Appetizer with thai turkey sausage - need ideas

[rosepoint]

I need your brilliant minds to help me come up with an appetizer for Christmas dinner . I have two criteria I'd like in the dish:

1) Use the turkey sausage (thai flavored) that I made from scratch from our farm raised turkeys
2) Fit the appetizer in small amuse bouche glasses that I just bought so no casseroles

Any ideas? I'm just totally drawing a blank today.

[Terrie H.]

Curious about the form of your sausage - is it in casings? Is it raw or cured? It sounds wonderful.

[rosepoint]

The sausage is bulk not in casings. I would have used casings but forgot to order them in time for the turkey processing. It's raw sausage - not cured. If I hadn't already had a hog processed just a few months before the turkeys I would have stuck to more traditional sausage flavors. I'm glad that I ventured out into something other than Italian sausage.

The green curry sausage was a recipe is found here:

http://thespicysausage.com/recipes/th...

I just used turkey and not turkey and chicken.

The lemongrass and chili sausage I just made up because I was tired of making the green curry.

[Terrie H.]

It sounds wonderful. The reason I asked is because I made something for a large cookout two summers ago that you might work into your dish. Being monetarily-challenged, I took advantage of a terrific price at my local market for ground turkey. I flavored it with typical lawn gai salad ingredients and some panko and made little meatballs. Baked, cooled, and wrapped each in a bit of butter lettuce, and served with a little rice vinegar, sugar and sweet chile sauce dip. Not sure if any part of this will work for you, but it worked well for me as a room-temp, make-ahead hit.

[whinendine]

Try little slices of the sausage with small slices of fresh pineapple. When we are in Chiang Mai, we have this and it is a delicious combination.

[Feed Me]

Which Thai flavors did you use in the sausage?

[rosepoint]

These sound like great ideas. The glasses are pretty small but I could chop rather than slice the cucumbers as katecm suggested.

There are 2 types of sausage one is a green curry flavor and the other is chili and lemongrass.

[alliegator]

Since it's nice homemeade sausage, I would let it stand on it's own a bit. Maybe fill the bottom of the glasses with a bright sweet chili sauce, then make small skewers of rounds or chunks of the sausage and grill it on a grill pan, and place in the glass with the sauce. For a bit of green, you could tie a green onion around the base of the glass, or put a little lime wedge on the tops of the skewers.

[katecm]

How big are the glasses? Maybe toss some noodles in a green curry sauce and put one forkful in a spiraled pile at the bottom of the glass, then top with a slice of your sausage, and then top that with some thinly sliced pickled cucumbers?

Would that be too dificult to eat?