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Hi everyone!

Been really excited to be able to get to actually have a go at making homemade sausages!

These have been a glorious protein delight of all sorts...

The end of a bag of TVP, a big handful of tofu sheets that I'd broken, yellow split peas and cannellini beans pureed, a load of mushrooms, and then gluten flour to stick it all together.

TVP tofu and mushrooms were soaked in what is mainly a soy sauce mixture that's designed to do umami.

And then I bought some commercial flavouring that was going cheap where I got the casings from, so bit of added rusk and some spices!

I had an amazingly fun time making these and I don't know everyone's going on about about it being difficult and messy - it was really easy!

Cooking went okay ish - they did split so it's definitely too wet but the flavouring was excellent and they ended up being a bit like nduja,all delicious and spreadable.

I accidentally bought 10 sticks of casings (apparently it was 2x5 not 2) so I'm really looking forward to playing around with the recipe

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[–] Saljid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds awesome! I'll take that as inspiration...

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow! What a project!

Have you tried these casings before? Are they challenging to handle? I think it was @bulbasaur@lemmy.world who shared using rice paper, which I've used with success, but I wonder if it's worth the effort. Looking forward to hearing more!

[–] bustrouffi@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, never! I spent a while googling online trying to work out what's best as a vegan casing and then got annoyed reading about ludicrously complicated things like dipping tubes into rice flour gloop etc and just bought some from a butchers supplier place