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How To Cook Sausage Patties In An Air Fryer

How To Cook Sausage Patties In Air Fryer At The Right Temperature

Are you curious about cooking sausage patties in an air fryer? If that’s the case, then this article is perfect for you. It’s important not to underestimate the value of a good breakfast at home. However, we also don’t want to kick off our mornings with cooking that takes forever. With these air fryer sausage patties, we can enjoy a quick, effortless breakfast that energizes us for the day ahead. Utilizing an air fryer to cook several batches of sausage patties a week keeps our meals interesting without repetition.

You can pretty much consider your sausage patties in the air fryer an ideal food as is! Paleo, keto-friendly, low-carb, dairy-free, and even gluten-free compliant makes sausage patties in an air fryer super versatile breakfast food. Irrespective of your eating preferences or dietary restrictions, it will work.

Your super simple yet tasty breakfast can be completed once the sausage patties are cooked in the air fryer. With air fryer sausage patties on your breakfast menu, you cannot go wrong no matter how you serve them. Serve them alongside scrambled eggs and frozen waffles, or alongside fried eggs and frozen hashbrowns.

This Will Appeal To You For A Number Of Reasons!

  • No matter how many sausage patties you make or how many you cook at once, sausage patties in the air fryer will make a quick and easy breakfast!
  • You won’t have to clean up a mess if you cook sausage patties in an air fryer instead of frying.
  • Using the air fryer will allow you to make breakfast while keeping your sausages’ natural flavor.
  • Your sausage patties will also cook in under 15 minutes!

We have been using our air fryers quite a bit lately, and devoting most of our time to them (and yes, there are multiples at home). We have discovered how easy it is to cook all kinds of pork products in the air fryer, including air fryer breakfast sausage links, air fryer kielbasa, air fryer Italian sausage, and even air fryer brats.

Notes On The Ingredients

Make a breakfast that is both tasty and healthy by using your air fryer to cook up your favorite sausage patties.

Johnsonville sausages are our preferred sausage patties

Equipment Used

For this recipe, I used a Cosori air fryer with a capacity of 5.8 liters.

Dietary adaptations

We do recommend reading the labels of the sausage patties and checking for ingredients that you want to stay away from, so that they work with low-carb, keto, and gluten-free diets.

This air fryer recipe for sausage patties is one of the quickest and easiest breakfast recipes you’ll ever see! All you have to do is cook, turn, and finish.

How To Cook Sausage Patties In An Air Fryer

Prepare the air fryer by preheating it to 370F for 5 minutes. Almost all air fryers come with a preheat feature, but if yours doesn’t, simply turn your air fryer to 370F and let it run for 5 minutes.

How Long To Cook Sausage Patties In An Air Fryer

  1. In the air fryer, place the sausage patties with space between them on all sides.
  2. Flip the sausage patties halfway through the cooking process. The total cooking time will be around 8 minutes. Before serving your sausage patties, make sure their internal temperature reaches 160F.
  3. You can serve this warm with eggs or waffles for breakfast! I hope you enjoy it!

Tips for cooking

  • It is important to preheat your air fryer before cooking your sausage patties.
  • Sausages are high in fat and do not require additional oil or cooking spray in the air fryer basket.
  • Our recommendation is to leave space between each sausage patty. In this way, air is properly circulated during cooking.
  • We do have instructions below for air fryer cooking frozen sausage patties, but this recipe uses thawed sausage patties.

Frequently Asked Questions

Breakfast sausage: What to serve it with?

Air fryer breakfast sausage patties are an easy and fast way to have breakfast. Prepare quick and easy breakfast sandwiches with patties and air fryer waffles or air fryer hashbrowns.

How To Cook Frozen Sausage Patties in An Air Fryer?

When cooking frozen sausage patties in an air fryer, just increase the cooking time by 2+ minutes and keep the temperature the same.

How Can I Reheat Leftover Breakfast Sausage?

Put the air fryer back on and reheat until everything is hot. You will enjoy them so much more than using a microwave!

How To Cook Frozen Sausage Patties in The Air Fryer

Getting breakfast on the table in the morning is as easy as cooking breakfast sausage patties in the air fryer! Whether you cook the whole pack or just a few, you’re sure to enjoy them.

Ingredients

1 lb frozen sausage patties

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat air fryer for five minutes at 370F
  2. In the air fryer, place the sausage patties with space between them on all sides.
  3. Cook the sausage patties in the air fryer for 10 – 12 minutes, or until they reach at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Halfway through cooking, flip them over.
  4. You can serve this warm with eggs or waffles for breakfast! You’ll love it!

Notes

  • You can cook sausage patties consistently by preheating the air fryer beforehand.
  • For this recipe, we used Johnsonville breakfast sausage patties, but any breakfast sausage patty will work, including maple-flavored.
  • As sausage is a higher fat food, you will not need to add any extra oil to the cooker basket.
  • Whether you’re using an air fryer oven or a basket-style air fryer, the recipe will be the same.
  • Depending on your air fryer model, some cook hotter or more quickly than others. If it is your first time cooking sausage patties in an air fryer, check them for doneness a couple of minutes before the cooking time shows on the package.
  • We recommend using a digital thermometer to determine whether the sausage is done when the internal temperature is 160F.

Final Thoughts

We should not scrimp on breakfast at home. Meanwhile, we do not wish to start our day with an hour-long cooking session either. We can have an easy, quick breakfast that can give us the energy to get through the day with these air fryer sausage patties. Using an air fryer allows us to make several sausage patties a week without getting bored with the same thing.

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