I am not a lover of sausages but since today is Shrove Tuesday and since we always have sausages with our pancakes I felt obliged to cook them. I am pretty fussy about which sausages I buy so when I went to the grocery store today they didn’t have any apple breakfast sausages, so I thought “why not make our own?” I bought the ground pork and headed home. We started with the ground pork adding the spices we like and then added the apple. the maple syrup was a no-brainer. Well needless to say I am a convert. These are the best breakfast sausage patties I have ever eaten. I borrowed the name from something called “pigs in blankets” which was a sausage wrapped in a pastry and the tune “shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy”.
Ingredients
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
- 1 apple, peeled and chopped
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1/2 teas dried sage
- 1 teas ground fennel
- 3/4 teas salt
- 1/4 teas pepper
- 1 tbls maple syrup
- oil for frying
Directions
- In a small food processor process the onion and apple. It should be fairly small pieces but not pureed. Heat a bit of oil in a frying pan and add the onion apple mixture. Saute until soft and a bit brown. Let cool a bit.
- Put the ground pork in a large bowl and add the spices, maple syrup and onion apple mixture. Mix well.
- Using a 1/4 cup of mixture (or 55g) shape into 9 patties and pan fry or freeze.
- Serve with your favourite pancakes or eggs or on biscuits.