It’s a delicious sausage, and I know every ingredient! To add a little spice or to enjoy on its own, add to pretty much anything to which you would add meat.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 20 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon crumbled dried sage
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 pinch ground ginger
- 1 pound ground turkey
Instructions
- Stir salt, sage, black pepper, nutmeg, red pepper flakes, and ginger in a small bowl. Place turkey into a separate bowl and thoroughly mix in the spices. Form sausage into patties.
- Fry the sausage patties in a skillet over medium heat until browned and the meat is no longer pink inside, 3 to 5 minutes per side.
- For dinner sausage or hot sausage, add 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed and more crushed red pepper. If desired, substitute ground pork for turkey and add 2 tablespoons water to the meat.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 170 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 1 g |
| Cholesterol | 84 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 23 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 646 mg |
| Sugars | 0 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Made some adjustments to spices as we like it hotter and spicier. Lowered salt to 3/4 teaspoon increased red pepper flakes to 3/4 teaspoon, 2 pinches of ginger, 1 1/2 teaspoons of black pepper, 1 1/2 teaspoons of sage and added 1/2 teaspoon of ground fennel seeds. The base recipe gave me all the right spices to make delicious turkey sausage!
This turned out wonderful. Had some Italian sausage and used this recipe to change it up. Looking forward to make it with ground turkey or chicken.
This recipe turned out very well. It was better after the seasonings were able to incorporate with time.
Too mild for my wife & me. I broke my own rule by not making and tasting one patty first to see if the recipe needed adjusting. Had I done that I would have added more of everything.
My family loves this a little too much salt for me so I’ll put less next time other than the salt it was better than store bought
Good! I added fennel seeds.
Thank you for sharing this recipe! We love these. I use pork and add the water mentioned in the notes. I use a 1/4 tsp of red pepper flakes. This is much better than the premade store bought breakfast sausage.
I just used pork and upped the sage for a “Sage sausage” for stuffing for Thanksgiving. But this is a fine base recipe for homemade sausage.
Delicious and easy. I made these into sausage patties an also used it in a meatloaf… both ways really good. Will make again
I made evaporated milk gravy with it! I used refined coconut oil mixed in the ground turkey with the spice. so I would have some yummy fat to add to the gravy!
I did try this recipe. It was easy and quick! I did tweek it a bit by adding in some coriander, dry mustard, cayenne and liquid smoke. I refrigerated the meat for 30 minutes before shaping the patties. Last but not least, I baked them on parchment for 15 – 20 minutes, flipping them after 10. Be careful not to overcook them. Turkey dries out fast. They were awesome. Thank you for a great recipe.
Amazing! This is exactly what I was looking for to convert turkey patties mistakenly bought into turkey sausages. I was skeptical, but the patties came out tasting exactly like sausage, even though I didn’t quite have all the ingredients (ground sage instead of crushed, coriander instead of nutmeg). I will probably never buy turkey sausage again, because this is so fresh and delicious — and easy.
very tasty, everyone enjoyed the sausages stuck to the recipe did not change anything.