Sausage Patties in Air Fryer

How to cook sausage patties in air fryer PLUS eggs in the same basket makes the best Jimmy Dean breakfast ever!! Quick meal and grease drains away from the meat while cooking. If you loved our air fryer sausage links this is a great other option.

Air Fryer Sausage Patties Recipe

We began this all by making Ninja Foodi sausage but those were more like brats style and served for dinner. Seriously the best way ever with a nice snap on the outside while remaining tender on the inside. Now that is the only way they’re cooked in this house.

in Ninja Foodi

If you uses a Ninja Foodi, the lid that is attached is what you use. There are tons of brands out there. I personally go for what’s on sale so this is what I grabbed. They were each about 1/2″ thick.

Very similar timing with other patties as well. If you have air fryer frozen chicken patties that would add a few more minutes because they aren’t defrosted. Still a quick meal for sure and a kid favorite meal.

Ingredients

1. Breakfast sausage patties raw
2. Olive oil spray so they don’t stick

with Eggs

I loved our air fryer egg bites so much too that I thought it might be easy to make all of this together. It was! Talk about simple and convenient when everyone is hungry and you want to make a high protein nutritious meal for everyone. Game Changer!

If you want to add some eggs you can do that too!! You’ll need some silicone cups but cheese can be added to the top, whisk them with some salt, pepper and diced bell peppers. The possibilities are endless.

Tips

Love them REALLY crispy like me on the outside edges? Add another minutes at the end until they are as golden brown as you’d like them to be. Enjoy as is together or dice the meat and throw it all in a tortilla to make an air fryer burrito for yourself!

How to Cook Sausage Patties in Air Fryer

1. Preheat your air fryer so the temperature is even the whole time
2. Spray inside of your air fryer basket with non stick cooking spray
3. Lay in raw patties inside in a single layer. If you want to add 1 egg inside each silicone cup do that now.
4. Time to air fry your raw sausage patties flipping halfway to get browned all the way around.
5. Remove, ensure middle is not pink and reads 160F.

If it isn’t done, add 2 more minutes at a time checking in between until internal meat temperature reaches 160 degrees F. The air fryer cooking times sheet is a great guide to keep on hand for future reference.

when to add eggs

You could crack just the egg inside the silicone cup or whisk 2 tbsp milk + 1 egg + finely diced green onions or bell peppers together. Just don’t fill beyond 3/4 of the way full. For large eggs you’ll reach medium hard yolks in 5 minutes, medium size will be over hard in 5. SO if you cook these together just remove at minute 5, set aside for 3 minutes so they can continue firming up, and continue cooking meat for 2-3 more minutes.

with frozen sausage patties

In a Ninja Foodi or Cosori it would be closer to 10-12 minutes total AND you’ll want to put them in when your machine is cold. That way as it is warming up it will gradually defrost them. Set to 10, flip after 5 min.

I prefer to season with salt and pepper at the end but you could do inside the cups too. This is a game changer for us. Wouldn’t cook it in a pan ever again. On the barbecue grill is a close second but this is quick and easy for anyone to do.

I shared our egg bites link above, air fryer hard boiled eggs are possible but these are the best. Here’s why: Just crack an egg into each of these cups, season and they’re ready.

You can see the results below for your reference. The left one was a large and the right was smaller (more like what you’d consider medium). We have 12 chickens here so no store bought for us, but they do vary in size.

Italian sausage air fryer style are great for an air fryer breakfast too for larger pieces, try spicy sometime! Jump to recipe y’all and enjoy.