How much to cook sausages?

Before cooking, remove the plastic wrap from the sausages. Put the sausages in a pot of boiling water and cook 2-5 minutes. There is no need to salt the sausages during cooking. Put the boiled sausages out of the pan immediately.

How to cook sausages

Microwave is the fastest way to make sausages

Peel the sausages from the artificial casing by cutting it at one end, do not remove the natural casing, but pierce it in a couple of places.
Put the sausages on a plate, you do not need to add water, since there is enough of it in the sausages.
Place a plate of sausages in the microwave, cover with a lid, turn on the heating mode 600 watts for 1-2 minutes, depending on whether the sausages are large.

Important! Adjust no more than 70-80% of the microwave power, full power can melt the sausages.

Cook sausages in a saucepan

Remove the plastic wrap from the sausages by cutting at one end and spiraling around the sausages. Do not remove natural casing.
Pour 400 milliliters of cold water into a shallow saucepan, place it on the burner over high heat, and let it boil.
Put sausages in boiling water, change the heat to low, close the pan with a lid.
Cook sausages for 2 minutes, serve with sauce and garnish.

Other cooking methods

How to cook sausages in a slow cooker
The method is the same as in the pan
1. Peel the sausages from the plastic casing, do not remove the natural one.
2. Pour 300 milliliters of boiling water into the multicooker bowl, or boil directly in the multicooker at maximum mode.
3. Put sausages in a bowl of water, turn on the "Cooking" mode.
4. Cook the sausages for 2 minutes.

How to cook sausages in a double boiler
1. Peel the sausages from the plastic shell, do not remove the natural one.
2. Pour 1 liter of cold water into a double boiler, place over high heat, and let it boil.
3. Put sausages on the wire rack of the first tier of a double boiler, keep for a couple of 3-5 minutes.

Simple recipes

Boiled sausages with pasta

For 2 servings: boil a lot of water (2 liters), add salt, add 100 grams of pasta, after 5 minutes add sausages cut into circles or just whole, cook together for 3 minutes after boiling. Drain through a colander, drizzle with butter and sauce, and serve.

How to cook hairy sausages

Pierce the sausages with long thin pasta so that you get a "hedgehog". Dip the sausage and pasta "hedgehogs" into the pot one at a time - so that the pasta has time to get wet. Cook each of the hairy sausages for 10 minutes. The technology is simple: the first part of the hairy sausages is cooked, and when the pasta is completely immersed in the water, you can add a couple more hairy sausages.

About baby sausages

Cook sausages "Krokha" and other "mini sausages" for 2 minutes.

In a shell or without

You can cook sausages both in a casing and without it - the main thing is not to eat an unnatural casing in the end. To save time, the fake casing can be removed while the hot water is boiling for boiling the sausages. But if the shell is natural, it does not need to be peeled off at all.

Sausage math

- The cost sausages - 350-450 rubles / kilogram (on average in Moscow for June 2020).

- Calorie content boiled sausages - 250-300 kcal / 100 grams.

How to choose good sausages

The price per kilogram of natural meat sausages cannot be less than per kilogram of meat. To reduce the cost of sausages, fiber and dietary fiber are often added, this is usually indicated in the composition. The GOST mark on the packaging indicates the standard composition, the TU mark indicates unusual ingredients: spices, cheeses, etc.
The composition of high-quality sausages does not include flavorings, thickeners, dyes, modified starch. If the sausages are dark in color, they contain too many preservatives and may have been processed more than once. Sodium nitrite is added to almost all sausages to give them a pink color. If the sausages are bright pink, most likely they have gone too far with dyes.
The shelf life of sausages by weight is 3-5 days, in a vacuum package - 15-20 days. After cooking, store sausages in the refrigerator for no more than 12 hours.

What to serve sausages with

- The most popular side dishes for boiled sausages are pasta and potatoes. For a snack, lettuce leaves, cheese, tomatoes are suitable.
- The most popular sauces for boiled sausages are ketchup, mayonnaise, cheese sauce, sour cream, adjika, soy sauce, mustard.

Find out, how to cook sausages yourself at home!