Breakfast Sausage Patties {Homemade}

We used to go through a drive thru for breakfast muffins sometimes on the way to school. You know the one I mean, right? Now we (usually!) eat Clean this is the version of those breakfast sausage patties. They're full of flavor, juicy, and simple to make. If you need help getting the kids out of bed in the mornings, let a batch of these cooking waft through your home...works like magic!

Breakfast Sausage Patties

Who doesn't love sausages? Yet sausages are one of those hotly debated things around Clean eating and whether they can really be Clean at all. I'll tell you right now I'm not a strictly strict Clean eater.

I've had to ease my lot into eating good wholesome food slowly. And having a big family who were not raised from the word go as Clean eaters means taking it Very Slowly in some cases!

If I had adopted a strategy of strictness we'd have been a) miserable and b) it wouldn't have worked and we'd likely still be grabbing takeouts al l the time and driving through the nameless 'drive thru' buying breakfast sausage patties!

As it stands, we eat Clean most of the time. Nearly every meal I cook is Clean, but if the kids go to friends houses and parties etc...I'm not going to fuss over what they are and aren't eating.

If given a free reign the kids go for healthier choices now. Their palettes have changed for the better, finally!

I do buy sausages sometimes from my local butcher who makes some that are about as Clean as a sausage is going to get, and I usually make this sticky sausage supper here when I do get them!

Anyway, in my bid to replace said sausage patties I decided to make my own.

The 'old' ones, although I can't be 100% sure what's in them, are pretty much guaranteed to have a whole host of flavor enhancers and chemical preservatives: Mine Do Not!

Lovely local fresh pork minced by the butcher and ground in my food processor, is what I make mine with. These taste like a real junkie type treat, but there's not a nasty in sight! Yay :)

What Are Breakfast Sausage Patties Made Of?

I use 100% pork when I make these sausage breakfast patties and nothing less than 100% works for us.

I buy locally produced pork from happy piggies. It's a little more expensive than supermarket pork but I like to know where pork comes from as I'm a bit touchy about animal welfare issues!

Try and find pork that's not lean. Yep, not lean.

Animal Fat

Much of the meat in the supermarkets we buy today has had a lot of the fat stripped out of it because fat free is where our diets have beer steered now for many years.

The foods I give my family often have fat in them. And I don't worry. Two reasons: Fat is not damaging to us, it's the refined sugars that are harmful.

Taking fat out of a food most often means replacing the lost flavor with enhancers.

Why? That's reason number 2 - Fat is full of flavor! Yes, getting rid of the fat takes the moisture out of meat and leaves it dry and tasteless.

Grab the full fat version and enjoy some healthy, juicy breakfast sausage patties!

The only flavoring used in this recipe is some herbs and spice and a touch of salt and pepper. As a filler and to help the patties stick together I use wholemeal breadcrumbs and an egg. There's nothing in these you wouldn't recognise as food. Real food.

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How To Serve These Patties

Your sausage pattie is of course a flattened down sausage, but let's not underestimate the difference this makes to the kids, hey :) There's a huge difference here.....you could eat these any number of ways and they'd all be delicious.

The way the drive-thru serves these? We do that too! Wrap these in parchment paper to increase their 'take out' appeal. I know, I know...

To make these breakfast sausage muffins, when you've made your breakfast sausage patties follow this guide:

• Cut a wholegrain English muffin in two and lightly toast it
• Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan and heat it up on a medium heat
• Put an egg ring like this one in the pan and crack an egg into it and pop a sausage patty on the pan and leave it to cook without turning it over, this will be about 4-5 minutes. Then turn it over and cook on the other side until fully cooked
• Add the patty and the sausage to the muffin once the eggs cooked, add a slice of cheddar cheese and touch of tomato sauce and enjoy it. A lot!

Make Ahead

You can make these ahead of time and store them in the fridge for a day or two, covered. Just make the recipe up right to the end but don't cook them and then you'll have fresh breakfast sausage patties when you want them.

Freezing your sausage meat patties is easy if your pork is fresh.

Make the recipe up until the end but don't cook them and then put a square of parchment paper in-between each one, pop them into a Ziploc bag and freeze them.

They can sit in the freezer for up to a month.

How To Make Breakfast Sausage Patties

Ingredients

• 1 lb Pork Full fat, minced
• 2 slices Wholemeal bread
• 1 Large Egg
• 1 tsp Sage Dried
• 1 tsp Mace Ground
• ½ tsp Cilantro Dried
• ½ tsp Salt
• Pepper To season
• 2 tbsp Olive oil

Instructions

• Set up your food processor
• Put a plate on the side ready to put your patties onto
• Make the sausage meat pattie by taking the minced pork and all the other ingredients (except the olive oil) and processing until you have sausage meat rather than mince
• Now it's time to make the patties. I use a desert spoon and scoop out each patty, knead it into a ball and press down into a patty and put it onto the plate and repeat until all the sausage meat is patties
• Add the olive oil to a large pan and heat on a medium heat. You'll likely need to cook the patties in batches. Leave the patties to cook without pressing them down or turning them over for about 4-5 minutes.
• Next you want to press them down. This releases the fat. You want to keep the fat in the patties
• Turn them over and repeat on the other side until cooked through. Repeat and cook all batches of patties and serve!

Breakfast Sausage Patties Recipe