Homemade Chicken and Spinach Sausage

We combined a few other recipes to come up with this. It is excellent. This can be made for patties or stuffed into pork casings. It is awsome in Alfredo.

• Ready In: 1 hr 50 mins
• Serves: 8
• Yields: 8 sausage Links

Ingredients

• 4 1⁄2 lbs chicken thighs
• 7 -10  ounces fresh spinach (1 bag)
• 5  teaspoons salt
• 2  teaspoons ground black pepper
• 2  teaspoons dried sage
• 1  teaspoon dried thyme
• 4  garlic cloves

Directions

1. Remove the bones from the chicken thighs, leave the fat on.
2. Cut into 1" dices into a bowl.
3. Chop garlic and add to the chicken.
4. Add remaining spices.
5. Stir all ingredients in the bowl then refrigerate for at least an hour.
6. Course Chop Spinach and mix with the other ingredients.
7. Grind the enitre contents through a course grinder.
8. After grinding the sausage by hand for a couple of minutes.
9. At this point you can either keep as bulk sausage, make patties or stuff into pork casings.
10. Can be served by itself or in a spaghetti or Alfredo sause.
11. Cook within 2-3 days or freeze for up ot 4 months.