Homemade Breakfast Sausage
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Nothing beats homemade! These sausage patties are so so easy to make and they’re also freezer-friendly. Win-win!
Not sure if it’s the New Year, or if it’s the quarantine-lockdown-stay-at-home-order, but I’ve been making A LOT of things from scratch.
Pizza dough. Rosemary bread. Sourdough biscuits. Pasta. English muffins. Hamburger buns. (recipes for the latter all coming soon). I HAVE BEEN MAKING ALL OF IT CONSTANTLY.
Now I can add sausage patties to the list. And believe me when I tell you that it is so hard to beat homemade.
With just a few spices, ground pork and bacon (yes, we need just a little bit of bacon fat here!), these guys are simply perfect. Not to mention, they are completely freezer-friendly, giving you 100% breakfast insurance down the road.
Homemade Breakfast Sausage
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage leaves
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, optional
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 ½ pounds ground pork
- 3 slices uncooked bacon, diced
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup, optional
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
Instructions
- SAGE MIXTURE: In a small bowl, combine sage, thyme, fennel seeds, red pepper flakes, nutmeg, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper.
- In a large bowl, combine pork, bacon, maple syrup and SAGE MIXTURE; be careful not to over mix.
- To shape the patties, scoop out 1/4 cup (about 2 ounces) of pork mixture and flatten to create 2 1/2- to 3-inch wide patties, forming about 16 patties.*
- Heat canola oil in a large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add sausage patties and cook until browned, about 2-3 minutes per side.
Notes
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Don’t forget to add the bacon!
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I made this yesterday. I didn’t have fresh sage or thyme, so I used dry. Just half as much. I formed into patties and froze over night. I made breakfast sausage biscuit with homemade sourdough biscuit, this sausage patty recipe, a slice of cheese and an egg over medium. It was fantastic! The maple syrup adds just a hint of sweetness. Way better than McDonald’s and you won’t feel sick after eating. I will be making again. I may try more sage and thyme or make sure I have fresh next time.
“Way better than McDonald’s and you won’t feel sick after eating.” Great statement! There is absolutely no comparison between good homemade breakfast sausage versus the stuff MacDs has. MacD food also makes me feel sick, so I rarely have any.
great combo of herbs. But Canola oil is a GMO. created by MONSANTO
TBF there are non-GMO canola oils. Still not a healthy oil.
All you need to do is substutute it out for avocado oil
This was amazing!!! I cannot eat store-bought sausage of any kind nor can I eat processed meats… I am on dialysis and I have issues with my phosphorus and all the processed meats including sausage has a lot of it… I have been searching for the longest time for a recipe that I would like… I did not expect it to taste like Jimmy Dean sausage but I wanted it to be good and flavorful… I came across this recipe by accident and I pinned two different ones yours and another one… I decided to try yours first and I lost my mind… I made sausage gravy out of it and believe it or not even with the maple syrup it taste amazing… a couple things I did different was I did not have any fresh sage and I used powdered and it was fine… The other thing was I mixed everything up together put it in a baggie squeeze the air out of it and let it sit in the fridge for two days before I cooked it so All the flavors could blend together… I wanna make some more and I started to try that other recipe to see how that was and I’ve just decided I’m not gonna mess with it anymore…. Your recipe is going to be my go to recipe now
Wonderful! I omitted the maple syrup, just started a no sugar diet, added extra fennel (the Sicilian in me), added some oregano, and instead of hot pepper flakes, I used a large, finely diced jalapeño.
Simply delicious!
These are truly so good! I used turkey instead of pork in mine. I would recommend reducing the salt to 1/2 tsp at most. The bacon is already makes the sausage pretty salty and the extra 1 1/2 tsp of salt made this too salty.
Holy Cow! This blew away my expectations.
I did not have fresh thyme so I used ground thyme, just cut it down.
I did not have nutmeg, so I used cinnamon.
Still, when all was said and done it tasted phenomenal. This one is going in my recipe books!
Had breakfast for supper tonight and these exceeded my expectations! Thanks for a delicious and easy recipe
Better than store bought with all the same flavor! How did it take me this long in life to discover the joy of home grinding ? I will definitely be saving and making this recipe again!
So so yummy, thank you! (I only had dried herbs which worked fine, I just lessened amounts a bit. Also, no bacon on hand so just omitted. Also used avocado oil instead of canola.
great taste!!
So good, great flavor, added a little more crushed red pepper because we like spice. Didn’t have breakfast sausage so I made my own with ground pork. I used your buttermilk biscuit recipe also Kids loved it too!
AMAZING! Just made them following your recipe to the point. And It’s so good I can’t stop thinking about having more!
People who omitt some ingredients or don’t properly substitute them don’t know what they’re missing!
And NO, I usually DON’T like maple flavoured meat! This one though – SO GOOD.
I make everything homemade. Being a farmers daughter we learn it at a young age. Thank You
Yummy! The only ingredient missing was the fennel seed. The store did not have any. They came out great and I have a dozen in the freezer for weekday breakfast. Thanks for another winner!
Fennel seed is used in Italian sausage while this is breakfast sausage
Tried this and it is really good. I had to leave out the salt, bacon and maple syrup (high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes). Added a few drops of liquid smoke and upped the other herbs and spices a little along with a little garlic powder and it came out really good. Thanks.
Very tasty! We made it for the kids while stuck inside during quarantine after testing positive. Everyone loved it. I would prob go down a bit on the salt next time but other than that, excellent! (We left out the maple)
This actually worked. I hate Maple flavored meat though, so skipped it.
I didn’t want to use Bacon, sort of defeating the purpose of making breakfast sausage. But One of the things I do is smoke pan of Lard when I smoke Brisket or some other meat that is smoked for over 4 hrs. Then I pour into a pint canning jar and refrigerate. Lasts forever that way and I use it to flavor smoked pork ribs or other things. Do I took 2tbs melted it, and want to cool it enough that you can touch it like around 115 deg, then mix it in the Sausage with all the other ingredients. Also I used about 1tsp kosher salt and 1tsp black pepper. My daughter actually liked it. surprised me. It smelled awesome cooking it too. Used the crush red pepper flakes, but reduce the amount unless you REALLY like a heat kick in your breakfast sausage. Went and bought several pounds of ground pork to make more and freeze them
Sooooo good