Best Turkey Sausage

Total Time:Prep: 5 min. + chilling Cook: 15 min.

Recipe by Kim Cook, Dade City, Florida

Tested by Taste of Home Test Kitchen

Updated on Jun. 27, 2023

"I've had to cut the salt in my diet but love my family's recipe for homemade sausage," says Kim Cook of Dade City, Florida. "When I heat up these turkey sausage patties at work everyone smells their wonderful aroma and begs for a taste."

Butter Sprinkles

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Best Turkey Sausage

Yield:8 patties
Prep:5 min
Cook:15 min

Ingredients

  • 1 pound lean ground turkey
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 5 teaspoons butter-flavored sprinkles
  • 1/2 teaspoon each dried thyme, basil and rubbed sage
  • 1/4 teaspoon each dried marjoram, oregano, cayenne pepper and ground cumin
  • 1/8 teaspoon each garlic powder, pepper, ground ginger and nutmeg
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Directions

  1. Crumble turkey into a bowl. Add the remaining ingredients; mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Shape into eight patties. In a nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, cook patties over medium heat until no longer pink and a thermometer reads 160°.