Just tried a variation on my breakfast sausage recipe.
My standard recipe is:
8 oz. salt
2 oz. black pepper
1 oz. sage
mix together thoroughly and measure out ½ oz. of sausage seasoning mix per 1 lb. of meat.
To modify the recipe for lower salt, the one thing I did not want to do is to change the proportions of ingredients to each other as it could throw off the balance between salt, pepper and sage, so i reduced the amount of total seasoning added. Instead of ½ oz. per pound of meat I reduced it to 1/3 oz. per pound of meat, Then, instead of using pork butt @ approx. 85% leaned out product I bought 3 - 1lb. rolls of 85% lean ground turkey instead, so I used 1 oz. of seasoning to 3 lbs. of ground turkey. I mixed the sausage seasonings into the ground turkey adding about 4 oz. of water to get it to mix evenly, then did a fry test. The flavor was quite good, more than seasoned enough, in fact the next test I will reduce it to ¼ oz. of seasoning per pound of meat! My wife sampled it and it met her approval! Trying to have my cake and eat it too (er... sausage that is.. lol!)
My standard recipe is:
8 oz. salt
2 oz. black pepper
1 oz. sage
mix together thoroughly and measure out ½ oz. of sausage seasoning mix per 1 lb. of meat.
To modify the recipe for lower salt, the one thing I did not want to do is to change the proportions of ingredients to each other as it could throw off the balance between salt, pepper and sage, so i reduced the amount of total seasoning added. Instead of ½ oz. per pound of meat I reduced it to 1/3 oz. per pound of meat, Then, instead of using pork butt @ approx. 85% leaned out product I bought 3 - 1lb. rolls of 85% lean ground turkey instead, so I used 1 oz. of seasoning to 3 lbs. of ground turkey. I mixed the sausage seasonings into the ground turkey adding about 4 oz. of water to get it to mix evenly, then did a fry test. The flavor was quite good, more than seasoned enough, in fact the next test I will reduce it to ¼ oz. of seasoning per pound of meat! My wife sampled it and it met her approval! Trying to have my cake and eat it too (er... sausage that is.. lol!)