Homemade Turkey Sausage Patties

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Easy homemade healthy turkey sausage patties for the home cook! This quick and simple recipe makes the perfect diner breakfast sausages for health conscious families.

Sausages are one of my favorite breakfast meals. And not those long Jimmy Dean Brown’n’Serve sausage links. Not the ones that come in weird casings either.

I’m talking sausage patties.

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These glorious flat things full of so much flavor and salty goodness. There’s just something better about cutting into a flat sausage patty with a plate of steaming hot scrambled eggs and a glass of cold orange juice.

It brings back all the memories of early dingy breakfast diners before college finals. What’s not to love.

Looking for other breakfast dishes? Try these one-pan Classic Tex-Mex Migas!

But most of those sausages are made with pork and make me physically sick. I’ll eat them joyfully. But then I spend the rest of the day collapsed on the floor regretting my choices.

Naturally, instead of just giving up sausages like a normal person, I decided to try to recreate those delicious porky patties on my own. With…turkey.

TL;DR:

• Combine ground turkey, salt, pepper, sage, cloves, red pepper flakes, almond flour, and maple syrup in a bowl.
• Mix with your hands.
• Shape into patties. (Leave a dent in the top of each patty!)
• Heat olive oil. Cook sausages 4 to a pan.
• Eat them. All of them. With no guilt!

How to Make Turkey Sausage Patties

The best part about this recipe is that it’s so easy! There’s nothing fancy or complicated involved. You don’t even need to chop anything. Just pour the ingredients in a bowl and smooth them together.

Then shape them into patties of course. And cook them!

But I’ll answer a few questions about this recipe anyway.

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What meats can I use other than turkey?

Any meat you choose! My personal favorites are beef and turkey.

Beef has a higher fat content so these will be juicier patties. You might want to cut down the syrup a bit.

Turkey is a bit healthier but tends to be a drier meat. My grocery story only had ground breast meat the day I made these sausages, which is why they are so light in color. In general you’ll want to find darker ground turkey meat for more flavor!

Pork is absolutely delicious but it makes me sick. (If you’re using it, think of it like beef above.)

Chicken will be the driest meat of them all, so I tend to avoid it in these patties.

Why almond flour?

You add flour to sausage patties to bind the burger together. (It’s the same role eggs and breadcrumbs play in meatloaf.) Turkey is especially susceptible to falling apart in the pan. Adding a bit of flour binds the dough together.

I choose almond flour to keep things a little healthier. It’s full of fiber and vitamins. And it lacks gluten which, while delicious, seems to be not so great for us humans.

Coconut flour will make the patties too dry. Turkey meat is already drier and less fatty than beef or pork. And coconut flour is very absorbent. You don’t want what little fat is in the meat absorbed by the flour!

Why do you add a dent in the top of the patties?

To stop them from poofing up! Meat swells as it cooks because it shrinks. (How’s that for a confusing statement.) As the meat shrinks and the moisture releases, patties like burgers and sausages will pull closer together. This is why your burgers and sausages swell in the middle and the shrinking meat moves towards the center. If you add a dent, dimple, or thumbprint in the middle, the meat will cook more evenly. So you’ll end up with a flat patty!

How to store or reheat Homemade Turkey Sausage Patties?

You can store mixed, shaped uncooked sausage patties in an airtight container for about 2 days. You can freeze these, separated with freezer paper and wrapped in plastic, for up to 6 months.

If you’ve cooked the sausages, they can be stored in an airtight tupperware for 7 days. You can also freeze them, as above, for 6 months.

To reheat these little sausages, simply place them in a covered frying pan on medium-low heat for 7 minutes. Then remove the cover and cook for an additional 3 minutes. Alternatively, wrap them in tin foil and place them in a 350°F oven for 15 minutes.

To cook the frozen homemade patties, simply place them, frozen, into a frying pan with a bit of water. Cover and cook over medium low heat until defrosted. Then remove the cover and brown as usual.

What to serve with Homemade Turkey Sausage Patties?

Um, scrambled eggs, obviously. And a big stack of those fluffy buttermilk pancakes. Or a belgian waffle. But seriously any breakfast food will do, really. I enjoy this Springtime Mushroom and Leek Quiche as an option. And in the winter a slice of this Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake with a pat of butter is absolutely divine!