What Is Linguisa Sausage?
Linguisa or linguica is a traditional Portuguese sausage. Like many sausages, it can be served as a side dish or it can be cut up and used in other recipes. Does this Spark an idea?
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Basic Ingredients
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Portuguese linguica or linguisa is an uncooked, smoked sausage made of ground pork butts and seasoned with cinnamon, cumin, garlic, black pepper and salt.
How it is served
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Linguisa can be served as a side dish to a heavy main meal containing starchy foods such as rice and beans. It can also be cut up and used to season soups or stews. It has a lighter flavor than some of its spicier cousins, such as the chorizo.
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Where to buy it
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If it is not available at your local grocery store, Amazon.com lists one particular seller and gives links to four others. A complete recipe may be found online at Epicurean (see references), if you wish to make your own linguisa.
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References
- Photo Credit Sausage and beer image by Mladenov from Fotolia.com
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Comments
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Crumbled, cooked linguicia is the single best topping I have ever tasted atop a pizza. Some sections of the USA offer linguicia as a pizza topping at both independent and chain pizza joints. I currently dwell where the locals scrunch up their ignorance-revealing faces and proclaim, "Whatchyall' be jawin' 'bout? Some dern' terrist food?" Yes. No linguicia pizza topping hereabouts but if you were to request some road-kill 'possum one or more food joints could likely fix yah' right up.
