Sunny's Sweet and Spicy Breakfast Sausage

By Addie

Many times when I make anything with ground beef, I save a little snatch of it to the side and season it up for a few breakfast sausage patties the next day. It's easy, the ingredients are in my spice rack always, so I'm hoping your rack is stacked like mine :-). I season my sausage sweet because I love to put syrup on spicy sausage, so why not build in some of the sweetness?! Hope you enjoy!

Recipe courtesy Sunny Anderson
Show: Cooking for Real
Episode: T.G.I.S

Ingredients

• 4 teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed, crushed with a knife or mortar and pestle
• 1/4 teaspoon Hungarian paprika
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 pound ground chuck
• 1 teaspoon olive oil

Preparation

Step 1

In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, fennel seed, paprika, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.

Break the beef into chunks and add to a large bowl. Sprinkle the seasoning evenly over the top then with your hand gently mix the beef until the seasoning is evenly distributed. Divide the mixture into 8 even portions and roll gently into balls. Place back in the bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Remove the sausage from the refrigerator and one by one place each ball between 2 sheets of parchment paper. Using a meat pounder, flatten out the sausage balls into 1/8-inch thick patties.

In a large saute pan or griddle over medium-high heat, add the olive oil and cook the sausage patties in batches. Sear on one side until caramelized and golden on the bottom, about 2 minutes, then flip to cook just a minute more on the other side.
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REVIEWS:

Very good taste, but my family prefers a more savory than sweet recipe. I left out the brown sugar and they loved it!

It was very bland and it was just missing something. We had to throw them away because I couldn't eat more than one and my husband got sick from his first bite. Sorry.

This is my favorite breakfast sausage! It tastes great dipped in maple syrup; hot and sweet.

Everyone loved the sausages! I made a couple of changes. I added fresh sage and after reading the previous reviews about the sausage being sweet added one finely chopped jalepeno pepper. Left the seasoned meat in fridge over night. Great Recipe!!! Will make my own breakfast sausage from now on. Next time will try with ground chicken. Thanks Sunny

Yummmm! This was terrific. I always thought making my own sausage would be way too much work, but this was easy and delicious. I admit we used ground pork instead of chuck, but except for the difference in taste of the meats, I can't imagine that this would be superior to the original recipe. This was great and we'll try it using ground chuck next time.

Sweet but good...

Tasty, but a bit too sweet for me. Next time I'll use 1/2 as much brown sugar.

I never thought to use chuck for making a tasty sausage. I had some sirloin patty's and used them. My mixture is resting in frige now and I can tell by the way it smells it's going to be fantastic.