Lionel has been wanting to make boerewors, a traditional South African sausage, for quite some time. Traditionally they are made of pork and beef, but since we don’t eat beef we decided to use lamb. On Monday we bought a beautiful boneless leg of lamb roast – 2kg worth. On Thursday we painstakingly trimmed the skin and fat away and cut it into pieces small enough to fit through the food grinder attachment of our KitchenAid. An hour and a half later we had a bowlful of ground lamb, excellent quality. Then we looked at it. Speckled throughout was pieces of grease from the food grinder. It was ruined. Now, this happened last time with carrots I was grating for a carrot cake (5lbs worth!), and so this time we were prepared and THOROUGHLY cleaned the device. But to no avail. Four pounds of lamb ended up in the garbage. This was quite upsetting. Did I mention we did all this after running 9.8 km the previous day, and me working from 6pm the previous day until 6:30pm that day, and then coming home to make sausage?! It hit us hard, heh.

Boerewors!
 
 

So we went out and bought some ground lamb today and tried again. It was a success! Unfortunately the meat was ground very fine and was very lean (the recipe calls for bacon and we didn’t put it in). Next time the bacon goes in and we’ll request coarsely ground. In the meantime, the spicing was excellent!