Making Homemade Breakfast Sausage is simple with ingredients already in your pantry! No need to grind your own meat! They’re also freezer-friendly, MSG-free, preservative-free, and gluten-free!
My husband is a breakfast person. One of his favorite breakfasts is fluffy scrambled eggs, sausage, and toast. He then spices up his eggs with hot sauce or fresh salsa. Have you read the package ingredients for breakfast sausage lately? I’m hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t contain MSG. The long list of unpronounceable ingredients is really what first prompted me to make Homemade Breakfast Sausage.
Making Homemade Breakfast Sausage is simple and used ingredients you know and trust that are already in your pantry! There’s also no need to grind your own meat if you start with a simple package of ground pork! I use 80% lean as you do need some fat in the pork to keep it from being dry and flavorless. You can use this loose as for sausage gravy or form it into patties. It’s totally up to you.
As I mentioned earlier, making Homemade Breakfast Sausage doesn’t necessarily mean you have to grind your own meat, although you can if you like, I usually just start with a package of freshly ground pork I pick up from the butcher. The seasonings in breakfast sausages are surprisingly simple: sage, thyme, rosemary, salt, ground black pepper along with a few other ingredients. What I noticed immediately about the list of spices was all of those ingredients together with some others are already in my poultry seasoning blend. So that’s what I use, one measurement and I’m done. Easy.
Two pounds of meat makes about 22 (1.5-ounces / 44 grams) sausage rounds. I cook some up for our breakfast and then form the rest into patties and individually freeze them on a silicone or wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
I then move them from the tray into a freezer bag. Don’t forget to label and date the bag. Sausages are good for up to 3-months in the freezer though they never really last that long.
This homemade breakfast sausage can also be used anywhere that a loose roll of breakfast sausage might be used like my Loaded Breakfast Biscuits.
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Homemade Breakfast sausage - MSG Free
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground pork [See Note 1]
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons poultry seasoning [See Note 2]
- 1 tbsp dried parsley
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes , more or less, to taste
Optional Seasoning:
- 2 tbsp Pure Maple syrup
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
Instructions
- Combine ground pork {see Note 1] with all other ingredients in a large mixing bowl. With clean hands, knead the mixture until well combined. Form the mixture into 2-inch rounds.
- For immediate use: Saute sausage patties over medium-low heat in a non-stick skillet. Cook until brown on both sides and cooked through, approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
- Alternatively, you may freeze the patties for up to 3 months. [See Note 5)
This is amazing. Thank you so much.
This can also be done using ground chicken or turkey. Use the dark meat because breast meat is too lean and less flavorful.
Perfect taste and texture. I made them big enough to cover my bread after they cooked for my fried egg sandwich.
Why didn’t I think of this? I’m so glad I stumbled across this recipe!