Turkey Breakfast Sausage Patties

Picholine's Note:

I combined different spices to achieve what tastes almost as good, if not better than regular sausage. Be sure to use regular ground turkey (not ground turkey breast, which is too lean so it doesn't have enough moisture). UPDATE: After all the positive reviews, I decided to submit this to Taste of Home's Light & Tasty and they published it in the Dec/Jan 2008 issue. It's also in the Light & Tasty Annual Recipes 2008 Cookbook.

• Total Time: 15 mins
• Prep Time: 7 mins
• Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 lb ground turkey
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons sage
• 1 teaspoon fennel seed
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• ½ teaspoon white pepper
• ½ teaspoon cayenne
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• 1⁄8; teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄8; teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄8; teaspoon allspice

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients (use less pepper if you don't want a spicy taste) and blend well.
2. If time permits, refrigerate overnight to let the meat absorb the flavor of the spices.
3. Form into patties and cook as needed, freezing leftovers.
4. Don't overcook or they will dry out--remove from the heat as soon as they're no longer pink inside, but still juicy. (if you prefer a moister texture, you add a splash of olive oil or an egg to the mixture just prior to cooking).

Reviews

[alaboutnow]

My kids and I love this recipe, but it can be expensive to make every day. Recently I got an idea from the Taco Bell incident. If they can add oats (which are really good for you anyway) to their taco meat, why can't I add it to my sausage? I ground some oats up in my food processor and added it to the sausage with a little water. It tasted great and I got an extra half pound!

[Maeven6]

This is a very simple and yet very good recipe. I tried it twice, first with the brown sugar and found it too sweet. This was agreed on by the entire family of seven. Second try I used smoked salt in place of regular salt and then doubled the sweet spices. That was a perfect blend and is now my little tweak to the recipe. All the other spices I left the same, save the garlic I only used fresh no powder, just didn't add it in at all. Thanks for an excellent addition to our morning eggs or evening pancake suppers.

[DanaJoy!]

I will make this again but the amount of sage in this recipe was too much. Next time I will use half the amount. This may seem a small thing but it totally ruined what I'm sure would have otherwise have been a great recipe. My family all agreed, too.