Sausage Recipes

Find the best sausage recipe for your restaurant or other food business

By Kristina Seleshanko
Sausage is a favorite food among Americans, and a good sausage recipe is sure to catch your customers' attention. We tend to think of sausage as a breakfast meat, but, in fact, sausage is great at any meal. You can make sausage from virtually any meat, including pork, beef, chicken, duck and more exotic offerings like ostrich. You can purchase sausage either fresh (like uncooked sausage patties) or ready-to-eat (like reheatable links). Sausage can also be healthy. Depending upon what it's made from, sausage is low carb, high in protein, and may be low in fat and cholesterol.

When seeking sausage recipes and sausage recipe tips, look beyond what your customers are probably already familiar with. Seek to incorporate sausage in lunch and dinner dishes, and don't be afraid to try something exotic. When researching sausage recipes, try the following:

1. Seek an online sausage recipe that appeals to you.

2. Buy a sausage recipe book written by an established cookbook author.

3. Test several sausage recipes and sausage recipe ingredients in your kitchen, choosing only the very best concoctions for your customers.

 

Select an online sausage recipe

Recipes found online have the advantage of being free, and often they are reviewed by fellow cooks (although most are amateur). Although it makes sense to look for a sausage recipe at a well-established recipe website, don't neglect smaller websites, which often have a wealth of great information.
Try: SausageMania offers free recipes that you can download or print from their site, including Cajun chaurice, Alsatian Christmas sausage and sweet Italian sausage with wild fennel. For more great sausage recipes, check out 3 Men, which has recipes for andouille, boerewors and farm-style droewors.

Find a sausage recipe card for alternative sausages

Look beyond the typical beef and pork sausage. Today, you can make or purchase sausage from nearly any type of meat, poultry or fish, including up-and-coming favorites like health-rich ostrich.
Try: Free-Venison-Recipes.com offers many free venison recipes, including those for summer sausage and other deer sausages. Clay's Kitchen has a wide variety of sausage recipes, including those with alligator, chicken, fish, duck and ostrich meat.

Make use of a sausage recipe book

A good sausage recipe book is a must if you have serious interest in cooking sausage for your customers. Not only will a cookbook offer tested recipes, but it should offer excellent general cooking tips that can help make sausage easy to prepare and delicious to eat.
Try: AllysonsKitchen.com sells "Bruce Aidells' Complete Sausage Book," the bible of sausage making and cooking. What on Earth offers "Johnsonville Big Taste of Sausage Cookbook," with recipes and tips from the number one sausage maker in America.

 

  • When using sausage and sausage recipe ingredients, keep freshness in mind. Uncooked, fresh sausage lasts about one to two days in the refrigerator if left in its package. Packaged, ready-to-eat sausage is good for up to two weeks.