Probably, there is no such person who would not try sausages. We always resort to this dish when, especially, there is no time, but we want to eat something satisfying.
We offer you several step-by-step instructions on how to cook sausages at home on your own.

You will need:

Cooking sausages in water

We take sausages and separate the right amount. As a rule, they are interconnected.

Remove the tape carefully. This must be done, as the film is artificial. Cut it near one edge, and stretch it in a spiral to the other.

Fill the pot halfway with clean, cold water. Let's boil. We turn off the fire. I put sausages in a bowl. It is advisable to cover with a lid.

Cook the product from 2 to 10 minutes. Small sausages should boil no more than 5 minutes.

Frozen sausages

1. If the sausages were previously frozen, place them in cold water.
2. Don't remove the tape. Get rid of it after cooking.
3. Pierce the film with a fork so that they cook evenly and the film does not burst.
4. When the water starts to boil, cook the sausages for 5-7 minutes.

The downside is that sausages tend to crawl out along the edges. In the first case, boiled sausages look more appetizing.

How to boil sausages in the microwave

1. Remove the film.
2. Put the product in a special plate.
3. Fill with water to cover the sausages.
4. Cover with a lid.
5. Place the plate in the microwave. Turn on the warm-up mode. Boil 3-5 minutes.

Cook frozen sausages the same way. There is only one “but”. Do not remove the film, but pierce it in some places.

• Sausages can not only be boiled, but also fried, grilled.

• It is not necessary to cook them. But nutritionists recommend doing it. If suddenly they were stored in not very suitable conditions, or the packaging was broken, then treatment with boiled water will reduce the risk of poisoning. Also, cooking improves taste.
• You can cook sausages sliced.
• A decoction of sausages can be used for soup, or other dishes.
• You can cook sausages in the same water several times.
• It is not necessary to keep the broth for a long time, as it deteriorates.
• Heartlets are cooked in the same way as sausages.

Most housewives have sausages in the refrigerator or freezer in case they don’t have the strength or time to cook, and they need to feed the family quickly and tasty. Despite the fact that everyone knows perfectly well how to cook sausages, practice shows that many do it wrong.

Regardless of which shell the components are in, whether they are processed in a slow cooker, microwave, or boiled in a conventional saucepan, there are a number of technical points, the observance of which guarantees the desired result.

Particular attention is paid to the process in which frozen products are involved, otherwise they will turn into an inedible concoction that tastes like paper. In fact, everything is quite simple and takes only a few minutes, you just need to choose the appropriate exposure option.

Rules for preparation and processing that everyone neglects?

To make it tasty and healthy (or at least not very harmful), it is necessary not only to know how much to cook sausages, but also how to properly prepare them for processing. There are several important points, ignoring which can lead not only to spoilage of the product, but also to health problems.

1. It is strictly forbidden to eat these components in raw form. Many people do not understand why boil sausages, being sure that this product, especially in an artificial film, is no different from a doctor's sausage. In fact, products need heat treatment in a microwave, boiled water or a slow cooker, at least for a few minutes.
2. In the peel, only sausages in a natural casing are allowed to boil. But it also needs to be pierced in several places so that the products do not burst. You can use a needle for this, but not a knife or fork.
3. If the products are in an artificial film (for example, milk sausages), it is recommended to remove it even before processing. Although this element is usually made from substances acceptable for the food industry, there is no guarantee that some chemical components will not transfer to the product itself.

These rules do not apply to frozen sausages. They are also first pierced with a needle if possible. The product is immediately placed in cold water, and the container is placed on the stove. After boiling water, wait at least 10 minutes. Then put the product in cold water for a few seconds and only then remove the shell.

How to cook sausages in a saucepan and microwave oven?

Most often, housewives use traditional options for preparing semi-finished meat products. If you cook them in boiling water or microwave, the dish will be ready quickly and without any hassle.

• In a saucepan. In a suitable container, bring the water to a boil and lower the prepared semi-finished meat products into it. They must be completely covered with liquid. We wait until the water boils again, after which we reduce the heat to medium. We cook products for no more than 5-10 minutes, otherwise their taste properties will be seriously affected. If the sausages were in a natural casing, we remove it. The products can then be served immediately.

Tip: Before you cook sausages, you need to choose a container that is suitable in length for them. You should not cook products in a microwave or a slow cooker if it is not possible to arrange them along the entire length (Viennese, Bavarian sausages). By bending, foods will lose their texture, become less soft and juicy.

