How to Make Turkey Sausage?

Answer 1

If you love breakfast, you're in good company. Although much of the fast food industry has been flat for the last few years, breakfast business is booming. It' pays to start your day with a good breakfast, too. That morning meal will leave you more awake and alert. Studies conducted to test the viability of school breakfast programs found that students who ate a good breakfast scored better on exams. A light meal may not make you an instant scholar, but it might make you more aware (and careful) during the morning commute.

One problem with breakfast is that it's full of high fat and high sugar foods. Whether you opt for bacon (or sausage) and eggs, or a cinnamon roll, you're in for a fat overload if you're not careful. You don't have to resort to cold cereal (sans sugar) to eat a healthy breakfast, though. You can prepare your own sausage using ground turkey. A breakfast turkey sausage patty is flavorful, low in fat and pretty filling, too. Turkey sausage is easy to make. You can even make a batch ahead and freeze it.

Turkey Breakfast Sausage Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground turkey, lean
• 1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp. onion powder
• 1/2 tsp. paprika
• 1/2 tsp. sage
• 1/4 tsp. thyme
• 1/4 tsp. allspice powder

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients, and stir to incorporate.
2. Cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
3. Place a length of parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
4. Remove mixture from the refrigerator and form into 2-1/2 inch wide (1/2 inch thick) patties. Place patties on the parchment as you form them. (Recipe should yield about 8 patties.)
5. Place cookie sheet in a preheated 350 degree F oven for 30 minutes. When cooked, the center of each patty should register at least 165 degrees F on an instant read thermometer.

Recipe serves 4.

Patties can be used as a substitute for pork based sausage in recipes as well as in sandwich style meals like sausage biscuits. Consume or freeze refrigerated patties within 3 days. This recipe can be doubled and even tripled.