Cantimpalo Sausage Quijote
The cantimpalo sausage is a native of the province of Segovia, north of the Sierra de Guadarrama in Spain. Among cantimpalo sausages, Quijote brand is one of the most sought after for its exquisite quality. Cantimpalo sausage Quijote, like most sausages are made primarily of pork meat, inlaid and cured, subjected to a drying and maturing process that yields an excellent product.
Cantimpalo sausage Quijote is made in the US. It is known that three Spanish friends who immigrated to the US realized the absence of a true Spanish style in sausages sold in US and devoted themselves to the task of founding a company to maintain the purest Spanish traditions in their products, producing a line of sausages based on Spanish sausage recipes: the Quijote brand.
To prepare a good cantimpalo sausage Quijote it is needed pork meat from white animals, with no sex difference and males should be previously castrated. The meat must have a proportion of 70% to 80% lean and 20% to 30% of fat, no subcutaneous fat added. After the meat has been minced, paprika and salt are added as basic ingredients though oregano and garlic is also added in some variants.
It is important to specify that Cantimpalo sausage Quijote has no bacon or preservatives added. The quality of cantimpalo sausage Quijote comes from the selected meat which is always top, and the paprika (de la Vera), visually identified by its mooring with a tricolor thread. Cantimpalo sausage Quijote is uniformly firm, that is, neither hard nor too soft.