• In the microwave. Sausages can be cooked in a microwave oven in the same way as in a saucepan. In this case, the exposure time is no more than 3 minutes. But there is an option for cooking products without water. It will turn out very tasty, and less hassle. Sausages should not be in a film or natural casing, we clean them thoroughly. After that, we cut at both ends and put it on a plate. At maximum power, we process the product for only one minute. If you add a little water to the plate, the result will be more juicy.

How to use the multicooker and steamer correctly?

If you don’t want to trust such a responsible process to a stove or microwave, you can turn to other household appliances, for example, a slow cooker and a double boiler. Depending on the selected unit, we act according to one of the schemes:

• Cooking in a multicooker. Remove the casing from the sausages, pour water into the bowl of the appliance and bring to a boil. We lower the blanks into boiling water and boil no longer than 5 minutes. It is worth considering that after processing in a slow cooker, products may acquire a specific aroma that some people do not like. And, contrary to popular belief, frozen foods must go through all stages of processing even with this approach.

Tip: If ready-made sausages need to be held a little before serving, they can be put in a saucepan, covered with a lid and put in a water bath. But no more than 20-30 minutes.

• Cooking in a steamer. While the processing of sausages in a saucepan, slow cooker or microwave leads to the removal of a number of useful components from the products, this does not happen in the case of a double boiler. It is necessary to remove the shell from the products and place it in a tank, the walls of which are greased with butter. Set the timer to 10 minutes.

Even if you know how to cook sausages properly, you should not get carried away with this product. It is quite suitable as an urgent replacement for the main course, but it is still better to give preference to natural meat, rather than semi-finished products in your diet.

Sausages, thin boiled sausages made from meat and cream, have been known since time immemorial.

They made them from both pork and goat meat, smoked, dried, added cheese crumbs and even paprika.

And they also made it from soy, no, not from the notorious soy meat, but from boiled beans with smoked pork fat.

Sausages are a favorite treat for children, and a convenient product for the hostess that can be prepared in a matter of minutes, or, conversely, turned into a colorful dish.

How and how much to cook sausages - general principles of cooking

Sausages are boiled in a large amount of water without the addition of salt and spices, since this semi-finished product is salty in itself, with a sufficient content of spices.

The artificial casing is removed from the sausages before boiling, and the natural casing is left and removed after cooking.

How to cook sausages in a saucepan, on the stove. Put the sausages prepared for boiling into a saucepan with water and put on fire to boil. When the water begins to boil rapidly, reduce the heat and continue to cook. There should be enough water, it should cover the sausages by at least five centimeters. If you boiled sausages covered with a natural casing, dip them for a minute in cold water, then the casing will be easier to remove. Cooking sausages in this way should take no more than five minutes.

How to cook sausages in the microwave. In a special glass container, lay the sausages peeled from the outer shell in one row (you need to remove both the artificial and natural shells). Fill with water so that it covers them completely and put in the microwave. It takes five minutes to cook sausages in this way; with longer cooking, they may burst.

How to cook sausages in a slow cooker, steam. Place the sausages without casings on the special steaming basket. Pour the amount of water indicated in the instructions into the multicooker bowl, put sausages on top and close the lid tightly. Steam sausages in a slow cooker in the “Steam cooking” mode for twenty minutes.

How to cook sausages in a slow cooker. Put sausages in the capacity of the multicooker, you can not remove the natural casing with this method of cooking, pour in enough water, as for cooking in a saucepan and cover the multicooker with a lid, set the mode on the control panel: “Steam cooking”. The timer for boiling sausages in this mode is set for fifteen minutes.

How and how much to cook frozen sausages. Frozen semi-finished products do not need to be thawed before boiling. They, like chilled ones, are placed in cold water, but the shell is not removed, whatever it may be. The only difference in cooking is the cooking time. So how long to cook sausages if they are frozen? Such semi-finished products are cooked longer than chilled ones, and the degree of readiness is determined by a puncture with any sharp object. If the object easily enters the sausage and it is elastic, but soft, then everything is ready.

From boiled sausages, you can cook a lot of different dishes that you can eat on their own and with the appropriate side dish.

How to cook sausages with spaghetti - "Funny Jellyfish"

Ingredients:

Chicken sausages, non-frozen - 1 kg;

Half a kilo of spaghetti;

A small leaf of lavrushka;

70 grams of 72% butter.

Cooking method:

1. Remove the casing from the sausages, cut them in half across and on each half from the side of the cut, make two longitudinal cuts a third of the length.

