Right here’s a better-tasting breakfast sausage from scratch – with mushrooms! No longer best do those savory sausages style greater, however they’re richer in vitamin.

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Now…onto these days’s featured Wholesome Kitchen Hack:

“They’re truly, truly excellent.”

That’s what my 10-year outdated mentioned after I requested her what I will have to write about those Mushroom Breakfast Sausages. She’s a woman of few phrases.

Beef sausage was once no longer one thing that steadily made it onto this dietitian’s menu. (However, bacon? That’s some other tale altogether. See >> Maple Baron Verulam Scones and Butternut Squash and Baron Verulam One-Pot Pasta.)

Then, a farmer good friend gave us a few of his farm-raised flooring beef. I had some mushrooms within the refrigerator – and those breakfast sausages had been born.

Now now we have those breakfast sausages steadily. And no longer only for breakfast.

The Mushroom people name this #HealthyKitchenHack of changing one of the vital meat with mushrooms, The Mix. Right here’s the components I exploit:

>> Upload an 8-ounce bundle of mushrooms to every 1-pound of meat

Listed below are a couple of different pointers I exploit for mushroom ‘Mix-ing’:

• Mince finely with a knife. Or pulse mushrooms a couple of occasions on your meals processor.
• Saute 8-ounces of mushrooms in 1 tablespoon oil – or no longer. OR, for a shortcut, simply upload uncooked chopped mushrooms – you’ll get somewhat much less mushroom-y taste. However you’ll nonetheless get all the vitamin and moisture within the meat patties. (And a few children like ‘much less mushroom.’)
• Mushrooms act as a binder, so no different binders are wanted in meat patties. No breadcrumbs. No eggs. #easypeasy
• Use spices:
  • For beef, pass Italian: fennel, oregano, garlic powder, black pepper
  • For pork, pass highly spiced: cumin, smoked paprika, crimson pepper flakes

Mushroom upload the goodness of veggies to meat:

• Decrease fats – Mushrooms change one of the vital saturated fats in meat via lowering the quantity of meat in 1 patty (see underneath.) However meat tastes simply as ‘meaty,’ as a result of mushrooms take in flavorful meat juices.
• Extra in your cash – Most often a pound of meat yields 4 burgers, via including (reasonably priced) white mushrooms, you get no less than 6-7 large meaty burgers.
• Higher vitamins – Mushrooms include potassium, selenium, diet D, and fiber, amongst different vitamins.

Plus, IMO, Mushroom Breakfast Sausage Patties style waaaay greater than simple sausage patties.  Higher-Tasting Breakfast Sausage (with Mushrooms!) #HealthyKitchenHack by means of @TspCurry Click on To Tweet

EQUIPMENT: My favourite pan to saute mushrooms: All-Clad Saute Pan [affiliate link]

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How do you love to consume mushrooms? Do you ever ‘Mix’ mushrooms into meat?