Add grated carrot and onion, plus plenty of seasoning, to any ground meat for a nourishing, clean breakfast sausage patty the whole family will enjoy. GAPS compliant, grain and gluten free, allergy friendly, and adaptable to your taste!
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Breakfast sausage can be a wonderful source of flavorful protein at breakfast! Store bought sausage options are not so wonderful. Most have undesirable and often unrecognizable ingredients. The few, better options are expensive! However, you can have your sausage and eat it, too, by making a simple and nourishing Carrot Breakfast Sausage.
In my quest for a clean yet affordable breakfast sausage, I learned a few things about making it taste good. First, you need a lot of flavor. Most sausage recipes I found needed more spices.
Second, you need to add moisture. Dry sausage isn’t good, even if the flavor is great. This is especially true if you use chicken or turkey, two very affordable meats. Grated fruit or vegetable adds moisture quite nicely.
Third, you need good fat to cook it in. I like butter, tallow, or bacon fat, but other fats also work well. Do these things, and you breakfast sausage patties will be flavorful and juicy!
This recipe came about one dark morning recently when I needed to go to the grocery store. The pantry was a trifle bare and the refrigerator not well stocked. I had 6 pounds of ground chicken, but no zucchini for Turkey Breakfast Sausage and no apple for Chicken Apple Breakfast Sausage!
Poking around, I appropriated half an onion and a couple of limp carrots. If necessity is the mother of invention, maybe an under stocked kitchen is invention’s doting aunt. Despite my skepticism around adding carrots to sausage, these turned out well enough to become my second favorite breakfast sausage recipe. I hope you enjoy them as well!
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What to Do
Grate your carrots and onion using a box grater or a food processor.
Mix your seasonings and grated vegetables into the ground meat.
Heat a skillet thoroughly, add your choice of fat, and fry your patties.
Simple and Nourishing Carrot Breakfast Sausage
Ingredients
- 6 lb. ground chicken
- 1 C grated carrot
- 1/2 C onion
- 2 T good salt
- 1 T smoked paprika (use regular paprika for GAPS)
- 1 T dried sage
- 1 T toasted fennel seeds
- 1 T onion powder
- 1 T garlic powder
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp black pepper
- preferred fat for frying
Instructions
- Grate carrots and onion.
- (Optionally, toast the fennel seeds in a skillet over medium heat for a few minutes to bring out the flavor.)
- Mix ground chicken, carrots and onion, and all seasonings together in a large bowl.
- Heat skillet well, add fat, and heat until the fat bubbles. Form patties and cook, turning after the bottoms have browned. (You can cover them with a lid to speed up the cooking, but they will not brown much. Leave the lid off if you want them to turn brown and caramelize a bit.)
- Remove to a plate and either continue cooking more patties or refrigerate or freeze the remaining mixture.
Make Simple and Nourishing Breakfast Sausage Your Way
- Use whatever ground meat you. I like chicken, my family is equally happy with turkey, and sometimes I spring for pork. Others will work just fine, so use what you like!
- Tweak the seasonings as you like. If you prefer not to use garlic or onion powder, leave them out and stick with fresh onion and garlic. Increase or reduce any other seasonings according to your preferences or what you have on hand. This is a flexible recipe.
- If you aren’t sure you have enough seasoning, you can quickly cook a tiny patty (the size of a quarter, maybe), taste it, and add more spices as you see fit. Please don’t taste the raw mixture!
- Do what fits your diet regarding the fat, so long as you use enough and have it nice and hot before you add the meat. Grass fed butter is great, and high quality lard or tallow are good. The gold standard would be bacon fat from high quality bacon! Coconut oil would also work nicely.
