CURLY-Q GRILLED SAUSAGES

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Giving a sausage a cool, coiled shape isn't just fun or frivolous; it's also fully functional. The extra surface area picks up additional delicious smoky, caramelized flavors from the grill. You could brush barbecue sauce on an un-helixed Italian sausage, but here you're literally flavoring the sausage inside and out. I served them on buns with homemade basil-garlic mayonnaise.

Provided by Chef John

Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Pork Sausage

Time 1h25m

Yield 2

Number Of Ingredients 5

Ingredients

2 (3.5 ounce) links Italian sausage
1 ½ cups water
1 pinch salt
2 metal skewers
1 tablespoon barbeque sauce, or to taste

Steps:

Place sausages into a skillet over medium heat and pour in water. Add a large pinch of salt to the water and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook for about 3 minutes per side.
Remove sausages from pan and let cool to room temperature. Refrigerate until cold, at least 1 hour. Insert a metal skewer the long way through each cooled sausage.
Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat and lightly oil the grate. Pour barbeque sauce into a small bowl.
Place a sausage on a work surface and start making a knife cut about 3/4 inch from the end, holding the knife blade at a slight angle and cutting down to the skewer. Slowly rotate the sausage and continue cutting in a spiral until sausage is cut to about 1 inch from the other end. Gently spread the sausage apart on the skewer to create about 1/2 inch of space between the curls.
Place sausages onto the preheated grill and cook until browned and meat is no longer pink inside, about 6 minutes; turn occasionally.
Brush sausages with barbeque sauce using a pastry brush when sausages are nearly done. Cook, continuing to turn sausages, until sauce has caramelized onto the meat, about 1 minute per side. Transfer to a plate and let sausages cool for about 30 seconds before removing skewers for serving.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 226.7 calories, Carbohydrate 5.5 g, Cholesterol 35.6 mg, Fat 17.1 g, Fiber 0.1 g, Protein 12 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, Sodium 847.1 mg, Sugar 2.6 g