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Homemade Sausage Seasoning Blend
"A dry herb blend for giving any ground meat a "sausage" flavoring. Try this not only with ground pork, but also ground turkey, beef, or chicken. Adapted from a recipe that came with one of my pizza pans. Recipe can be doubled, tripled, etc as needed. Each batch is enough to season 1 pound of meat. Leave out the crushed red pepper flakes for milder sausage."
photo by HeatherFeather
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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3 Tbsp
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 3 1⁄2 teaspoons paprika
- 2⁄3 teaspoon garlic granules or 2/3 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1⁄3 teaspoon fennel seed
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, for spicy (optional)
directions
- Blend all ingredients together in a spice grinder or mini-food processor (or you may also just stir together if you like some chunkier bits of fennel in your sausage).
- Store in an airtight container until ready to use.
- To use, mix with 1 pound ground meat.
- Chill seasoned meat 3 hours before using.
- Or you may also use this in any recipe calling for sausage seasoning.
Questions & Replies
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Is it OK to put sage and sausage -
I like the simplicity of the recipe. fennel and fresh ground black pepper match perfectly
Reviews
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I just made this, recently we have become mostly vegetarian and I have been searching for a veggie sausage recipe with the right amount of spice. None seemed to have the depth of flavor I've been looking for, so I decided to search out sausage seasoning mixes. This is perfect, I made one addition-sage, because I wanted a more breakfast-y sausage mixture. Excellent! -
Worked excellent!! I did modify this recipe as follows: I substituted onion powder for salt with excellent results. I believe dehydrated onion could also be used. Due to low sodium/salt free diet. -
I used this recipe yesterday with ground pork. I let sit in the fridge for a couple of hours before cooking to let the spices get into the meat well. The spice mix is fantastic! Nice flavors. I think you could easily omit the fennel and use sage, savory, rosemary, or mace to replace it for breakfast sausage. A keeper blend! Hubby liked too. I can't wait to use it on a pizza!! -
So... I needed some Italian sausage to make #195763, but I did not have any. Food.com to the rescue, as it has so many times before.<br/>This blend was absolutely perfect for my needs, and by the time the soup was finished, you literally could not tell that I had used ground beef instead of Italian sausage.<br/>Thank you for posting this. I will most definitely be using it again. -
Awful blend where the paprika and pepper overtakes the palate. A first-time only recipe and not one that I'll repeat.
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Tweaks
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For those on low sodium/salt free diets: I substituted onion powder for salt with excellent results. I believe dehydrated onion could also be used.
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Unless I used the wrong size measuring spoon, which I don't think I did, this was way too salty for me. I would reduce the salt to 1/2 tsp. -
So... I needed some Italian sausage to make #195763, but I did not have any. Food.com to the rescue, as it has so many times before.<br/>This blend was absolutely perfect for my needs, and by the time the soup was finished, you literally could not tell that I had used ground beef instead of Italian sausage.<br/>Thank you for posting this. I will most definitely be using it again.
