Boiled Moldavian Sausages

Description
In Romanian: Caltabosi moldovenesti (fierti)

Ingredients

 * 2 lbs / 1 kg fatty meat
 * 2 tablespoons lard
 * 2 onions
 * 1 tablespoon rice
 * 2 oz / 50 g raisins (optional)
 * salt
 * pepper
 * coriander
 * ½ cup broth
 * 1 teaspoon paprika
 * 2 – 3 tablespoons tomato sauce
 * 1 bay leaf
 * 2 – 3 juniper berries
 * ½ teaspoon sugar

Directions

 * 1) Grind the meat, add the lightly fried (in lard) onion, salt, pepper, a little ground coriander, rice, raisins and broth.
 * 2) Mix everything well and fill the large intestine. Do not overstuff.
 * 3) Make short sausages (one portion).
 * 4) Do not tie the ends but cover with the end of the intestine by pushing it in.
 * 5) Place the sausages in the pot with the broth, add sugar, bay leaf, juniper berries, paprika and tomato sauce.
 * 6) Set to boil at slow heat.
 * 7) Remove the foam.
 * 8) Boil for 40 – 50 minutes.
 * 9) Serve hot, in soup bowls, one sausage in each bowl, with the liquid in which they boiled.