Every Filipino demands for a breakfast food which is very nutritious, delicious and can satisfy them along the way. As for typical family, having left over rice which will be fried is a very special effort to prepare breakfast, along with garlic fried rice is combined with longanisa or sausage and eggs (sunny side up style). This is one of the most famous breakfast menu that even catering service is providing this because they know how appealing the dish to many Filipinos.
Well, longanisa (longaniza) lucban style is slightly sour sausage and is similar to chorizo of Spain. It is our own variety of sausage that has become very well known among local residents. Usually, it is bought from the public market, grocery stores, and home-made. It is a fact that these products bought from market is already done when it comes to its tastes. But we could make it more appealing to us and to our kids, family and relatives by doing it on our own way.
One of the special longanisa is the Lucban style longanisa or usually known “Longganisang Lucban”. A recipe is here so that people would not need to travel so far to go to Lucban just to be able to have a taste of their longanisa. This recipe will need to be frozen within 3 days of making to maintain its freshness because there will be no curing or whatsoever.
Ingredients:
- pork belly or medium ground pork
- garlic powder
- paprika
- oregano, dried
- 1 tsp sugar (depending on the sweetness you want)
- Vinegar
- Sausage casing
- Pork back fat
Procedure:
- Grind the pork belly in a grinder or you could chop it using a cleavers.
- Add salt. And set aside.
- Fried or roast the paprika, oregano and garlic powder in a hot pan
- Mix it with the ground pork and set aside for 40 minutes or until 1 hour.
- Cube the pork back fat and mix with the ground pork mixture
- Put the sausage casing in a warm water
- After 30 minutes, pour some vinegar to the sausage casing
- Put the meat mixture into the sausage casing and make it like links.
- Chill in the refrigerator
- The next day, fry the longanisa and combine with fried rice, and egg and serve hot to the family.
