I recently started making my own Homemade Sausage Patties recipe and they are the bomb-diggity!
Let me tell you why…
They have no mystery ingredients like MSG, high fructose corn syrup, and sodium nitrate, among other weird ingredients I have no idea what they are. They taste good, and I mean good! My kids even gobbled them up with no complaints – and that’s saying something. This homemade sausage patties recipe is one that I can make ahead of time and freeze, making it another freezer meals recipe to make my mornings easier and less stressful. Below is the recipe, I hope you enjoy it!
Homemade Sausage Patties Recipe
Ingredients:
2 lbs ground pork, at room temperature
1.25 lbs ground turkey, at room temperature
1/3 cup pureed or finely chopped onion (puree or chop first in blender or food processor).
2 tsp finely minced fresh parsley, or dried if you don’t have fresh
2 tsp fine Celtic sea salt –>find quality salt products here
1 tsp ground sage (affiliate link)
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp dried basil (affiliate link)
1 tsp dried oregano
2 teaspoons pure maple syrup (Buy it on Amazon)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes, optional
Method:
To begin making this homemade sausage patties recipe you need to combine all the seasonings in a bowl and mix until well blended. Add in ground meat and onion, using your hands to combine thoroughly.
If cooking your homemade sausage patties recipe right away, shape into patties and cook over med-high heat on heavy skillet or griddle sprayed lightly with oil. Cook until nice and brown and no longer pink in the middle, a few minutes on each side.
Oh wait..what was I saying? Sorry this picture is making me drool and want to make and eat some more of this homemade sausage patties recipe. Okay back to the recipe… sorry about that. I get distracted easily.
To shape patties you can either use your hands or do what I did. Take some meat and place between two layers of plastic wrap. With a rolling pin roll out meat to desired thickness.
Remove top layer of plastic wrap. Take a round cookie cutter or top of a drinking glass, and press down to cut out nice round sausage patties.
Transfer to hot griddle to cook or baking sheet to be frozen.
To Freeze:
Shape and roll mixture into two logs about six inches long. Wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. To use, thaw and slice into patties with knife, then cook.
Or if you like, you can shape into patties, and layer them individually onto a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze. Then remove and add to a freezer safe gallon sized bag.
Make Ahead Homemade Sausage patties
Freezer Friendly Homemade Sausage Patties are perfect for a healthy breakfast and are so delicious!
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground pork at room temperature
- 1.25 lbs ground turkey at room temperature
- 1/3 cup pureed or finely chopped onion . puree or chop first in blender or food processor
- 2 tsp finely minced fresh parsley or dried if you don't have fresh
- 2 tsp fine Celtic sea salt
- 1 tsp ground sage
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 2 tsp pure maple syrup optional
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes optional
Instructions
- Combine all the seasonings and mix until well blended. Add in ground meat, syrup and onion, using your hands to combine thoroughly. If cooking right away, shape into patties and cook over med-high heat on heavy skillet or griddle sprayed lightly with oil. Cook until nice and brown and no longer pink in the middle, a few minutes on each side.
- To shape patties you can either use your hands or do what I did. Take some meat and place between two layers of plastic wrap. With a rolling pin roll out meat to desired thickness. Remove top layer of plastic wrap. Take a round cookie cutter or top of a drinking glass, and press down to cut out nice round sausage patties. Transfer to hot griddle or baking sheet to be frozen.
Recipe Notes
To Freeze: Shape and roll mixture into two logs about six inches long. Wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. To use, thaw and slice into patties with knife, then cook. Or if you like, you can shape into patties, and layer them individually onto a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze. Then remove and add to a freezer safe gallon sized bag.
I hope you try making this breakfast homemade sausage patties recipe – it is so delicious!
If you love freezer meals check out my huge list of Best Freezer meal recipes here.
These look great! I am right with ya on the no MSG or nitrates or other scary ingredients! Hope to make these soon. Thanks!
These look great! I’m going to try and make them this weekend! Love your website 🙂
Thank you! Let me know what you think..:)
This looks wonderful. I have in the past precooked the sausage patties (unfortunately mine were store bought) then baked eggs in a muffin pan and put them together with muffins or biscuits for a very easy breakfast. Just heat and serve. Think maybe I’ll do that today!
Oh yum – totally making these and I agree, tired of all the junk I can’t pronounce in my food. Thanks for sharing!
I have made my own sausage using pork butt from my local wholesale grocer, next time, I am planning to use your recipe. The commercial sausage is generally too spicy, too salty, and too fatty for the life style I would like to follow.
We don’t eat pork. I’ve tried all turkey meat & it has a wierd taste ( related to the meat not the mix) quickly rejected by my whole family. I even tried using it in sausage balls and got “turkey” complaints. Do you have any recommendations for another meat besides pork?? Thank you for great recipes!
Try using ground chicken for the recipe.
