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!
Note: Below you’ll find a recipe for a full 1/2 cup (4oz.) batch of breakfast sausage seasoning. In addition, in case you only need a little bit, we’ve also given a recipe below that makes a small batch of just 2 tablespoons. We hope you find this helpful!
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, as well as this great beef breakfast sausage.
The other reason is because breakfast sausage seasoning is a really tasty mixture, and you can use it in other recipes. When you do, it will make anything you add it to taste like sausages!
Southern-style Breakfast sausages have a delicious 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, mix up a batch without the salt and know that you need to add salt if using it in something unsalted.
Video: How To Make Sausage Seasoning And Sausage Patties
Making a Small Batch of Breakfast Sausage Seasoning
If you want a batch of Sausage Seasoning in your pantry that you can grab and use whenever, then scroll down to make the full recipe. However, if you just want a small batch to use right now in a recipe, or, if you just want to know approximately how much of each ingredient to add directly to something that you’re cooking so that it will have the same general sausage flavor, I have the info for you below as well.
Do note that this recipe and the small batches all contain salt so you will probably not want to add anything else that contains salt, or any additional salt.
This is how to make about 2 tablespoons of the seasoning. For reference that is enough seasoning for about 3/4 to 1 pound of ground meat.
| To Make 2 Tablespoons of Breakfast Sausage Seasoning, Combine: |
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• 2 tsp. brown sugar, packed • 1 and 1/2 tsp. dried sage • 1 and 1/2 tsp. salt • 1/2 tsp. black pepper • 1/8 tsp. garlic powder • 1/8 tsp. dried thyme • a pinch of cayenne pepper (optional) • a very small pinch of cloves (optional) |
To Add Directly to the Food You’re Cooking: Add some brown sugar. Add one-third as much of dried sage and of salt. Then go in with a pinch of black pepper, garlic powder, and dried thyme. A pinch of cayenne is optional.
So those are the small batches of the seasoning, the full recipe is below. Whether you’re making sausages or just want all your food to taste like sausages (who doesn’t want that???), I can’t wait for you to try this. I know you’re going to love this blend! Be sure to check out all of our other homemade seasoning blends over here.
More Sausage Seasonings:
If you like the idea of making your own Breakfast Sausage Seasoning, you will also love making other seasoning blends that are used to flavor sausage. These can be used to make sausage, or also to make other dishes you cook have that flavor profile. They’re wonderful mixes to have on hand!
Enjoy! -Christine xo
Podcast Episode About Making Breakfast Sausage
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:
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.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 7 Tablespoons 1x
- Category: Seasoning
- Method: Mix
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp. brown sugar, packed
- 5 tsp. dried sage
- 5 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. black pepper
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. dried thyme
- 1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- 1/8 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.
- This blend is the right amount for 5 pounds of uncooked ground meat (ground pork or ground turkey are the best). You can also use this seasoning on other things, like sprinkled on your bagel and cream cheese, or into soups or onto roasted potatoes. It makes everything taste like breakfast!
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Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 teaspoon
how would you change it to use in a vegan sausage based on oats, soy veggie protein.
I’ve never made my own vegan sausage, Larry, but I imagine you could still use this seasoning blend with your veggie sausage recipe.
Great tasting sausage, doubled the ingredients and made 2 lbs with 50-50 pork and deer hamburg only 2 patties left, great flavor.
That’s wonderful to hear, Richard! So happy you’re enjoying.
I add the seasoning to regular sausage? Or how would I adapt so that I could make regular sausage taste like breakfast sausage? Thank you for your response
Terri, I’m not entirely sure what you mean by regular sausage. If you mean bulk sausage or anything labeled as ground sausage, or sausages in casings, then the answer is no, you can’t just use our recipe added to that. The reason is that those items already have seasonings and salt in them. If you add our breakfast sausage seasoning to that, it will be overly seasoned and too salty. If you have plain ground pork, then you can absolutely add our seasoning blend to that.
Now, if you have bulk sausage or something labeled ground sausage, there is something you can try. As I said, it’s already seasoned so you just have to be careful that you’re not over-seasoning it. What I would do is to mix up a batch (or half batch) of the seasoning blend but without salt. Then take about 1/4 cup of the meat and add a teaspoon of the seasoning to it. Mix it gently, form it into a couple of small patties, and then cook them. You can even just microwave them 30 seconds at a time until they’re no longer pink. You’re just trying to get an idea of the amount of seasoning. Then let them cool and taste them. If you like the flavor, then you can go ahead and add those same spices to the rest of your meat. If it needs salt, you can add salt to your seasoning blend. If you don’t like it, you can adjust the amount of seasoning. Primarily, you’ll be getting an idea of if your already seasoned sausage meat will taste good with this additional seasoning blend added to it.
Mmmmm….mmm…mmgoooood!!!!!!!
Thanks, Debra!
I will try this year with some deer meat
Enjoy, Bruce!
Will try it with a 50-50 mix of pork and deer meat.
Enjoy, Richard!
Looking forward to using this recipe to make some breakfast patties….
Yum! We’ve got tips and instructions for breakfast patties here (https://thecookful.com/homemade-breakfast-sausage-patties/) for you. Enjoy, Mesha!
how much do you put in 1lb pork
About 1 and 1/2 Tbsp. of the seasoning blend. If you’d like to only make that of the seasoning, there’s measurements above the recipe card, Doug. Enjoy!
At the last minute found I didn’t have sausage seasoning so substituted with yours using ground turkey for a “sausage”, kale frittata. Absolutely perfect. Thanks for sharing 🙂
You’re welcome! I love when these recipes are able to save the day. We’ve got a whole section on Seasoning Blends in case you ever find yourself needing another one. 🙂
I used this seasoning blend to dr. Up some sausage we got that was tasteless. How can I get some of the rest of your seasoning blend recipes?
All our seasoning blends can be found here – https://thecookful.com/category/seasoning-blends/ Enjoy, Bob!
Sounds very similar to the one I used to have! Thanks for sharing this one. I’ll be trying it soon!
Wonderful, Mary Jo! I hope you enjoy.
How much water is needed when mixing this recipe with 5 lbs ? is 3/4 cup of ice water enough?
We suggest a cup of water per 2.5 lbs, Gary. You can see more info here – https://thecookful.com/homemade-breakfast-sausage-patties/ Enjoy!
How much meat do I use with this?
The full seasoning recipe makes enough to season 5lbs. of meat. It works out to a little under 1.5 Tbsp per pound of meat. Enjoy, Dorothy!
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!!
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.
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.
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!