With just a few ingredients to keep on hand you can have these sauteed or use the sausage mixture in even as a filling or topping for pizza.
The sausage alone is amazing in flavor but we have many topping suggestions for you to try to make a new yummy sausage slider every time you serve them below.
Add the desired amount of heat with red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper additions or leave it plain and for those who love a little heat saute some HOT PEPPERS!!
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Ground Pork Italian Homemade Italian Sausage Recipe Steps
- Mix the sausage, fennel seeds, white wine or red, add fresh herbs, grated cheese, seasonings
- Shape into patties
- Fry in olive oil
- Serve as is or topped with our many suggestions below!
- For the homemade sausage recipe, scroll down to our recipe card and hit print (ads will disappear)
Tips for Making Homemade Italian Sausage in Recipes
- use as a filling for stuffed pizza dough
- just saute it for fillings or added to a recipe that calls for loose sausage
- bake it in the oven with potatoes, onions, peppers
- add to a pot of tomato sauce (as a sausage bolognese) with peppers, and mushrooms (as shown in the photo below) then pour this over rice, potatoes, pasta or whatever you prefer even hard-crusted bread
- top pizza with cooked sausage
- saute the ground sausage meat as a substitute for ground beef in soups, sloppy joe
- make it into shaped logs and add to a tomato sauce with meatballs
- bake the patties instead of frying
- this freeze perfectly cooked for quick meals
- add to a baked submarine sandwich and hoagies
- Cooking Methods: grill, pan fry, air fry, and bake are all cooking methods you can use, and for sauces use the loose sausage in a tomato sauce
Sausage Sandwich Toppings Using Homemade Sausage
- sauteed peppers
- roasted peppers
- caramelized onions
- sauteed mushrooms
- marinara tomato sauce, fried peppers, sauteed mushrooms, caramelized onions
- mozzarella melted or provolone and tomato sauce
- any melted cheese you prefer
- sliced olives
- caponata
- hot peppers sauteed in oil
- lettuce, tomato with vinegar and oil salad dressing
- hash browns cooked to a crispy golden brown
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Sausage in Cabernet Sauce
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Mom's East End Sausage Pasta
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Homemade Italian Sausage Recipe Ideas
Homemade Italian sausage made with ground pork is used in so many recipes including sandwiches, sauces, and much more!
Ingredients
- 2 pounds of ground pork
- 1/4 cup of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fennel seeds
- 3 tablespoons paprika
- 1/4 cup white or red dry wine
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic or use 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
- 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese for cheese-flavored sausage or 3 tablespoons of mixed Italian herb seasoning for herb-flavored sausage
- Note: you can add both the cheese and herbs
- salt and pepper to taste (around 1 teaspoon of each)
- Note: for a little heat add 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper or 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes or add more for a hotter sausage flavor
Instructions
- Mix everything into a bowl until evenly blended.
- Shape it into patties, and logs or leave it loose for whatever recipe it's needed for.
- pan fry: saute loose meat or shape it into patties, sausage should be cooked to internal temperature showing 160 on an instant-read thermometer or all cooking methods
- bake: preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- air-fry: air fry patties for around 5 minutes on each side or until it reaches 160 degrees internal temperature.
- use in a slow cooker.: sausage should be sauteed first and then drained before adding to the tomato sauce
- Use in sauces, make patties for sandwiches, see suggestion below.
- Saute the meat or pizza topping or fillings for stuffing pizza dough.
Notes
Tips for Making Homemade Sausage in Recipes
- use as a filling for stuffed pizza dough
- just saute it for fillings or added to a recipe that calls for loose sausage
- bake it in the oven with potatoes, onions, peppers
- add to a pot of tomato sauce (as a sausage bolognese) with peppers, and mushrooms (as shown in the photo below) then pour this over rice, potatoes, pasta or whatever you prefer even hard-crusted bread
- top pizza with cooked sausage
- saute the ground sausage meat as a substitute for ground beef in soups, sloppy joe
- make it into shaped logs and add to a tomato sauce with meatballs
- bake the patties instead of frying
- this freeze perfectly cooked for quick meals
- add to a baked submarine sandwich and hoagies
- Cooking Methods: grill, pan fry, air fry, and bake are all cooking methods you can use, and for sauces use the loose sausage in a tomato sauce
Sausage Sandwich Toppings
- sauteed peppers
- roasted peppers
- caramelized onions
- sauteed mushrooms
- marinara tomato sauce, fried peppers, sauteed mushrooms, caramelized onions
- mozzarella melted or provolone and tomato sauce
- any melted cheese you prefer
- sliced olives
- caponata
- hot peppers sauteed in oil
- lettuce, tomato with vinegar and oil salad dressing
- hash browns cooked to a crispy golden brown
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