Sausage and eggs can be quickly combined in a skillet to make a filling family breakfast. The burger fat used to cook the eggs will also flavor them. Depending on how many hungry mouths you need to feed, the recipe can be easily modified. Martha Stewart Living, October 2011.
Here is how to cook the perfect sausage patty:
First, slice you sausage and preheat your pan. Be sure to lightly grease your pan with some butter or oil of some sort.
Then, pour a 1/4 cup of water into the pan.
Cook the sausage patties on this side for about 6 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown.
If the water has completely evaporated, flip the patties over and add a little more.
Check that they have reached at least 160 degrees using a meat thermometer. That’s when you know pork is well-done.
But I did some reading and found this article about how it’s actually ok to cook pork until it reaches a medium temperature. Interesting, huh? I was definitely taught to cook pork until it was well done!
It is much better to use a meat thermometer than to cut into each individual patty to check for complete cooking. Because my digital meat thermometer broke, I did that for years. I finally broke down and purchased one at Kroger.
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Turn the heat up a little and sear it to your liking on both sides once the internal temperature is where you want it to be, but not for too long or you’ll end up with those hockey pucks.
This way of cooking sausage patties is SO much better. I’ve heard baking it is also a pretty good method of preparation.
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There are numerous healthy sausage meat recipes available if you want to make a healthier sausage. Making your own sausage patties from ground chicken or turkey is essential. You won’t be exposed to sodium nitrates and the meat will be healthier for you thanks to its lower fat content.
Even with healthy sausage meat recipes that are based on chicken or turkey, that is still a lot of salt and fat when you consider that many serving sizes call for two or three patties.
Although the food industry would like you to think that eating chicken sausage breakfast patties is a healthier alternative to frying sausage meat traditionally, the truth is that it isn’t all that much better for you. Although it has fewer calories and fat, it still has a high sodium content.
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, beef and pork should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicken and turkey should be cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
And finally, heres what the USDA FoodData Central says about the same size patty made with beef:
To adjust the recipe size:
In this recipe card’s servings section, you can change the number of servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.