2. Spaghetti break into pieces, ten centimeters long.

3. Pierce each cut half of the sausages along, but not through, with four such pieces.

4. Dip the parsley into boiling water, salt, you can add spices to your taste, and lower the sausages “stuffed” with vermicelli. After boiling, reduce the heat a little and cook until the spaghetti is cooked.

5. Drain the water, put the "jellyfish" on a plate with the garnish and pour over them with melted butter. Draw eyes, nose and mouth with ketchup.

How to cook sausages in an original way for children for a side dish - "Octopussy"

Ingredients:

Half a kilo of creamy chilled sausages;

Low-fat mayonnaise;

Unsharp ketchup.

Cooking method:

1. For sausages, remove the shell and cut each half lengthwise into several pieces.

2. Dip the prepared semi-finished products into boiling water and boil for five minutes after boiling the water again. In ready-made sausages, the cut part will unfold, and will resemble the tentacles of an octopus.

3. "Put" slightly cooled octopus "tentacles" on a plate to garnish, and draw funny faces with mayonnaise and ketchup.

Boiled sausages in apple-wine sauce

Ingredients:

300 grams of fresh pork sausages;

300 ml of red, dry wine;

A small head of sweet onion;

Two small sweet apples;

80 grams of butter, natural;

250 ml of vegetable broth or chicken broth;

50 grams of sugar;

A third teaspoon of cinnamon powder.

Cooking method:

1. Bring wine to a boil in a deep frying pan, put sausages in it and cook over low heat for ten minutes.

2. Finely grate the onion with a grater, remove the core with seeds and peel from apples, cut them into thin strips or medium-sized slices.

3. Dilute the wine in which the sausages were boiled with broth or broth, add sugar, ground cinnamon, butter, chopped apples and onions. Bring to a boil and simmer the sauce until the apples are completely softened and the sauce thickens.

4. Put the sausages boiled in wine on a dish and pour over the apple sauce. After cooking, sausages can be fried in butter to make them brown.

How to cook sausages in a creamy mushroom sauce

Ingredients:

900 grams of creamy sausages;

100 grams of fresh mushrooms, preferably champignons;

White onion - 1 medium-sized head;

270 ml dry wine, white;

40 grams of butter 72% fat;

One and a half tablespoons of wheat flour;

30 ml of sherry brand wine;

150 ml, 10-15% cream.

Cooking method:

1. Place the mushrooms cut into small slices or plates in a saucepan.

2. Remove the outer casing from the sausages, cut each into three parts and put in a saucepan with mushrooms.

3. Add the whole onion, pour in the wine and, covered with a lid, boil for ten minutes on minimum heat, without letting the wine boil. Strain the broth and reserve for later use.

4. Melt the butter in a deep thick-walled frying pan, add the flour, mix thoroughly until smooth and immediately pour in the broth with the sherry diluted in it. Cook, stirring constantly until thickened. Excessively thick sauce can be diluted with boiled milk.

5. Add ground black pepper to the sauce, add salt, taking a sample, put the mushrooms with sausages previously boiled in wine. Whisking constantly, carefully fold in the cream. Heat through for two minutes without letting the sauce boil.

Boiled sausages baked with cheese

Ingredients:

Boiled sausages, beef - 6 pcs.;

150 grams of hard cheese "Russian";

Mild ketchup;

Brewed homemade or purchased mustard.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the boiled chilled sausages not completely along, and put a small, thin piece of cheese into the cut.

2. Transfer the sausages stuffed with cheese to a frying pan sprinkled with fat and bake in the oven for ten minutes.

3. Cool slightly, arrange on a dish lined with lettuce leaves, and top with mustard and ketchup.

How and how much to cook sausages - tricks and tips

If there are a lot of eaters and everyone is not averse to eating sausages, you should not take a huge pan. It is enough that the sausages do not lie too tightly in boiling water, and the less it is, the tastier the result will be.

If you're making sausages with mashed potatoes, don't throw away the water in which the potatoes were boiled. Drain it, tightly “wrap” the pan with potatoes, and in the water in which it was boiled, boil the sausages for 3–4 minutes, then put them on top of the potatoes and soak for another couple of minutes.

A separate interesting way of cooking is found in old recipes of Eastern and Southern European cuisines. For it, it is necessary to boil, periodically changing, a certain amount of cabbage leaves. The broth is salted, and sausages are boiled in it. Then they are wrapped with cabbage leaves and dried on the grill. It turns out a kind of cabbage rolls, if of course they can be called that.