Higher-Tasting Breakfast Sausage (with Mushrooms!) – Teaspoon of Spice

Right here’s a better-tasting breakfast sausage from scratch – with mushrooms! Not solely do these savory sausages style higher, however they’re richer in vitamin.

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Now…onto at this time’s featured Wholesome Kitchen Hack:

“They’re actually, actually good.”

That’s what my 10-year previous mentioned after I requested her what I ought to write about these Mushroom Breakfast Sausages. She’s a lady of few phrases.

Pork sausage was not one thing that always made it onto this dietitian’s menu. (However, bacon? That’s one other story altogether. See >> Maple Bacon Scones and Butternut Squash and Bacon One-Pot Pasta.)

Then, a farmer buddy gave us a few of his farm-raised floor pork. I had some mushrooms within the fridge – and these breakfast sausages had been born.

Now we have now these breakfast sausages typically. And never only for breakfast.

The Mushroom people name this #HealthyKitchenHack of changing among the meat with mushrooms, The Mix. Right here’s the components I exploit:

>> Add an 8-ounce package deal of mushrooms to every 1-pound of meat

Listed below are just a few different suggestions I exploit for mushroom ‘Mix-ing’:

• Mince finely with a knife. Or pulse mushrooms just a few occasions in your meals processor.
• Saute 8-ounces of mushrooms in 1 tablespoon oil – or not. OR, for a shortcut, simply add uncooked chopped mushrooms – you’ll get a bit much less mushroom-y taste. However you’ll nonetheless get all the vitamin and moisture within the meat patties. (And a few youngsters like ‘much less mushroom.’)
• Mushrooms act as a binder, so no different binders are wanted in meat patties. No breadcrumbs. No eggs. #easypeasy
• Use spices:
  • For pork, go Italian: fennel, oregano, garlic powder, black pepper
  • For beef, go spicy: cumin, smoked paprika, purple pepper flakes

Mushroom add the goodness of veggies to meat:

• Decrease fats – Mushrooms exchange among the saturated fats in meat by reducing the quantity of meat in 1 patty (see under.) However meat tastes simply as ‘meaty,’ as a result of mushrooms take in flavorful meat juices.
• Extra in your cash – Usually a pound of meat yields 4 burgers, by including (cheap) white mushrooms, you get not less than 6-7 large meaty burgers.
• Elevated vitamins – Mushrooms include potassium, selenium, vitamin D, and fiber, amongst different vitamins.

Plus, IMO, Mushroom Breakfast Sausage Patties style waaaay higher than plain sausage patties.  Higher-Tasting Breakfast Sausage (with Mushrooms!) #HealthyKitchenHack by way of @TspCurry Click on To Tweet

EQUIPMENT: My favourite pan to saute mushrooms: All-Clad Saute Pan [affiliate link]

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How do you wish to eat mushrooms? Do you ever ‘Mix’ mushrooms into meat?