Tambov

Tambov is a great highly nutritional sausage made of pork, beef, pork bellies and basic spices like pepper and nutmeg.

Meats Metric US
beef 400 g 0.88 lb.
pork 200 g 0.44 lb.
pork bellies (bacon) 400 g 0.88 lb.

Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of meat

salt 18 g 3 tsp.
Cure #1 2.5 g ½ tsp.
pepper 2.0 g 1 tsp.
sugar 2.0 g ½ tsp.
nutmeg 1.0 g ½ tsp.
cold water 100 ml ⅜ cup

Instructions

  1. Grind meats with 3/8” (10 mm) plate. Grind bacon through ⅛ “ (3 mm) plate.
  2. Mix all ingredients with meat adding water. Mix until all water is absorbed by the mixture.
  3. Stuff into hog casings 32-36 mm and form 12” (30 cm) long links.
  4. Hang at room temperature for 60 minutes.
  5. Apply hot smoke for 110-130 min.
  6. In the last stage of smoking the sausage is baked at 75-90º C (167-194º F) until internal meat temperature is 68-70º C (154-158º F).
  7. Shower with cold water for about 5 min, then lower sausage temperature to below 12º C (53º F).
  8. Store in refrigerator.