Italian sausage patties

Printable version My Mom has always been a big fan of patty melts and she is responsible for introducing me to these yummy delights. She has waited tables part-time for years and she has probably served about 37,000 of them. I was young when she introduced them to me and whenever I get hungry for one I think about being a kid at the local diner and Mom suggesting it for lunch to me for the first time. I think of patty melts as grilled cheese sandwiches with a meat patty tucked inside. I…

This homemade Italian sausage recipe is simple, authentic, and perfect for making sausage patties—or any recipes that call for bulk or ground Italian

These sausage patties are made with ground pork and seasoned simply with garlic, dried thyme, sage, and fennel. They're as quick and easy as they are delicious.

Leave store-bought sausage on the shelf and enjoy this Homemade Italian Sausage with just minutes of prep and simple ingredients.

Let's take the mystery out of how the sausage gets made. For an easy, all-purpose Italian sausage that's perfect in pasta sauce or on top of a pizza and that's full of pungency, spice, and personality, we started with coarsely ground pork. Using a stand mixer to combine the pork and seasonings (salt; toasted, crushed fennel seeds; sugar; black and red peppers; and garlic) helped extract more sticky proteins to bind the sausage.

Italian Sausage Sandwiches are delicious topped with pizza sauce and peppers. So easy whether you go with commercial sausages or homemade.

By making our own breakfast sausage, we could ensure great flavor and use high-quality ingredients. Premade frozen store-bought breakfast sausage patties commit a multitude of sins: too sweet or too salty, too bland or too highly seasoned, too greasy. Not to mention most varieties contain a number of additives, fillers, and preservatives. By making our own, we could ensure great flavor and use high-quality ingredients. We started by flavoring ground pork with classic breakfast sausage…

What could make a patty melt better than it already is, you ask? Why, swapping out the usual ground beef burger for an Italian sausage patty, of course. Make the burger big and cook plenty of onions. Nothing is better than a well-topped sandwich.

You can make your own Italian sausage meat at home, and use it in delicious pasta and soup recipes, or even make your own Italian sausage patties.

This classic patty melt on rye is hamburger patties, American cheese, and caramelized onions on rye bread. Surprisingly easy and quick.