Who needs the convenience of prepackaged breakfast sausage full of unhealthy ingredients, when making your own is not only easy but by far healthier.
Your typical packaged sausage product is going to have ingredients like sodium lactate, sodium phosphate, monosodium glutamate, sodium diacetate along with dextrose and maltodextrin. These unpronounceable words are code for salt and sugar. Not just any old salt and sugar though. No, these additives are meant to excite areas in our brain which trigger us to eat more and want more. So say goodbye to Jimmy Dean and make your own healthy Breakfast Sausage with today’s easy recipe.
I know we got a lot of bacon lovers around these parts, but if you are looking for a little variety with your morning eggs how about trying your hand at making healthy Breakfast Sausage. It’s super easy, I promise. All you need are a few spices, of which you probably already have in your cupboard, and a pound of ground pork, ground chicken, ground turkey or even ground beef. Heck, you can even go wild and do a combination. You can make little sausage patties and cook in a cast iron skillet on the stove top or for variation, make cute little sausage balls and bake in the oven in a mini-muffin tin. Either way, this breakfast sausage is delicious! I hope you give it a try.
Oh, and by the way, to learn more about how food scientists have been employed to come up with the winning combination of salt, fat and sugar to trick not only our brains but our bodies into the cycle of anticipation, craving and addiction, I highly recommend the fabulous book The End of Overeating by Dr. David Kessler, former Commissioner of the United States food and Drug Administration. You can also read this short article I wrote late last year, with the same title. Just be prepared, you will never look at a box of cereal the same.
Now let’s get in the kitchen and make healthy Breakfast Sausage, shall we?!
Breakfast Sausage
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: varies on method
Serves: 12 patties or 24 mini-sausage balls
Ingredients
- 1 lb. Ground Pork
- 1 tsp. Celtic Sea Salt
- 1 tsp. Sage
- 1 tsp. Thyme
- 1 tsp. Paprika
- 1 tsp. Black Pepper
- 1/2 tsp. Cayenne Pepper
- 1/2 tsp. Nutmeg
Directions
- Measure and mix spices.
- Add spices to ground pork.
- With hands, mix spices and pork together.
- For mini-sausage balls, roll into 24 balls and place each one in mini-muffin tin.
- Bake at 350°F for 20-23 minutes or until no longer pink in the center.
- For sausage patties, form into 12 equal size patties.
- Pan fry in cast iron skillet, on medium-high heat, 3-4 minutes per side or until no longer pink in the center.
- Enjoy!
I’ve made the patties and there delicious. Now I’m going to try making them in the oven. I only have half pound ground pork and half pound grass fed beef on hand but I know they will still come out great ;0)
These are yummy, aren’t they?! The pork and beef combo is great as well.
I made your breakfast sausage recipe this morning and it was absolutely delish i will try groundpork/beef next time and the oven bake also i will use this all the time can’t wait to try the other many-many recipes you have on your site Thanks.
That great you enjoyed them Joe!
Looks so delish! Can’t wait to try!
I make these and freeze them raw in scooped portions (1 oz), then just take out what I need, usually 1 is a perfect portion for an egg, 1 can be wrapped easily around a boiled egg (scotch egg) and I can take more for adding to other dishes….great invention!
Hi Vanessa! Are these okay to freeze so we can have them on hand after making a batch?
Wow! These are awesome!! Made them with ground chicken tonight. Never buying the “Jimmy Dean” sausages again.
Thank you!!