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Pork breakfast sausage patties
Homemade breakfast sausage in about twenty minutes: lean ground pork worked with salt and pepper until it turns slightly sticky, then browned in a hot pan. Add sage for the classic diner flavour, or leave it out and let the pork speak for itself.
- Time
- 22 min (10 prep + 12 cook)
- Servings
- 4
- Per serving
- 227 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
Ingredients
- 1 lb pork mince, lean ground pork or pork mince
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp water, ice-cold
- 1 tsp dried sage (optional)
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder (optional)
- 2 tsp lard, 1 tsp cold in the mix, 1 tsp in the pan
Steps
- Put the pork in a bowl with the salt, pepper, ice-cold water and 1 teaspoon of the lard, cold, and the sage and garlic powder, if using. Mix with your hands for about a minute, until the mixture turns slightly sticky; that is what holds a sausage together.
- Divide into 8 portions and shape into flat patties about 1/2 inch thick. Press a shallow dimple into the center of each one so they stay flat as they cook.
- Heat the rest of the lard in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the patties 3–4 minutes a side, without pressing them, until browned and the center reads 160°F.
- Serve hot. Keeps 4 days in the fridge; reheat in a dry pan over medium-low heat for about 2 minutes a side. Freezes 3 months, raw or cooked, with parchment between the patties.
Good to know
Can I use regular ground pork?
Yes, and it needs no lard at all. The patties are richer, at about 46 instead of 54.
Per
- Calories
- 237
- Protein
- (42%)
- 25 g
- Fat
- (58%)
- 15 g
- Carbohydrates
- (1%)
- 1 g
- of which sugar
- <1 g
- Fiber
- <1 g
- Sodium
- 666 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 907 kcal goes into the pot and 485 g of ingredients comes out as about 382 g of food: 237 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.