Learn how to cook sausage in the oven with this easy to follow step by step photo instructions. Great breakfast sausage “fried” in the oven. Why are you standing at the stove and making a mess?
I have been cooking bacon in the oven for several years but why not sausage? Everybody still stands at the stove and make a mess. Well, let’s put a stop to that now. Just pop it in the oven, flip once and done. That is a recipe?
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I love sausage.
Notes on How to Cook Sausage in the Oven
This are a lot of variables in this recipe. You have sausage patties and links. You have different thicknesses, different ovens, and different fat content. This should also tell you that you get a lot of flexibility in how you do this. The only important thing is an internal temperature of at least 165.
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Here is a tray of sausage patties in a 375 non-convection with my baked pancake. These were done at the same time as the pancakes (25 minutes with a flip at 12 minutes), but I hit them with the broiler for 2 minutes at the end to brown up to my taste. So adjust to what you’re doing. At 400 convection, the broiler was not needed, and it was done in 18 minutes total.
Preheat oven. I’m using 400 degrees convection. Anything from 375 to 425 with or without convection should be fine but you will need to adjust time and perhaps need a couple of minutes under a broiler at the end to brown up some.
Spread sausage over a rimmed baking tray so they don’t touch. I’m using a non-stick baking pan. A spray of PAM doesn’t hurt. You could use parchment paper or non-stick foil also.
Bake for 10 minutes then flip the sausage.
Finish cooking to nice color and internal temp of at least 165.
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 8 servings | 5 minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 18 minutes |
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| Learn how to cook sausage in the oven with this easy to follow step by step photo instructions. Great breakfast sausage "fried" in the oven.
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- 1 pound sausage breakfast
- Preheat oven. I'm using 400 degrees convection. Anything from 375 to 425 with or without convection should be fine but you will need to adjust time and perhaps need a couple of minutes under a broiler at the end to brown up some.
- Spread sausage over a rimmed baking tray so they don't touch. I'm using a non-stick baking pan. A spray of PAM doesn't hurt. You could use parchment paper or non-stick foil also.
- Bake for 10 minutes then flip sausage.
- Finish cooking to nice color and internal temp of at least 165.
This will have a lot of variability in this recipe. You have sausage patties and links. You have different thicknesses, different ovens, and different fat content. This should also tell you that you get a lot of flexibility in how you do this. The only important thing is an internal temperature of at least 165.
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All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
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Last Updated
September 11, 2016
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Linda
wow. The sausage looks so delicious. Will try it later.
DrDan
Thanks for the note. It is as good as it gets.
DrDan
Jack
Tried your recipe this morning. Will never fry again. Trying the bacon tomorrow .
Jack
Tried your recipe this morning. Will never fry again. Trying the bacon tomorrow . I definitely rate as a5
DrDan
Thanks for the note and rating. I wonder why I didn’t do it before.
DrDan
Cash Jinkins
Oh my gosh. My hole tire life I been cookin sausage in a skillet spittin grease all over my linoleum! After a few weeks/months of that my kitchen flore is like a ice skatin rink covered in dust! This way is the best way to make sausage! I can’t believe I never thunked of this ever in my hole life! No more greasy floors! Muchyass grassiass omigo!
Karen Hord
You’re a smartass!!!
Michelle
Perfect? just made this, this morning! Will forever cook my sausage this way now!
Susan Ramseur
I’ve also been cooking bacon in the oven for many years and wondered about cooking sausage that way. Thanks for your instructons. I’ll be doing this tomorrow.
K Mahon
Good stuff; it is the only way I will cook patties from here on. To keep the wife happy and oven clean, I line the rack with foil to catch any spatter. But there is less oil jumping all over the place because it is a much more even cook in the oven… in my opinion.
DrDan
I haven’t done stovetop for a long time. You are so right, the cooking is so much more even and it stays moist.
Thanks for the note.
DrDan
Karen
Wow!!! Why didn’t i think of this before. Cook bacon in oven all the time.. Today cooked the whole tube in slices, we ate 4 and i saved 4 for tomorrow!!!! I would rate this an 8!!!!
DrDan
I like oven so much better. I get it all to the right temperature and don’t overcook and dry them out. Not to mention the mess.
Thanks for the note.
Dan
Pam
When you flip them do you cook another 10 minutes on the other side?
DrDan
Yep about. Cook to an internal temperature of 165 and nice color. That is usually about 8-10 minutes on the second side for a total cooking time of 18-20 minutes. If you get to 165 and the color is still not what you want, hit it with a minute or two of the broiler.
Dan
Larry
Thanks for the info this will be a lot less mess
DrDan
Thanks for the note Larry,
I find the sausage also is better since I don’t over cook.
Dan
Jessaca Mattox
I have been doing my sausage patties/links & bacon in the oven for YEAR’S! I had no idea it was such a foreign concept to so many. I just assumed it was the lazier version of what others did only I managed to figure a simpler & quicker way of doing it lol. Glad I am not the only one out there.