Start your morning off right with homemade breakfast sausage. This scrumptious recipe isn't going to take long to complete, and it will pair well with whatever else you put on your plate. You can eat these juicy breakfast sausages with scrambled eggs, french toast, or a stack of buttermilk pancakes. It will enhance any morning meal without requiring much effort.
Tips for the Best Homemade Breakfast Sausage
To create a juicy, delicious breakfast sausage, follow this advice.
- Avoid touching the sausage patties when you can. Touching them with your hands for an extended period of time could warm the ground meat and cause it to dry out faster. Then your finished sausages won't be as juicy.
- Avoid using high heat. It's best to cook sausage on low to medium heat because they have a high fat content and burn easily. If you turn the temperature up too high, then the sausage could end up burning before the inside is done, leaving you with dry patties.
- Place your sausage in the fridge before cooking. If your patties keep falling apart, you can chill them in the fridge for 15 minutes before cooking. This should help them solidify.
Ingredients
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1 pound ground pork
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1 teaspoon dried sage, crushed
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¾ teaspoon salt
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¾ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
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½ teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
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½ teaspoon garlic powder
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½ teaspoon onion powder
Directions
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In a large bowl, combine ground pork, sage, salt, pepper, thyme, garlic powder, and onion powder. Mix ingredients thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
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To form patties, divide the meat mixture into six equal portions. Shape each portion into a ball and flatten with the palm of your hand into 3 1/2-inch wide patties.
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Heat an extra-large skillet over medium heat until hot. Place the patties in the skillet and cook about 8 minutes or until browned and 165°F in the center, tuning once halfway through cooking. Serve hot.
Fennel-Apple
Add 1/2 cup shredded peeled apple and 1/2 teaspoon crushed fennel seeds to the meat mixture.Nutrition analysis per serving: same as above except 173 calories, 2 g carbohydrate, 1 g total sugar, 1% Vitamin C
Garlic-Onion
Substitute 1/3 cup finely diced onion for the onion powder and 2 garlic cloves, minced, for the garlic powder.Nutrition analysis per serving: 171 calories, 2 g carbohydrate, 2% Vitamin C
Maple
Add 2 tablespoons maple syrup and a pinch of nutmeg. You can also add 1/3 cup finely chopped pecans, if desired.Nutrition analysis per serving: 185 calories, 5 g carbohydrate, 4 g total sugar
Mushroom-Red Pepper
Add 3/4 cup chopped sauteed mushrooms (cook 1 1/2 cups chopped mushrooms in 1 tablespoon hot olive oil) and 1/4 cup chopped roasted red sweet pepper to the meat mixture. Nutrition analysis per serving: 195 calories, 2 g carbohydrate, 14 g total fat, 1 g fiber, 1 g total sugar, 29% Vitamin AC 6% iron
Turkey
Substitute ground turkey for the ground pork. Add 1/2 cup shredded peeled apple to the meat mixture.Nutrition analysis per serving: 143 calories, 13 g protein, 2 g carbohydrate, 10 g total fat (3 g sat. fat), 59 mg cholesterol, 0 g fiber, 1 g total sugar, 2% Vitamin A, 1% Vitamin C, 332 mg sodium, 3% calcium, 7% iron
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
| 168 | Calories |
| 12g | Fat |
| 1g | Carbs |
| 14g | Protein |
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Servings Per Recipe 6 | |
| Calories 168 | |
| % Daily Value * | |
| Total Fat 12g | 15% |
| Saturated Fat 4g | 20% |
| Cholesterol 51mg | 17% |
| Sodium 343mg | 15% |
| Total Carbohydrate 1g | 0% |
| Protein 14g | 28% |
| Vitamin C 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium 18mg | 1% |
| Iron 0.9mg | 5% |
| Potassium 195mg | 4% |
| Folate, total 2.1mcg | |
| Vitamin B-12 0.6mcg | |
| Vitamin B-6 0.4mg | |
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.