Faux Pork Sausage: Swap In Reliable Ground Beef
Create a high-protein, low-fat sausage alternative with ground beef and spices. Enjoy the rich flavor of traditional sausage with around 75% less fat—perfect for breakfast or meal prep. Prep and freeze for easy, healthy meals anytime.
I love having sausage in my breakfast foods, the issue with sausage is that it tends to be very high in fat and harder to control macros on when aiming to focus on a high protein intake.
To help get a similar taste but use a much lower fat ground beef you can use the following spices and allow some time to rest to get that same type of taste but with 75% less fat then most pork sausage.
I would recommend you create this early and allow to come together and then freeze what you won't use, I tend to make 2 or 3 lbs at the same time now and save the rest to use as needed.
- Prep Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 1 pound of sausage
Macros
Four servings per pound of ground beef is how I measure for other recipes.
Per pound of ground beef
Calories: 626
- Carbs: 5.6g
- Fat: 18.2g
- Protein: 101.4g
Per serving of ground beef
Calories: 156.6
- Carbs: 1.4g
- Fat: 4.5g
- Protein: 25.3g
Ingredients
- 1 pound 96/4 ground beef
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 1 teaspoon rubbed sage
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (To taste some may go up to 1 tsp)
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper (To taste some may go up to 1 tsp)
Instructions
- Add all of your dry ingredients to a small prep bowl and give them a quick stir.
- Grab a mixing bowl and add your ground beef into it.
- Sprinkle the dry sausage ingredients over the ground beef.
- Mix the ground beef and the dry ingredients.
- Use your hands. Don’t be afraid to really get in there and get your hands meaty. Mix it up until your ground beef and spices are thoroughly combined.
- Cover your newly made sausage, and set it aside in the refrigerator for a minimum of 30 minutes.
