logs together with house them on a foil lined baking canvass (make sure the baking canvass has a lip).

Bake inward a pre-heated 200° oven for half-dozen hours. If you lot seriously desire circular pepperoni, plow the logs every ii hours, but I never practise that.  Your theater is going to olfactory holding wonderful!! 

After half-dozen hours, they volition await similar this:

The "pepperoni" logs volition live quite theater to the affect when they come upwards out of the oven. If at that spot is a lot of fatty on your baked pepperoni "logs", merely wipe it off earlier you lot chill them, but I seldom bring that problem.

CHILL PEPPERONI BEFORE 
 YOU   SLICE !!

Let the baked logs cool a little, together with hence roll them inward plastic roll together with chill them until they are rattling mutual depression temperature before you lot field them.  Use a abrupt knife together with field the sausages rattling thin.

This process is VERY slowly to brand together with has a wonderful flavor. 

NOTES: I purchase pork butt roast when it's on super sale together with merely grind it amongst my stand upwards mixer, but you lot tin besides merely purchase commercially solid soil pork (UNSEASONED....not sausage!!)


NOTES: Picky-picky married adult man is rattling shy when it comes to "heat", hence I brand this recipe amongst 1 + 1/4 teaspoons of scarlet pepper flakes together with it's merely right.  If you lot similar a spicier pepperoni, merely add together to a greater extent than flakes.

NOTES: A depository fiscal establishment complaint virtually the color of this pepperoni. To larn a brilliant red/orange color inward pepperoni, people operate Morton's Tender Quick which has salt, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite together with propylene glycol inward it. Personally, it is non of import to us to bring that brilliant scarlet color, hence I merely operate tabular array table salt instead of the Tender Quick together with it industrial plant merely fine.  I freeze my baked pepperoni.