I've been on a Swedish food kick of late (out of sheer curiosity after reading 2 of the Millenium trilogy). I bought a bottle of Swedish style mustard (Lars' Own) and on the back it talks about it begin great on potato sausage. Being German/Irish sausage is a very important thing to me. It's a way of life down here in SE Louisiana too. So I Googled "Swedish Potato Sausage" and ran across way too many variations on a theme. Some very basic elements that stuck out - pork, beef, potato, onion, salt, pepper, and allspice. I live in a place where I can buy sausage casings in the grocery. I have a KitchenAid with grinder attachment. I could pick up a set of stuffing tubes easy and go to work. I just don't...mostly out of laziness. For a week now I've been thinking about how to make good old Potatis Korv in a ready-for-dinner manner. Enter American meatloaf...which on a variety of levels is like a giant slab of fresh sausage - meat, salt, seasonings, binder...you get the idea. Thus Potatis Korv-loaf. The seasonings need a bit of tweaking but what follows is the recipe I cooked up tonight:
1/2 lb ground chuck
1/2 lb ground turkey thighs
1/2 medium onion, chopped very fine (1/8" dice)
1 potato, chopped fine (1/8" dice)
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp dried marjoram
dash of garlic powder
1 tsp spice blend (equal parts by weight black pepper, white pepper, and allspice)
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Spread in to small roasting pan or loaf tin and bake at 350F for 45 minutes to an hour. Serve in medium to thin slices with mustard.
I think next time I'd add a full tablespoon of salt and maybe a teaspoon and a half of the spice blend. Great meal tonight though with steamed broccoli and cauliflower.
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