Cevapi Sausages
A weekend Croatian dinner made with pork. Ready in about 2 hours 47 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.
- 2 hr 22 minPrep (about)
- 25 minCook (about)
- 2 hr 47 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- More effortDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 4 oz ground pork Shopping tip: Ground pork (UK: pork mince).
Fresh & other
- 9 oz ground beef Shopping tip: Ground beef (UK: minced beef). 80/20 or 85/15.
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp breadcrumbs
- 1 ½ tbsp water
Spices & seasonings (5): parsley, paprika, vegetable bouillon cube, salt, pepper
- 1 ½ tbsp parsley Shopping tip: Fresh flat-leaf (Italian) parsley. Curly works too.
- 1 ½ tsp paprika
- 1 vegetable bouillon cube Shopping tip: Bouillon cubes (UK: stock cubes).
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Place the ground meat in a bowl.
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Chop your onion very finely plus grate the garlic cloves.
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Add to the bowl.
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Add the pepper, salt, Vegeta, water, dried breadcrumbs, baking soda, all sorts of paprika and chopped parsley.
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Mix fully using your hand mixer fitted with the dough hooks.
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Cover your bowl with cling film/ plastic foil.
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Leave.
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Do it to rest.
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Keep going for 1 or 2 hours in your refrigerator.
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Take portions of the meat mix, around 50-2 oz 1.-1.9 oz/ ¼ cup portions, plus form the cevapi.
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The rolls should be around as thick as your thumb and around 7-4 inches 3-4 inches long.
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I had 18 sausages.
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The recipe can be easily doubled.
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Grill your cevapcici on your hot grill pan or on your barbecue for about 12-14 minutes, until brown and cooked through.
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Turn them several times in between.
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Serve hot as suggested above.
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Your cevapcici can be reheated in oven at 180 degrees / 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 minutes until hot all the way through.
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Check one, if it's not hot enough, give the sausages some more minutes.
On the side: Green salad
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Rinse the salad greens. Slice the cucumber.
- Put it all in a bowl and toss with the dressing just before eating.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.