Our naturally delicious Portuguese Sausage products include the careful blending of quality chopped pork with selected subtle spices. All are manufactured under USDA Inspection. The distinguishing difference between the more subtle tasting LINGUICA and the spicier CHOURICO is the amount of chili pepper used in our manufacturing process. CHOURICO is available as either mild, hot, or extra-hot.

To enhance the authentic Portuguese flavor, all of our sausage products are smoked the traditional old-fashioned way... in fire-brick ovens over a hardwood fire.

Amaral's LINGUICA or CHOURICO can be served as the single main ingredient in food preparation or it can be prepared along with other complimentary ingredients to produce a wide variety of traditional Portuguese specialties for your dining pleasure. For your convenience, recipes are available at our website, or upon request.

How the Best Linguica is Produced

1. Lean trimmed pork arrives in trailer load shipments direct from the
cornbelt suppliers. (this eliminates middlemen; keeping consumer prices low.)

2. The pork is then coarsely ground and spiced with our carefully guarded
secret formula. This gives the product its unique and delicious flavor.
The mild version is Linguica, the spicier version is called Chourico.

3. After spicing, the meat is placed into a sausage stuffing machine,
stuffed, linked into sausages and hung on smoke trees for curing.

4. The hanging sausage is then put into a firebrick smoke house and slowly
smoked naturally over a 100% hardwood fire. This natural smoking process
gives the product its unique and special flavor.

5. Products are then cooled, packaged, weighed and distributed.

6. All processing is done under daily USDA inspection.