By simply adding breakfast sausage and sweet onion to pancake batter, you’ve got over-the-top savory sausage pancakes. Next time you’re craving pancakes and sausage, try combining the two into one simple dish. Putting cooked breakfast sausage in pancakes is our favorite way to enjoy this classic breakfast.
What You Can Expect From This Recipe
Whenever I make pancakes, I’m always reminded how easy they are, and then wonder why I don’t make them more often.
This is a super easy recipe for homemade pancakes, made special by adding crumbled cooked breakfast sausage to the batter.
We used to get giddy when someone would sprinkle some chocolate chips into pancake batter. But inheriting the savory gene rather than the sugary one, I’m giddy over adding cooked breakfast sausage and onions to pancake batter.
Pancakes and sausage make a great flavor combination because they hit that perfect balance of sweet and savory. Salty cooked breakfast sausage combined with slightly sweet, buttery pancake batter, the texture the flavor is intoxicating.
This is a homemade pancake recipe without buttermilk. No special trips to the store. I use whole milk in this recipe.
Served and topped with a pat of butter and maple syrup … who can resist fluffy homemade savory pancakes? Not me.
Serve Sausage Pancakes alongside fried eggs and fresh fruit. Breakfast is served
Noteworthy Ingredients
See full list of ingredients and precise measurements in the recipe card below.
- Breakfast Sausage: The star of the show. Any breakfast sausage will work, but choosing a Maple flavored brand will bring even more flavor. Jimmy Dean offers maple flavored breakfast sausage and check out Bovine and Swine’s Artisan Maple Sausage Breakfast links.
- Sweet Onion: Keeping onion small chopped will blend better with the smooth batter.
- Milk: I’m sure buttermilk pancakes are wonderful, but I’ve always made my batter with whole milk, which I always have on hand.
Step by Step Instructions, It’s Easy
- Step 1: Brown the Breakfast Sausage: Add crumbled breakfast sausage to a non-stick fry pan. Cook until pink is just starting to disappear from the meat. Add the onion and cook until tender, about 2 minutes.
- Step 2: Make the pancake batter: Add the dry ingredients into a bowl. Lightly beat the egg and add it to the milk in another bowl.
- Step 3: Add milk and egg to the dry ingredients and stir well.
- Step 4: Stir in the onion and cooked sausage until well mixed.
- Step 5: Cook the Sausage Pancakes: Use the non-stick pan you used to fry the onion and sausage. Add a spray of the oil and once hot, add ¼ cup of the pancake batter. Cook each pancake on one side until bubbles start to show on the uncooked side.
- Step 6: Turn the pancake and cook until other side is golden brown.
Tip: When I make sausage pancakes for the two of us, I use a skillet and make 1 – 2 pancakes at a time. Which means I need to keep them warm. As each pancake cooks, place them on a warmed plate and cover with a clean kitchen towel. When feeding more people, you can cook them on a griddle and make many pancakes at once.
Tips for Success
- Be gentle when cooking the sausage. I don’t like the term “browning” meat. Browned ground meat carries a crispy texture. Cook the sausage just until the pink has been cooked from the meat. The texture will be more tender and will compliment the creamy texture of the pancakes.
- Use a non-stick spray to cook the pancakes. Avocado oil spray or PAM works well here.
Questions You Might Have
Absolutely yes. This recipe makes about 16 pancakes and with just the two of us, I wrap them well in packages of four pancakes, in plastic wrap. They freeze beautifully. Just place them in the refrigerator the night before, then reheat the thawed pancakes using either a microwave or air-fryer.
Yes, and doing so will make this an even easier breakfast recipe. Using pre-cooked links or sausage patties will work well here, just make sure you cut or crumble them in small enough pieces to be manageable in the pancake batter. If I were going to eliminate the step of cooking fresh sausage, then I’d simply omit the step of adding fresh onions.
More Breakfast Recipes
And don’t miss my category for Breakfast Recipes, you’ll find some eye-opening recipes to get your day started. Including the most popular on my site for Pan Fried Biscuits. Made from canned biscuits, these are a true treat.
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Maple Sausage Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter
- 10 ounces Breakfast Sausage Preferably Maple flavored.
- ¼ Cup Sweet Onion fine chopped
- 2 Cups All purpose flour
- 2 ½ teaspoons Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 ½ Cups Milk Drizzle in more milk if batter needs thinned. I think I probably used about ⅛ more cup of milk.
- 1 large Egg lightly beaten
- Butter and pure maple syrup for serving
Instructions
- Add crumbled breakfast sausage to a non-stick fry pan. Cook over medium heat until pink is just starting to disappear from the meat. Add the onion and cook until tender, about 2 minutes.
- Add the dry ingredients into a bowl. Lightly beat the egg and add it to the milk in another bowl. Add milk and egg to the dry ingredients and stir well.
- Stir in the cooked onion and sausage to the batter and stir until well mixed.
- I use a spray can of Avocado oil to fry the pancakes. Use the non-stick pan you used to fry the onion and sausage. Add a spray of the oil and once hot, add ¼ cup of the pancake batter. Cook each pancake on one side until bubbles start to show on the uncooked side. Turn and cook until other side is golden brown.
- Stack cooked pancakes on a plate as you make them, cover with a clean towel to keep them warm until ready to serve.
- Serve topped with butter and a drizzle of pure maple syrup.
Notes
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- Be gentle when cooking the sausage. I don’t like the term “browning” meat. Browned ground meat carries a crispy texture. Cook the sausage just until the pink has been cooked from the meat. The texture will be more tender and will compliment the creamy texture of the pancakes.
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- Use a non-stick spray to cook the pancakes. Avocado oil spray or PAM works well here.
- Any breakfast sausage will work, but choosing a Maple flavored brand will bring even more flavor. Jimmy Dean offers maple flavored breakfast sausage and check out Bovine and Swine’s Artisan Maple Sausage Breakfast links.
Nutrition
Savory Sausage Pancakes … it’s What’s for Breakfast
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