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Sausage Balls

Chop everything, mix everything, form balls, cook.
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Calories: 100
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound breakfast sausage
  • 1 pound Hot Italian sausage
  • 1 c shredded cheese, any flavor cheddar is a great choice
  • 3/4 c celery finely chopped
  • 3/4 c onion, any color finely chopped
  • 2/3 c Italian bread crumbs
  • 3 cloves garlic minced or grated with a microplane
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 10 grinds of a pepper mill or 1 tsp

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350 and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper or foil.
  2. If you have a food scale, zero it with a plate on it so you can keep the balls uniform size.
  3. Chop and mince everything, beat the eggs, and combine it all in a large bowl.
  4. Form the mixture into 1 oz balls and line them up on the cookie sheets.
  5. Cook at 350 for about 50 minutes. Rotate the cookie sheets top to bottom and front to back at the 25-minute mark.

Notes

You can use any sausage you want. I've experimented with turkey sausage and tried to manipulate the spices to replicate traditional breakfast sausage flavor. After a few attempts, I've decided regular pork sausage is just fine.
I often play around with the seasonings by adding fresh sage, fresh oregano, or thyme if I have the herbs.
Calorie/nutrition data is calculated for one ball, assuming you'll get about 40 balls from the whole recipe. As you can see, it's not exactly a low-calorie recipe. The trick is to not pig out on them. Put 3 in your salad, grab 2 for a post workout snack. Don't knock back the whole tray in one sitting.