I think you might be able to make sausage out of many kinds of ground meats. Ground sirloin, deer, moose…I say give it a try. 🙂
Veal?
try using fish or eel
Karrie,
I love your posts on homemade foods with no unknown ingredients. I am still waiting to try your Hidden Valley Ranch one. I am considering starting the Feingold diet to help my son’s ADHD, which eliminates artificial stuff, a few preservatives know to be a problem and artificial sweeteners, which we already don’t do. I have been reading about it and it is very overwhelming to realize how much of this stuff is in food we eat everyday, even when we think it is good whole food- even some milk isn’t ok. It is very sad to me. Thank you for giving me some inspiration when I needed it!
So glad you are enjoying my new recipes and direction. I too am trying to get rid of many artificial ingredients and head back to real natural foods. But trying to do it on a budget. Thanks for your comment. 🙂
Yes it is the budget I am concerned about when trying to figure out how to do this. For people who don’t coupon, the change probably isn’t noticable. To a couponer changing from Kraft mac and cheese to Annies, that could be a $1 a box difference. You get it. Health is more important than money though, and if I have to give something up like my coffee habit, I will do it.
Made these, ate some right away and had second serving from frozen stock — delicious both times! Thank you for this simple recipe.
These were great! I left out the maple syrup (whoopsy) and they were perfect without it. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
When you freeze the patties, do you thaw them before cooking? I’m making brunch for a crowd and I’d love to be able to bake these in the oven from frozen ideally, any idea if this would work?
Yes you can go from the freezer to the oven–no thawing necessary! These would be perfect for a brunch!
These look positively wonderful and I am a sausage freak. Thanks Karrie. I will be making them for sure.
Have you ever cooked and THEN frozen? I’m thinking a quick zap in the microwave in the morning, and wondering how they would turn out. Thanks!
Yeah, I have tried cooking them and freezing them! It works great for the morning rush!
I just tried this recipe and its so amazing! I’m so glad that I found this recipe! Thank you so much!
I am so glad you like it!
Wanted to try this recipe but only had 3/4 pound of ground beef. So I halved or quartered some of the different spices, based on how much I like them and how good they go with beef. I left the maple syrup the same though. 😛 It tasted great.
I totally agree about the no additives and no MSG. I need to eat more protien for breakfast though since I cant eat eggs or bacon and I don’t trust regular sausage. 🙂 Thank you very much for the recipe, going to hopefully get ground turkey at some point and make some more 🙂
How many sausage patties does this make per batch?
Thank you so much!! I love your ideas and will be trying them all!!
I made and froze these last night and cooked two this morning for breakfast. Fantastic! I look forward to trying more of your recipes. Next on my list is homemade granola bars for the kids. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
I can’t wait to try this for my family later this week, but one question: if I use meat that was already frozen to make the patties, can I freeze the patties once they are made, or is it not ok to re-freeze?
Thank you!
Yes, as long as you defrost it in the fridge and then freeze again you are fine. You can’t thaw in the microwave or in the sink or even the counter and then refreeze it though–only the fridge! 🙂
Oh my! These seem quite delicious! I remember reading once that if you refrigerate overnight that the flavors are enhanced. I think I will try that method before cooking, and also make adjustments to the herbs for my taste preference. I first learned of homemade sausage when reading a magazine recipe for turkey sausage, but have yet to try it.
This is saved for me to try it with some ground elk that I have on hand and will pair it with some oven roasted sweet potato rounds for a yummy breakfast! Thank you for the inspirational reminder! 🙂
Let me know what you think if you try refrigerating then overnight first!
can this be made without the turkey?
It definitely could be made without turkey but you would need a replacement meat for it. I would say use all pork instead of the turkey.
I made these today with a few changes. I didn’t have sage or Turkey, instead I used rosemary. They turned out perfect. I will definitely be make in them again. Thanks for sharing.
This looks great! We are also trying to eliminate the “fake” stuff from our diet while maintaining a strict budget. How many patties will this yield, so I can do a cost comparison? Thanks!
This recipe made about 30 patties for me. 🙂
I got 42 out of mine, but I added a full pound of ground turkey
Just picked up a 1/2 hog from a local farmer (fresh air, not confinement!!) I didn’t want the locker to make the sausage, so I have a lot of ground pork. This recipe was perfect!! I didn’t use the turkey, parsley, syrup but it was really great. Thank you.
This is a must try for me. I have been working to eliminate processed foods from our menus for about 3 years now. Sausage is something we haven’t had in a long, long time. Can’t wait to try these & get sausage back on the menu. Bet they work great in any recipe calling for sausage crumbles too. I am already planning brunch for Sunday— sausage, potato, onion, & peppers hash, with eggs & homemade English muffin bread.
Oh & bet this recipe mixed with some rice would make awesome stuffed peppers.
