Chicken sausage

[Anonymous]

What’s your favorite way to eat it? I’m trying to buy chicken sausage instead of things like pork and beef kielbasa, but looking for new ways to eat it.

[Anonymous]

Check the labels… sometimes the chicken stuff has the same amount of calories and salt and sat fat as the real thing…sometimes even more.

[Anonymous]

I know any sausage probably isn’t great, but we do want to eat meat and sausage is quick and a good change from fish, roast chicken, ham, beef stew… I figure it’s at least better than pork sausage or bacon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know any sausage probably isn’t great, but we do want to eat meat and sausage is quick and a good change from fish, roast chicken, ham, beef stew… I figure it’s at least better than pork sausage or bacon.

Not necessarily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know any sausage probably isn’t great, but we do want to eat meat and sausage is quick and a good change from fish, roast chicken, ham, beef stew… I figure it’s at least better than pork sausage or bacon.

That's the point - sometimes it's only negligibly better than pork sausage, and if that's the case, just have the real thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know any sausage probably isn’t great, but we do want to eat meat and sausage is quick and a good change from fish, roast chicken, ham, beef stew… I figure it’s at least better than pork sausage or bacon.

Just eat pork saysage

[Anonymous]

For goodness sake, OP wants to eat CHICKEN sausage! It's entirely different than pork sausage -- not like substituting ground turkey for ground beef, which is simply tasteless and disgusting. Yet you people do that all the time.

OP, I often make pasta with sliced chicken sausage, veggies and a creamy parmesan garlic wine sauce. It's delicious.

[Anonymous]

Don’t listen to PPs. Chicken sausage like Aidell’s brand typically has significantly less fat than pork or beef sausages like kielbasa.

For example, 85g or one link of aidell’s chicken and apple sausage has 3.5g of saturated fat. The same amount of hillshire farms kielbasa has 7.5g.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t listen to PPs. Chicken sausage like Aidell’s brand typically has significantly less fat than pork or beef sausages like kielbasa.

For example, 85g or one link of aidell’s chicken and apple sausage has 3.5g of saturated fat. The same amount of hillshire farms kielbasa has 7.5g.

We love this chicken and apple sausage. We just brown it in the cast iron pan with a little butter.

[Anonymous]

Some of the Whole Foods meat counters have freshly made chicken sausage (chorizo, andouille, italian, spinach & feta, bratwurst, etc.) These seem to have a lot less salt than the pre-cooked ones (I have not encountered any type of chicken sausage with as much fat as pork). We just eat it the way we would eat the pork version of the same thing.

[Anonymous]

OP. I didn't realize people were so against chicken sausage haha

[Anonymous]

OP. I just checked the label - it's 2.5g of fat/0.5g saturated (that seems pretty good!) and about 520mg sodium (high sodium, but not unusual for sausage I think). The pasta idea sounds good, I didn't know if the texture of chicken would work for that. I'll try it!

[Anonymous]

- Orecchiette with chicken sausage and broccoli rabe (can substitute whatever type of pasta and greens you like)
- Frittata with chicken sausage, sundried tomatoes, onion and pecorino cheese
- Chicken sausage and white bean soup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, OP wants to eat CHICKEN sausage! It's entirely different than pork sausage -- not like substituting ground turkey for ground beef, which is simply tasteless and disgusting. Yet you people do that all the time.

OP, I often make pasta with sliced chicken sausage, veggies and a creamy parmesan garlic wine sauce. It's delicious.

If you use ground Turkey and it tastes bad your ground beef likely does as well. BECAUSE YOU CANNOT COOK and do not know what you are doing.
Herbs and spices are your friend.

[Anonymous]

Sausage and peppers
Sausage and sautéed apples
Fresh ground sausage from Whole Foods I use in tacos, chili spaghetti.
Sliced sautéed sausage with tortellini and marscapone to make a sauce.