I love the flavor of breakfast sausage and it’s even better when it’s homemade!
These homemade breakfast sausage patties have a savory blend of spices and add lots of delicious flavor to your morning plate!
Casing-free, they can be shaped like patties or even cooked in a pan to add to breakfast casseroles.
Homemade Breakfast Sausage
- Great Flavor: These homemade sausages are full of flavor
- Make It Your Way: Adjust the spices to suit your taste. Make it mild, spicy, or even sweet by adding a tablespoon of brown sugar or maple syrup.
- Any Time of Day: Sausage isn’t just for breakfast, it’s great in casseroles or even for appetizers like sausage balls or sausage rolls!
- Make it Lean: Use ground turkey or lean ground beef if you’d like.
What Gives Breakfast Sausage Its Flavor?
Pork has a little bit of fat and a mild flavor that pairs well with seasonings and spices. A blend of fennel, sage, and smoked paprika adds flavor to this homemade breakfast sausage.
How to Make Breakfast Sausages from Scratch
- Using your hands, combine all of the seasonings with ground pork in a large bowl.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Divide the mixture into 6 equal patties and fry in a hot skillet.
Recipe Tips
- For an even flavor, combine the seasonings first, and then add them to the ground pork.
- Be sure to let the sausage mixture rest before cooking.
- Cook sausage in the oven, air fryer or in a skillet.
- Double the batch and freeze, this homemade breakfast sausage recipe is great for breakfast sandwiches.
Storage and Reheating
Keep cooked sausage in the fridge for up to 4 days, reheat in the microwave just until heated through.
Patties are easy to freeze in zippered bags with the date labeled on the outside and they will keep about 2 months.
Ways to Use Breakfast Sausage
Homemade sausage patties are great alongside fried eggs or in breakfast sandwiches. It can also be browned in a skillet and added to casseroles or breakfast burritos.
Did you make these Homemade Breakfast Sausages? Be sure to leave a comment and a rating below!
Homemade Breakfast Sausages
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork
Seasoning Mixture
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon fennel seeds crushed, optional
- ½ teaspoon ground sage
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon poultry seasoning
- ⅛ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- ⅛ teaspoon dried rosemary crushed
- ⅛ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
Instructions
- Combine pork and all seasonings in a medium bowl. Mix very well.
- Refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Divide meat into 6 patties, ½" thick.
To Cook
- Heat a skillet over medium heat.
- Add patties (and a pat of butter if you'd like) and cook 4 minutes per side or until lightly browned.
Notes
For a spicy sausage, add 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper or extra chili flakes. To crush spices place them in a small sandwich bag and crush them with a rolling pin or meat mallet. Ground turkey can be substituted for some or all of the ground pork.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Breakfast, Pork
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Pure ground pork is complicated to come by where I live, but half beef/half pork mince is readily available. Do you think that could work for this? Or would that change the taste too much? Really craving a taste of home after being in another country without a visit home for way too long.
I think it’d be delicious!
Great recipe! Foolproof, and it goes great as the star of my southern sausage biscuit recipe. Down south, they put a sausage patty between a halved, flaky, buttermilk biscuit and it’s a great breakfast on the go! Be sure and make your biscuits with White Lily self-rising flour. That is THE secret of all southern cooks!