Orange and Fennel Salami

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Orange and Fennel Salami

Post by redzed » Mon Sep 28, 2015 06:57

The combination of orange, fennel and garlic has become one of my favourites in dry curing pork loins (lonzino), so I decided to make a salami with the same flavour panel. The sausage dried for 7 weeks, with a weight loss of 38%. The orange and fennel come through beautifully and complement each other very well, and the aroma is simply divine! It should be bottled and sold as an air freshener! :lol: I also used fennel pollen for the first time in this recipe, so maybe that is why the taste is so good. The other spices did not detract from or interfere the fennel, orange or garlic. Colour not the best but I suspect the orange zest is responsible for giving it that brownish hue. Also a bit of dry rim, since the salami was left unattended for a little over three weeks, but two or three weeks vac-packed and in the fridge will fix that. Like with all the salami I make these days, I made a couple smaller salami using the Umai tubes. They were ready in 4 weeks. Compared to the chamber cured sausage, they were a little sharper in taste with a hint of tang. But even so they tasted quite good.

So if you want a salami that's more than salt and pepper and one that everyone will like, this is it! So start zesting your oranges!

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Orange and Fennel Salami

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Class I (lean with no connective tissue) pork from ham 780g
Back fat 220g

Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of meat
Salt 23g
Cure #2 2.5g
Fresh garlic 3g
Mixed peppercorns, coarsely ground 3g
Orange zest (dried) 3g
Fennel (toasted and ground) 2.5g
Fennel pollen 2.5g
Mace 2g
Mexican hot chile powder 3g
Dextrose 3g
S. erythorbate .5g
White wine 25ml
B-LC-007 starter culture - rounded 1/2tsp used for the 4.4kg meat block

Instructions
1. Cut lean meat into 3-4cm. cubes, and back fat into slightly smaller ones.
2. Add the salt, #2 and cure to the meat and fat and rest in fridge for 48 hours.
3. Semi-freeze meat and fat before grinding. Grind the fat and meat together with the 7mm plate
4. Add the rest of the ingredients to the ground meat and mix thoroughly.
5. Stuff into beef middles or protein lined casings. (I used the latter)
6. Ferment at 20-22C and 90+ RH until pH reads 5.3 or lower, but ideally not below 5.
7. Dry at 75-85% RH until weight drops by 35%
8. Surface starter optional but recommended.
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Post by Bob K » Mon Sep 28, 2015 16:24

Gees if you got some orange colored mold to grow on that you would really have a unique product!

Looks fantastic !!
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Post by BriCan » Mon Sep 28, 2015 20:42

Question ........

Why dried orange zest over fresh .......??
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Post by redzed » Mon Sep 28, 2015 23:10

BriCan wrote:Question ........

Why dried orange zest over fresh .......??
It's what I had on hand, and I would need to zest probably 20 oranges to get the amount that I put into this batch. Nothing wrong with dehydrated orange zest might even be better, just like porcini. :lol:
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Post by BriCan » Tue Sep 29, 2015 00:42

redzed wrote:
It's what I had on hand, and I would need to zest probably 20 oranges to get the amount that I put into this batch. Nothing wrong with dehydrated orange zest might even be better, just like porcini. :lol:
Interesting, I know to get hold of dried can be on the expensive side (you know of a cheep place? ;) ) which is why I use the fresh

Just over 10kg of duck and orange salame drying -- used the zest off two large orange plus 110 gm of Van Der Hum as per my last lot, orange was there but not overpowering until it it had dried to over 45% even then not too sharp

As I said; was curious. Thanks :)
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Post by redzed » Tue Sep 29, 2015 03:05

I now zest and dry all of the oranges we buy, so over time it accumulates. In the past when I needed lemon peel and did not have it, I used a few drops of lemon extract. I think orange extract will work just as well. All you need is a few drops and it's cheap and effective.
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Post by Bob K » Sat Jan 16, 2016 19:19

Wow
Even the mince turns Orange :lol:

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Post by Saltedtyme30 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 00:07

For 6 lbs of meat, what would the ratio be? I wanna do this recipe. It says per 1kg of meat. I have 6lbs 1/2 tsp per 1kg ?
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Post by Bob K » Mon Jan 18, 2016 00:20

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For 6 lbs of meat 1/2 tsp will work fine!
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Post by Saltedtyme30 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 01:04

So it would be 23 grams of salt x 3? I want to do this recipe with 6lbs of Duroc pork i just got !
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Post by jens49 » Wed Jan 20, 2016 09:38

Would pork loin work just as well as ham meat?
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Post by Bob K » Wed Jan 20, 2016 13:37

I don't see why not, just make sure you add the back fat. I used pork loin in the batch I just made .
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Redzed Said:
I think orange extract will work just as well. All you need is a few drops and it's cheap and effective.
I also used orange extract at the rate of 1ml per kilo.

