Fresh Sausage Patties

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 12

    servings (depending on time of day and accompaniments)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

These are made wherever there are pigs, which is most of the world. And everywhere (except in American supermarkets), they contain a great deal of fat. In fact, you cannot make real sausage without fat, ideally in a ratio of about two parts lean to one part fat. (“Lean” sausage is not sausage; it’s hamburger.) So if you’re entirely antifat, pass this recipe by.

For the rest of you, there is nothing like homemade sausage, not on your first try, but on about your third or fourth, when