Mix up a batch of breakfast sausage seasoning to make your own sausage patties, or use the seasoning in your favorite recipes to make them taste like breakfast sausages, even if there’s no sausage in them!
There are two reasons to make your own breakfast sausage seasoning. The first is so that you can make homemade breakfast sausages or breakfast patties. You can use it for turkey breakfast sausages and turkey patties too.
The other reason is because breakfast sausage seasoning is a really tasty mixture, and you can use it in other recipes.
Southern-style Breakfast sausages have a distinctive flavor. So, if you add the seasoning blend to other dishes, it gives them a bit of that feeling. You can use it to season ground beef while cooking it, or you can put some into soups or stews.
The mixture of sage, thyme, garlic, brown sugar, black pepper, red pepper flakes, and a touch of ground cloves really works with all kinds of things.
Note that there is salt in this mixture. Be careful not to add it to things that you’ve already salted. Or, you can mix up a batch without the salt and know that you need to add salt if using it in something unsalted.
Whether you’re making sausages or just want all your food to taste like sausages (who doesn’t want that???), we know you’re going to love this blend.
Enjoy!
Christine 🙂
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Breakfast Sausage Seasoning Recipe
Mix up a batch of breakfast sausage seasoning to make your own sausage patties, or use the seasoning in your favorite recipes to make them taste like breakfast sausages, even if there’s no sausage in them! This mixture makes enough for 5 pounds of ground meat. Use either ground pork or ground turkey, or a mixture of the two.
Listen to our editor, Christine Pittman, explain briefly how to make this seasoning mix, with some great tips along the way, by clicking the play button below:
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 7 Tablespoons 1x
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp. brown sugar, packed
- 5 tsp. dried sage
- 5 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. black pepper
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- ½ tsp. dried thyme
- ¼ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- ⅛ tsp. ground cloves
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a small bowl.
- Use immediately or store in a sealed container at room temperature for up to 2 months.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 teaspoon
As I have read your recipe I see that you can leave the sausage in a sealed container for up to 2 months at room temperature! Is this just a typo or what?
This recipe is specifically for the seasoning blend for breakfast sausage. The seasoning can be kept at room temp, but if you’d like the instructions for the actual sausages, you can find that here – https://thecookful.com/homemade-breakfast-sausage-patties/ Enjoy!
Tried for months to get a substitute for Sprouts breakfast sausage…excited to say the family loves this recipe ( make with chicken thighs) we tried many recipes and other brands ( Penzey’s, etc.) this is my go to recipe now! Thank you for posting!!
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You’re welcome, Sandy! So happy that this recipe was what you were looking for.
This was the first time I have done sausage this was a great recipe. We will continue to use it.
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Thanks, Jason! So glad you enjoyed!
I tried this recipe tonight. It really is delicious! My grown boys are really critical when it comes to sausage and they loved this!!! The only complaint they had was that I didn’t make the patties bigger!!! Lol Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!
Oh great, Dione! I’m glad it was such a hit!
We are not big fans of salt, so 5 tsp. sounds like a lot, can you cut back on salt?
It is enough to season 5 pounds of ground meat, Doug, so keep that in mind. But if you don’t like to use much salt in your cooking, of course you can cut that back to make it work for your family.
Going to try and save this recipe . Sausage costs so much to buy in the store. And fresh pork is pretty reasonable
Enjoy, Dwayne!
If I just want to season 1 lb. of sausage, how much would I use?
Mel, if you make a full batch of seasoning, it will season 5 lbs. of meat. For 1 lb. use one fifth of the seasoning. You could instead quarter the amounts in the ingredient list (because quartering is easier than dividing those measures by 5) and then use most of it.
Ms. Christine Pittman
Hello
I saw your site and it has good sections. I am an Iranian spice maker from the south of Iran, but I live in the beautiful city of Isfahan.
We always use seasonings and spices in food and I ask for your help.
Can you guide me to make some samples of spices or seasonings for sausages?
please. Thanks.
Sorry if my English is not good.
Sincerely .. Mehdi Rezaei Manesh.
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In addition to this breakfast sausage seasoning mix, we also have Italian sausage seasoning – https://thecookful.com/italian-sausage-seasoning-blend/ Enjoy!
How many pounds of ground pork will this recipe flavor?
This will be enough for 5 lbs., Taylor. Enjoy!