Plant-Based Breakfast Sausage
Plant-based breakfast sausage using easy-to-find, affordable ingredients. Complete your plate of plant-based breakfast sausage with a side of tofu scramble, biscuits, and mushroom bacon.
Ingredients
- 16 ounces extra firm tofu
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons pancake syrup
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 cup oat flour
- 1/2 cup crushed walnuts
- Vegan butter
Instructions
- Drain and press tofu
- In a large bowl, tear apart tofu with hands or a fork and form small crumbles
- Add and combine smoked paprika, salt, chili powder, brown sugar, pancake syrup, soy sauce, oat flour, crushed walnuts, and chia egg to the bowl
- Take the mixture and form small balls and flatten them out into sausage patties. Add more oat flour if mixture is too wet.
- Add butter to a non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Pan-fry vegan sausage patties for 4-5 minutes on each side, until golden
- Optional: pour additional maple/pancake syrup on top of the plant-based sausage patties.
Notes
- If the vegan sausage mixture is too wet, feel free to add more oat flour.
- Taste the tofu mixture prior to cooking to see if it meets your preference and tastebuds.
- You can use either pancake or maple syrup.
- For instructions to make oat flour and chia seed “egg,” see notes above this recipe, within the blog post.
- This recipe makes about 12-14 servings