Do you put oil in the pan before cooking sausages?

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asked Jul 19, 2023 in Cooking by gatorlover22 (640 points)
Do you put oil in the pan before cooking sausages?

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answered Jul 19, 2023 by loveroflife (6,080 points)
When pan frying sausages you put the oil in the pan before cooking the sausage.

You only need about a tablespoon of cooking oil in the pan for sausages as the sausages are quite fatty and will release their own fat and oils during cooking.

You only need a small amount of cooking oil to start the sausages off for cooking.

Cooking sausages in a frying pan takes between 15 to 20 minutes.

You should heat the pan over medium heat and then add the sausages.

As the sausages warm a little fat from the sausages should start to come out.

You should then keep cooking the sausages for 15 to 20 minutes and move them around in the pan and turn them over regularly so the sausages cook evenly.

The reason you should boil sausages before frying them is to make sure that the sausages are fully and thoroughly cooked and also to ensure the sausages remain moist.

The reason you poke holes in sausages when frying them is to allow the steam in the sausages to escape which prevents the sausages from splitting.

It's better to fry sausages in oil instead of butter as frying the sausages in butter compliments the fat better than oil as well as lubricating the pan better.

When frying sausage with butter you should use unsalted butter so that the salt in the salted butter does not crystallize and collect in the pan.

Portuguese sausage is not raw since it's a cured sausage.

So since Portuguese sausage is a cured sausage and not raw you can eat the Portuguese sausage without further cooking it.

However you can heat up or cook Portuguese sausage further if you want too but it does not require cooking prior to eating it.

Unlike fresh sausages like Italian sausage or Mexican chorizo, Portuguese chourico and linguica are smoked sausages, meaning they are fully cooked and ready to eat.

Hailing from the northern region of Trás-os-Montes, this Portuguese sausage combines pork loin with wine, garlic, bay leaves, and sweet or hot paprika.

It's usually sliced into thin pieces and eaten uncooked with a piece of bread.

Hawaiian linguiça, also known as Portuguese sausage, is usually smoked using banana leaves.

Linguiça is also used in francesinha, a traditional Portuguese dish, from Porto.

The linguiça is incorporated in its sauce, giving it a distinct flavor.

Mexican sausage is chorizo, whereas Portuguese sausage is chourico, but they are both pronounced chor-EE-soh.

The Portuguese sausage is in a casing and is cooked in the same way that you would cook German or Polish sausage.

After it is boiled, grilled or broiled, it is sliced up into rounds and added to a dish.

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