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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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What are snags? They are a sausage found in Australia, New Zealand & throughout the Pacific Basin that is made of beef, pork or mutton and a filler in a synthetic casing. Firstly, you can be sure that the meat used is not prime cut; this is poor folk’s food. Read more . Okay, what’s in the filler? Not to offend our Aussie, Brit or Kiwi, etc. cousins but that is a bloody good question and a more closely held secret than “How To Make an Atom Bomb. The closest I got was that it’s a cereal based product and came about during WWII. So why bother? Well we have both Aussie & Kiwi friends that stop by for the odd Barbi (BBQ) and these folks are addicted to Snags. We can have nice steaks, chicken, fresh fish and Italian sausage on the grill and some joker will ask “where’re the snags?” and be dead serious & if I don’t have any they’ll bring some. If I’m going to cook the things I lat least want to make them marginally palatable. I’m not sure there is really any help for the humble snag but here’s a try. Ingredients:
• 1 doz aussie snags. if you can’t find these try to get the blandest, sorriest looking sausage you can find. |
• 1/2 cup dark soy sauce |
• 1/2 cup sugar (i prefer raw but white will do) |
• 1 - 2 large clove of garlic |
• several sprigs of mint |
• 1 tbs worcestershire sauce |
• 1 cup boiling water |
Directions:
1. 1. Poke holes in each snag using a sharp knife (try to get 12 holes in each snag.
2. 2. Mix the next five ingredients in a large bowl & stir until the sugar is dissolved.
3. 3. Add the hot water and stir until mixed.
4. 4. Add the snags and gently stir around a few times.
5. 5. Cover and let stand at least one hour, gently stirring occasionally.
6. 6. Remove the snags from the bowl, toss on the grill and cook completely. Snags do not cook as quickly as all meat sausage. I think it’s the filler.
7. 7. When completely done remove from the grill, douse with hot sauce or salsa or mustard or ordinary catchup or all of the above and try to enjoy.
8. Aussis and Kiwis are supposed to love these things but they have invented about fifteen kinds of sauce to put on them; and they use those sauces too. “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts”. Cardinal Daniel Patrick Moynihan
9. Please feel free to hide this recipe away with other emergency instructions and bring it out only in the event some Aussie shows up with a bunch of snags for you to cook.
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