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Mix up a jar of this breakfast sausage seasoning to keep in your pantry and homemade breakfast sausage patties can be yours any day of the week. Just add two tablespoons of this spice mix to a pound of your preferred ground meat or vegan ground meat substitute.
I've been making my own homemade breakfast sausage patties and turkey sausage patties for several years now. It includes a simple mix of spices that turns a pound of ground meat into a delicious breakfast staple.
Recently, I was teaching a virtual cooking class and asked the participants if they'd like to have a spice blend recipe to keep in the pantry vs. adding the individual spices each time and the answer was a resounding YES.
Homemade spice blends are such a convenient addition to your culinary repertoire. I hope this seasoning mix finds a place in your kitchen along with other favorites like my homemade taco seasoning, homemade grill seasoning, and homemade fajita seasoning.
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🧡 Why we love this recipe
- It uses pantry staples.
- This seasoning blend takes 9 ingredients and just minutes to make.
- Layering the spices into a jar makes it great for gifting!
- It's a great way to avoid buying premade breakfast sausages that have a lot of additives - you're just using meat with dried herbs and spices.
- You can tweak the ingredients and control the sodium level.
📝 Ingredients
Here's everything you need to make this breakfast sausage seasoning (see recipe card below for ingredient amounts and full directions):
- Dried marjoram
- Dried oregano
- Dried parsley
- Ground paprika
- Kosher salt - see my notes below.
- Garlic powder - this takes the place of using fresh garlic when making your breakfast sausage patties and is a fantastic substitute.
- Rubbed sage - you could swap this or split it with dried savory if you have that in your pantry.
- Red pepper flakes - feel free to add more if you like things extra spicy!
- Ground black pepper - use the pre-ground stuff here vs. freshly cracked.
🧂 A Note About Salt
This recipe uses kosher salt which can be found in your grocery store located in the baking aisle.
Prior to 2025, I used Morton coarse kosher salt in my cooking. I switched over to Diamond Crystal kosher salt after having size inconsistencies over multiple packages of Morton.
In the photo above, you'll see the size that this particular salt has always been (left), what seems to be the "new" size (center), and Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt, which is the other major brand that is used in most professional kitchens (right).
Why does salt crystal size matter? 🧂
When the crystal size is larger, salt doesn't dissolve as quickly as its smaller counterpart. This proved problematic when my husband made eggs for breakfast, and me and my son kept getting super salty bites. We realized it was because those larger salt crystals weren't dissolving or dispersing evenly.
You can also fit a larger quantity of salt in your measuring spoon when the grains are smaller. So you'll have a saltier ½ teaspoon of a finer-grained salt than a coarser one.
What this means is that you need to be aware that salt measurements can vary. If you follow a recipe and it's too salty using those measurements, it's possible that the recipe writer used a different size of salt than what you used.
There's no right or wrong brand to use, but be sure to get a hang of the characteristics of what you're using when you're cooking. Nobody wants to have overly salty food!
Because of the inconsistency in size, I'm switching to Diamond Crystal in my kitchen. It may take a little getting used to, but it's something that seems necessary to the consistency of my home cooking.
One further note - this article from Food 52 goes into more detail about the differences between these 2 brands of kosher salt (not the grain-size difference in one single that sparked my switch), and it's a great read!
✅ How to make this recipe
There's nothing really to making this recipe - just pop all of the ingredients into a bowl mix to combine. I like putting it in a jar with a lid and shaking it all together.
If you plan on giving this spice blend as a gift, I recommend layering the spices into a jar so it looks pretty.
You can label the jar with a label maker if you'd like. It'd be nice to also include a little card with instructions for use.
See recipe card below for full instructions.
📌 Tips
Make sure you mix the spices well when you go to make your breakfast sausages. Since some of the spices are lighter than others, you may get some separation as the jar sits.
I like to give the jar a quick shake before measuring out the mix when I'm making sausages.
When you've seasoned your ground meat (or vegan ground meat substitute), you can pinch off a small piece of the seasoned sausage mixture and fry it in a skillet until cooked.
Taste that "test sausage" to see if you're happy with the amount of seasoning in your meat mixture. Feel free to add more of the mix or additional salt or red pepper flakes if desired.
💡 Recipes using this breakfast sausage seasoning blend
These are my favorite recipes that utilize this spice mix. Note that if you're using the sausage spice blend, you can omit the individual seasonings and garlic cloves from the below recipes:
More recipes and ideas for using this breakfast sausage spice blend are coming soon!
🥡 Equipment and storage
Once your taco seasoning is mixed, you can pour it into your storage container(s) of choice.
You may need to use a small metal funnel to help guide some of the spices into the jars. I found it helpful for the more finely ground ingredients depending on the with of your jar's opening.
Store your homemade seasoning blend in an airtight container (like a tightly closed spice jar) in a cool, dry place.
When choosing a storage location for your spices, it's best to keep them away from heat sources. That's why storing them next to your oven isn't recommended.
It's preferable to keep them in a dark place, or at least away from direct sunlight, to retain maximum flavor.
This blend will keep for several months, stored properly in your pantry or cabinet.
🍽️ More DIY seasoning blends
Looking for other homemade seasoning blend recipes? Try these:
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Print📖 Recipe
Breakfast Sausage Seasoning
- Prep Time: 5 Minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: Makes 12 tablespoons 1x
- Category: Spice Blends
- Cuisine: American
Description
This DIY breakfast sausage seasoning recipe is the perfect spice blend to turn ground meat into homemade breakfast sausage patties.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons dried marjoram
- 2 tablespoons dried oregano
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley
- 1 ½ tablespoons ground paprika
- 1 ½ tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon rubbed sage
- 1 ½ teaspoons red pepper flakes
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground black pepper
Instructions
- Add dried marjoram, dried oregano, dried parsley, ground paprika, kosher salt, garlic powder, rubbed sage, red pepper flakes, and ground black pepper to a jar. Close the lid and shake well to combine. Alternately, you can stir or whisk everything together in a bowl and then transfer your storage container(s) of choice.
- Store in a sealed container in a cool, dry place away from heat.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tablespoon
- Calories: 9
- Sugar: 0.2 g
- Sodium: 466.9 mg
- Fat: 0.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 2 g
- Fiber: 0.9 g
- Protein: 0.4 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
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