Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage Recipe (2024)

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Joshua Bousel

Joshua Bousel is a Serious Eats old-timer, having started sharing his passion for grilling and barbecue recipes on the site back in 2008. He continues to develop grilling and barbecue recipes on his own site, The Meatwave, out of his home base of Durham, North Carolina.

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Updated April 12, 2019

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Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage Recipe (2)

I feel a sense of shame having let the entire summer go without churning out a few different sausages. When I first made the switch from the slow and cumbersome KitchenAid stuffer to a true five-pound vertical stuffer last year, the ease at which I could stuff sausage into casings had me churning out great links like chorizo and spicy mango. It's time to bust out the grinder again get back into the game.

I've had the most success with chicken sausages, like this one for roasted garlic and feta chicken sausage. It's a nod to my Greek dominated neighborhood of Astoria, New York. I tried to keep it simple, letting the garlic and feta do most of the work flavoring the sausage, but also added in appropriate additional seasonings of shallots, oregano, vinegar, and lemon juice.

I was quite pleased with the results, having a sausage that didn't overwhelm with too much flavor—something pre-packaged grocery store sausages do too often—letting the chicken gently meld with the garlic and getting a nice bite of sharp and salty feta here and there. It reminded me why homemade sausages are so great, and that I really need to ramp up production and back on the sausage wagon.

Recipe Details

Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage Recipe

Active90 mins

Total2 hrs

Serves20 sausages

Makes4 pounds

Ingredients

3 small heads garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 pounds skin on, boneless chicken thighs, cubed
10 ounces feta cheese, crumbled, divided
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1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh oregano
2 tablespoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar, chilled
2 tablespoons juice from 1 to 2 lemons, chilled
Natural hog casings, soaked in lukewarm water for at least 30 minutes and rinsed

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut top quarters off of heads of garlic. Place garlic cloves, cut side down, in center of a sheet of aluminum foil and drizzle with olive oil. Seal foil and place directly on oven rack. Cook until cloves are browned and very soft, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven, let cool for 10 minutes, then squeeze cloves out of the skin into a small bowl.
Combine garlic, chicken, 1/2 of the feta cheese, shallots, oregano, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Chill until ready to grind.
Grind the mixture through a meat grinder, fitted with small die, into a bowl set in ice.
Using paddle attachment of a standing mixer, mix on low speed for 1 minute. Add remaining feta, vinegar, lemon juice, increase speed to medium, and mix until liquid is incorporated, about 1 minute more.
Form a small sausage patty; place rest of sausage mixture in refrigerator. Cook patty in a small frying pan over medium-high heat until cooked through. Taste and adjust seasonings of sausage if necessary.
Stuff sausage into hog casings and twist into 6-inch links. Refrigerate until ready to cook.
Light one chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with gray ash, pour out and spread the coals evenly over entire surface of coal grate. Alternatively, set all the burners of a gas grill to high heat.Set cooking grate in place, cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Clean and oil the grilling grate. Grill over medium-high direct heat until sausage registers 160°F when an instant read thermometer is inserted in middle of link. Remove from grill, let rest for 5 minutes, and serve.

Special Equipment

Meat grinder, sausage stuffer

Homemade Sausages
Grilled Chicken
Grilled Sausages
Feta Cheese
Chicken

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
212	Calories
12g	Fat
3g	Carbs
25g	Protein

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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 20
Amount per serving
Calories	212
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12g	15%
Saturated Fat 5g	24%
Cholesterol 126mg	42%
Sodium 700mg	30%
Total Carbohydrate 3g	1%
Dietary Fiber 0g	1%
Total Sugars 1g
Protein 25g
Vitamin C 3mg	13%
Calcium 101mg	8%
Iron 1mg	7%
Potassium 295mg	6%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage Recipe (2024)

Roasted Garlic and Feta Chicken Sausage Recipe

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