Wont have any results for another 2 months. :cry:
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Re: Orange and Fennel Salami

Post by Saltedtyme30 » Thu Jun 28, 2018 03:20

redzed wrote:The combination of orange, fennel and garlic has become one of my favourites in dry curing pork loins (lonzino), so I decided to make a salami with the same flavour panel. The sausage dried for 7 weeks, with a weight loss of 38%. The orange and fennel come through beautifully and complement each other very well, and the aroma is simply divine! It should be bottled and sold as an air freshener! :lol: I also used fennel pollen for the first time in this recipe, so maybe that is why the taste is so good. The other spices did not detract from or interfere the fennel, orange or garlic. Colour not the best but I suspect the orange zest is responsible for giving it that brownish hue. Also a bit of dry rim, since the salami was left unattended for a little over three weeks, but two or three weeks vac-packed and in the fridge will fix that. Like with all the salami I make these days, I made a couple smaller salami using the Umai tubes. They were ready in 4 weeks. Compared to the chamber cured sausage, they were a little sharper in taste with a hint of tang. But even so they tasted quite good.

So if you want a salami that's more than salt and pepper and one that everyone will like, this is it! So start zesting your oranges!

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Orange and Fennel Salami

Meats
Class I (lean with no connective tissue) pork from ham 780g
Back fat 220g

Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of meat
Salt 23g
Cure #2 2.5g
Fresh garlic 3g
Mixed peppercorns, coarsely ground 3g
Orange zest (dried) 3g
Fennel (toasted and ground) 2.5g
Fennel pollen 2.5g
Mace 2g
Mexican hot chile powder 3g
Dextrose 3g
S. erythorbate .5g
White wine 25ml
B-LC-007 starter culture - rounded 1/2tsp used for the 4.4kg meat block

Instructions
1. Cut lean meat into 3-4cm. cubes, and back fat into slightly smaller ones.
2. Add the salt, #2 and cure to the meat and fat and rest in fridge for 48 hours.
3. Semi-freeze meat and fat before grinding. Grind the fat and meat together with the 7mm plate
4. Add the rest of the ingredients to the ground meat and mix thoroughly.
5. Stuff into beef middles or protein lined casings. (I used the latter)
6. Ferment at 20-22C and 90+ RH until pH reads 5.3 or lower, but ideally not below 5.
7. Dry at 75-85% RH until weight drops by 35%
8. Surface starter optional but recommended.
I`m going to do this. May I ask why you ask for the cure # 2 and salt to the cubes meat and let rest rather than doing in one day ? I don`t have erythorbate neither what is that? And what can substitute it ? Thanks buddy
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Re: Orange and Fennel Salami

Post by reddal » Thu Jun 28, 2018 09:29

Saltedtyme30 wrote:I`m going to do this. May I ask why you ask for the cure # 2 and salt to the cubes meat and let rest rather than doing in one day ?
I'm also interested in the answer to this. I started doing it this way a while ago - but more driven by logistics (do fresh sausage one day, dry cured another). I think that when I switched to pre-curing the pork it made the texture better, but I might be kidding myself.

I guess curing the pork for a day or two makes sure the cure properly binds with the pork and isn't just mixed up with all the ingredients.
Saltedtyme30 wrote:I don`t have erythorbate neither what is that? And what can substitute it ? Thanks buddy
Its an anti-oxidant which helps ensure the curing process works completely so there should be no nitrates/nitrites left in the sausage when the process is complete. Its not essential and there is some debate about its use. However the consensus seems to be adding it gives you some extra safety. You can use Sodium Ascorbate instead of Sodium erythorbate. You can also use Ascorbic acid - but be very careful if so - it can react with the cure chemicals in dangerous ways if not done correctly.

A while ago I had some dry cured sausages lab tested for nitrates/nitrites. I found that they had zero when the product was ready - with or without an anti-oxidant.

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Post by Bob K » Thu Jun 28, 2018 15:20

reddal wrote: Saltedtyme30 wrote:
I`m going to do this. May I ask why you ask for the cure # 2 and salt to the cubes meat and let rest rather than doing in one day ?
Its an old school method that may stem from using salt peter (nitrate) as a curing agent. Its to improve the flavor and color. In my opinion it also makes for a better texture as the meat is firmer and grinds more consistently.

Stephan or Redzed can definitely elaborate on the reasons :mrgreen:

Philip, you can read about additives here: https://www.meatsandsausages.com/sausag ... /additives
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