Ooh! Great ideas!
Re the freezing: you could freeze them for 30 to 45 minutes in the log (as you describe) then you would probably be able to slice them quite easily and finish the freezing. I think that would be faster than rolling out and more convenient than having to slice them when you want to cook. Haven’t tried these yet but they look scrumptious.
thank you so much for this recipe, we moved and I have been on the search for round sausage patties that weren’t pre cooked, it seemed impossible and then I went hmm why not make your own, so bam found you and tired this recipe out, and its very good, and your tips for freezing are great, I have my batch currently freezing right now, only thing I would say is I will do half the amount of sage next time, I fried out a sausage round and found the sage to be a wee bit to much for me, but I am sure it will be ok once I have a breakfast sandwich made with a egg and cheese, thank again!
This is something worth trying because we can’t get sausage like that here in this part of Mexico.
If your ground turkey doesn’t taste good and has that obvious “turkey” flavor, it is because the meat is not fresh. We raise our own turkeys and make sausage. After 6-10months in the freezer it starts tasting like store bought turkey. Before that people can’t believe it’s not pork.
Oooo, thanks for sharing 🙂 We are off pork and relish tips like this!
SO WONDERFUL! I have been wanting to make this recipe for awhile now and finally did. I tried mixing it in my food processor as I had dirtied it with the onion. That didn’t work too well (too much meat for my fp). So I transferred it to my KitchenAid mixer. I didn’t want to have dirty hands as my little one is napping and I may have to rush to get him. Also, I am lazy. Mixer worked well and they are FABULOUS! Of course my nearly 5-year-old doesn’t like them because I made them, but she will be tricked shortly because I am making your breakfast sandwiches and there is no way she could refuse those. 😉 We don’t eat pork so I made it with 2lbs ground chicken and 1.25ish lbs of ground beef. Also, I think, personally preference here, I will leave out the basil next time. The husband and I are not fans of anything remotely fennely/licoricey tasting. Oddly enough fresh basil is cool with us! Now you know my life story. It is payment for your wonderful recipe!
I am so glad you like them! And it was definitely worth it to hear your story! I hope your daughter likes the breakfast sandwiches.
Just made these…. OMG! They are awesome! My husband loves them too and my two little picky eaters enjoyed them too asking for not only seconds but thirds. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe !!!
I am so glad that your family liked them!
Made these sausage patties last night, had them for breakfast today. VERY VERY TASTY. FANTASTIC, GREAT, THE BEST I HAVE EVER HAD. I will be making them again. Thanks
I know this is an old post, but I’d like to try this out. How long can you freeze them for? Thanks!
Best if used within 4-6 months! 🙂
This recipe is fantastic! I’ve made it a dozen times or more and with lots of different meat, it always turns out delicious.
This may sound dumb. But when you cook up the frozen patties, what is your method of doing it?
I usually use a griddle, heat it up well and place sausage patties on top of it. Then cook on one side until its fully cooked and then flip it over to the other side until it’s cooked as well.
Finished making the sausage patties yesterday, had them for breakfast today. It was very fantastic, thanks to your instructions. I will be making them again for new year party. Thanks.
Just made these and they are delicious. Will freeze cooked patties to make easy peasie breakfasts.
I would love to try these as i’m trying to live a healthier lifestyle but I can’t find Fine Celtic Sea Salt. Can I use Medatrainen fine sea salt or just fine sea salt in it’s place?
Any salt will do, even table salt. If you have fine celtic use it but if not, use regular table salt. 🙂
Homemade egg and sausage muffins here I come. Yummers!
How would these be frozen if you pre cooked them? Freeze then reheat?
I also like using store bought mild Italian sausage on pasta sauce and a variety of other dishes.
This has inspired me to try to make my own with ground pork. Do you have recipe for how to spice ground pork to taste like sausage?
Thanks!
For the best flavors and textures I like to freeze them raw and then cook on cooking day. But if you want to pre cook them first, you would cook, then cool, then freeze in a gallon freezer bag. Thaw in fridge overnight then heat on skillet until warm!
How long do you cook these for?
Great recipe! If I froze them as a 1/2 cm thick Pattie would I need to thaw to cook or could I get away with cooking from frozen ?!
You can cook from frozen -works great!
Is it my math or is this a type-o? 2 1/4 lbs on meat has to make more than 6 patties. I’ll be halfing this and trying this recipe out tomorrow Sunday morning breakfast.
Hello Karrie,
I was looking for sausage recipes online,and how to shape them at home when I came across your site.I really want to try it.They dont sell maple syrup where I am living at the moment.I do wish to add a bit of sweetness to the recipe when I try it.Could you give me more alternatives that I could try?
We have never made sausages at home and this would be my first time.I am a little unsure of what I can use to make the recipe sweet and what quantity I can use it in.Your input would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance and take care.