We try to eat a lot of good protein for breakfast in our household. Not just because we don’t eat toast, cereals and pastries for breakfast, but because it keeps us going strong until lunch time if we eat a good sized, protein packed meal in the morning. Some of our favorite breakfast combinations are organic eggs in all forms, thick cut bacon and greens lightly dressed with oil and vinegar. Recently, I came up with the idea to make our own breakfast sausage so we could take a break from bacon. I am a sucker for breakfast sausage patties, and it’s healthier and cheaper to make them yourself instead of buying them pre-packaged. Plus, they are easy to make! If you can make a meatball, you can make these.
You’ll need:
1pound of ground pork. We bought local pork shoulder and had the guy at the meat counter grind it for us nice and fresh
1 teaspoon of fresh sage finely chopped
1 teaspoon of paprika- I like the hot kind
1 teaspoon of fennel seeds
a good dash of salt and pepper
(You can also add some hot pepper flakes if you like your sausages a little more spicy. I think I will do this next time!)
Mix all the ingredients together. Form the mixture into small patties, I like them about 2-3 inches in diameter.
pre-fried sausages
At this point, you can fry up some sausages and enjoy the yumminess that is pork. I wish I had a picture for you but we eat them so fast once they hit the plate. If you aren’t going to eat them right away, put them in a single layer in zip lock bags. Put one in the fridge and one in the freezer for later enjoyment.
