Homemade Breakfast Sausage Seasoning

This breakfast sausage seasoning is perfect for making chicken or turkey breakfast sausage patties, healthy chicken sausage gravy, venison sausage, or the classic pork sausage patties! It’s a peppery, smoky, and slightly sweet blend of 7 ingredients you probably already have in your spice cabinet. Are you ready to spice things up?

How to Make Breakfast Sausage Seasoning

Ingredients you’ll need: 

• brown sugar
• black pepper
• smoked paprika
• red pepper flakes
• kosher salt
• rubbed sage
• allspice

You’ll notice in the photo above that I use Swerve Brown, which is a zero calorie sugar substitute that tastes and caramelizes just like sugar. This ingredient is great, and I’ve used it in other savory recipes like Nashville Hot air fryer chicken nuggets and my Ninja Foodi bbq pulled pork. All that said, plain ol’ brown sugar works perfectly fine. 

Nutrition Note: Using Swerve Brown saves you a little over 100 calories per serving. 

As far as the other ingredients go, you can probably take a little artistic liberty with your own breakfast sausage seasoning. If you like extra spicy sausage, you could add more red pepper flakes or a couple pinches of cayenne pepper. Or if you’re a salt fanatic, you may decide to add a bit more to your mix. 

Something else to keep in mind is that you can always add ingredients as you use this seasoning. The recipe makes 6 servings. If you try one and decide you wanted a bit more salt, you could just add it as you make your breakfast sausage next go around. Or you could add it straight to the mix and adjust in your next batch. 

Using Your Homemade Breakfast Sausage Seasoning

Like I mentioned in the intro, my favorite use for this seasoning is making chicken sausage with ground chicken. For the sausage patties, I massage the seasoning into the ground chicken and make 10 patties out of a pound of ground chicken. Pan fry in a tablespoon of olive oil and you’ve got perfect breakfast sausage that’s low fat and low calorie. This method would work for any ground meat. 

An even easier cooking method is to use the seasoning to make breakfast sausage crumbles. For this method, you’ll basically use your breakfast sausage seasoning like taco seasoning. Cook ground chicken, turkey, pork, or your choice of meat in a skillet and add the seasoning towards the end of cooking. That’s it. Add a little butter, flour, milk, and white pepper and you’ve got sausage gravy on your hands! 

Two more example recipes: chicken sausage breakfast casserole and chicken sausage cheese balls

Okay, that should cover it. You’ll find the printable recipe card below. Don’t forget to pin this recipe to Pinterest for later!