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!
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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.
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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.
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Wow, very tasty. Took some ideas from others, made 3lbs ground turkey, 1lb ground pork. Didn't have fennel seeds, but since it's the locorice flavor we want, I substituted with anise extract, I also had star anise which would have also worked. Didn't have thyme either so omitted and it still turned out awesome.I like sausage on the sweet side so added 1 tspoon of brown sugar and 3 teaspoons of maple syrup, which I like on sausage and strangely not on pancakes.
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What a blessing this recipe is! We hold to a kosher diet so no Pork :( With this recipe we are able to enjoy a better meat that leaves all other breakfast sausage in the dust.
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This is very good! my youngest son is allergic to nitrates so store-bought bacon and sausage are a no-no in our house and purchasing nitrate-free foods can be expensive! This was easy to make, I purchased 4 lbs. ground turkey from Costco, prepped the seasonings (leaving out cayenne & white pepper). The meat was cold! So I used my Kitchen aid mixer to stir it all up. I immediatley cooked up enough for breakfast right then...it was very good. Let the rest sit a couple of hours, formed into patties and baked in the oven and into the freezer they go. This is a trifecta winner at our house: good taste, less cost, and healthy!
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Great recipe! so quick to put together, and great to toss in the freezer for quick breakfast sandwiches to-go. I didn't have white pepper, fennel seeds, or garlic powder though. Instead, I used caraway seeds, minced fresh garlic, and more black pepper. Just the right amount of bite. I can imagine fennel seeds being perfect though, so I'll pick some up for next time. I used lean ground turkey, omitted salt, and baked them in the oven so they were even healthier, and I didn't feel robbed of flavours. I did add an egg, which I thought worked well. Overall, great blend of spices. My family thought the addition of allspice flavours were perfect and very interesting.
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I subbed 1 lb 90% lean pork and 1 lb white ground turkey, then doubled the spices (used cracked red pepper instead of cayenne). Just my personal preferences. A wonderful tasty recipe for the family! Thank you!!
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This is very good. Based on other reviews, I reduced the amount of pepper that I added and we felt that it was not hot enough. Next time I will follow the recipe exactly.
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This was perfect! I didn't have fennel seed but will buy some for the future. I also used an egg and a tsp brown sugar as suggested and 2 tsp chopped jar garlic as i don't stock garlic powder. I used the pepper amounts as written and was very happy with the amount of heat! The egg made it extremely moist (at first I thought it might be too soupy but the firmed up when fried). Frying with Olive oil cooking spray gave a drier sausage, frying in straight olive oil made it even more moist! I didn't have enough left over to freeze, but next time I'll triple the recipe! Thanks for this!
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Truly amazing recipe! I just made this a second time this morning. I use 3lb 85/15 turkey and 1lb lean pork and quadruple the spices. Rubbed leaf sage from The Spice House (online) makes so much difference in the richness of flavor. I combine all the whole spices in a coffee grinder and grind to a powder, then add to meat. My family says it's better than any store-bought they've ever had. Thank you so much, Picholine!
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this was pretty yummy. I did make a few changes: decreased sage, omitted fennel, and decreased the pepper. It was still pretty hot, but my 9 year old ate it, so not too hot. I also added about a teaspoon of brown sugar, to give a tad bit of sweetness. It was very good. I will definitely make this again.
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What an awesome recipe! I was so excited that I made a small patty right away. It was delicious. You so nailed this recipe with the flavors. Yes, it is so worth it to let the seasonings penetrate the meat. Amazing. After reading the other reviews (and boy I'm glad I did), I cut the cayenne to about a pinch. Spicy and I don’t go well together. I also halved the sage for the pound of meat. Thank you, Picholine. You ROCK! Congrats on getting this recipe published. Is a five star…ten star hands down.
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Excellent. Thank you. I love sausage. but strive to eat healthy. I will be following tara's lead in keeping this mix in large quantities so I can make it often. :)
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5 stars for sure! I cooked breakfast-sized patties, put them on a whole wheat English muffin with an egg (or eggbeaters) and 2% cheese slice. Perfect low fat, high protien, DELICIOUS, low calorie breakfast! I made up two pounds and froze so I'm ready for breakfast on the go after morning workouts! I did cut the salt in half, and still tastes great! Yum, my new favorite weight loss breakfast!
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Another 5-star review! I foolishly bought a 5lb roll of ground turkey because, between the sale and the coupon, it was less that $1/lb. But I don't really like ground turkey--so what to do with it? I searched for a sausage recipe, and this was spectacular! I made half immediately, and I thought the flavor was terrific. I've prepped the rest to make tomorrow morning, to see if I can tell a difference when the spices have had a chance to meld. The dogs are begging for more!
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Love this. Like the other reviewer said the Fennel is a bit too strong but we didn't mind about it. I did fry before I froze the patties, they are a bit dry but save time in the morning for me. Definitely a keeper.
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Love love love this recipe! I love that it is fairly light (really light compared to pork sausage). I love that it tastes just like breakfast sausage. I have used this recipe to make patties, but also just loose for crumbles which are excellent for breakfast burritos as well as on pizza. I think I will need to make a big batch of the seasonings up, as another reviewer mentioned, to make this recipe just that much easier to do in the mornings. This one has been in my permanent rotation for a while now, thank you so much for posting it!
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Nice sausage recipe. I didn't refrigerate overnight and the sage taste was a little over the top. I'm hoping that the flavor will mellow out a bit after sitting overnight. I didn't have fennel seed on hand so I used caraway seeds instead. I figure any anise-flavor seed would do. So yeah, great tasting sausage. I'll maybe cut down the sage to 1 tsp next time.
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I only had lean turkey breast on hand and added 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 egg white to the meat mixture. Used only a pinch of thyme. Tastes just like sausage but not greasy or as high in fat. I'll be serving these for breakfast and for making egg muffins. Thanks for posting. cg
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