wild rice in brats

[Pooh]

can anyone tell me how much wild rice to add to a batch of brats (25# of total meat)

[reinhard1]

i would start off with about 6 cups of cooked wild rice. you dont want to over do it in my opinion. it's all about the texture, and balance of all the ingrediants together. then on you next batch you can add or subtract according to your taste. the last one's i make was last year and i believe i cooked a 12oz pack and it was about right. i added a small jar of jalopeno pepperes chopped also minus the juice. good luck.

[Alagnak]

Yeah. 4-8 cups in a 25# batch you can't go wrong. It is a great filler/texture/flavor/talking point and geographically appropriate.

[Xplorer]

Mmmmm, not much better than a wild rice brat!!!

One of our local butcher's makes chicken wild rice brats and they are to die for (Ok, I need to spare the heart a bit of cholesterol on occasion )

"and geographically appropriate." Does that mean culinarily PC??!!? : )

[hockeybc69]

For my summer sausage I use 2 cups cooked wild rice per 5 lbs of product.

So should work for brats too.

[thirdeye]

I've been making sausage for over 30 years and thought I had heard of everything, buy dang... wild rice in brats. That's a new one on me and it sounds fantastic.

I make a lamb sausage that has a coarse grind, and I think wild rice would be outstanding in those.

[icecastle]

3# would be about right one bag of rice boiled turns in to 3#.Been doing this for a few years family loves them.Try some high temp cheese also yum yum.Good luck

[reinhard1]

that stuff looks awesome. i have some receipe's for lamb sausage one is syrian with red wine and pine nuts involved and one is called cevapcice venison sausage with lamb and some pork thats heavy on the garlic and a few eggs involved. a 12 oz. bag of wild rice will cook enough for 25 pounds of a mixture of meat and seasonings. good luck.

[tacklejunkie]

Along these lines, has anybody tried those brats at Superior Meats in Wisconsin?

I pick up a batch in the summer and they're fantastic!!

[reinhard1]

tackle, your odds are always better at a meat market. expecialy if they are around for a long time. but like you see with third eye and others that love to make sausage at home there is no comparison. sausage makeing is an art. good luck.