Sausage Seasoning Recipe - Add Fab Flavours
to Your Homemade Ground Pork Recipes

When making homemade sausages and burgers, a quality sausage seasoning recipe is a must for the best tasting meat. And this easy-to-make mix of spices and herbs is just the thing for all your ground pork dishes. The sumac is optional and the recipe will still work great without it.

What You'll Need: (makes about 6 tablespoons)

2 tbsp fennel seeds
2 tbsp black peppercorns
2 tbsp dried rosemary
1 tbsp dried sage
2 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tsp sumac (optional)
2 tsp salt
2 tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder

tbsp = tablespoon
tsp = teaspoon

Directions:

  • Coarsely grind the fennel, rosemary, salt and peppercorns
  • Add to a bowl
  • Stir in the cayenne pepper, onion, garlic and, if using, the sumac powder
  • Finally, crumble in the dried sage and stir again

Store your sausage spices in an airtight container out of direct sunlight and in a cool place. Use within 3 months.

Note: If you have time you could dry toast the fennel and peppercorns prior to letting cool and grinding. This will bring out even more flavours. See the grinding page for further info on toasting and grinding. (Link opens in new window)

Using Your Sausage Seasoning Recipe

picture of homemade sausage seasoning

I recommend using 2 tablespoons per pound of meat. So the above is enough for 3 pounds. 

After mixing with the meat, it's a good idea is to fry a tablespoon of the blend and taste.

This way you can adjust the levels to your liking if necessary. 

You can double or treble the amount of ingredients if you have a lot to cook.

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