Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
• 3 tablespoons water
• 3/4 cup quick oats
• 1 cup brown rice, cooked
• 2 tablespoons gluten-free flour (we use chickpea flour but nearly any will do, including all-purpose)
• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
• 1 1/2 tablespoons gluten-free tamari
• 1 tablespoons vegetable oil
• Optional but highly recommended: 1 teaspoon vegan worcestershire sauce (we like Annie’s)
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 teaspoons ground sage
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme

Directions

Preheat your oven to 425° if you are going to bake your sausage patties.

Stir together the flax and water in a small bowl or cup, and set aside (this is known as a flax egg).

Place the oats in your food processor fitted with the S blade, and turn on for about 5 seconds. You want to break up the oats a bit, but you don’t want to make oat flour. It should look like this:

Now add the brown rice to the food processor and process for another 5 or so seconds; you want to break up the rice into bits, but not pulverize it. It should look like this:

Add in all of the rest of the ingredients, including the flax egg.

Process until the mixture starts to form a ball on its own, like this:

(How cool is that that the mixture, or ‘dough’, tells you when it’s ready by collecting itself into a ball? By the way, if you are in the market for a ‘new’ food processor, we highly recommend getting on eBay or Craigslist and buying an old Cuisinart. They just don’t make them like they used to!)

Grab a small handful of the mixture (watch those sharp blades!), roll it into a ball about the size of a golf ball, and then set it on a baking sheet that you have either greased or lined with a silicone baking sheet (if you are baking your sausage patties) or a plate (if you are going to fry them). Press down on the top of each ball to flatten it into a patty.

To bake your sausage patties brush both sides of each patty with a neutral oil, and bake at 425° for 10 minutes, then flip them over and bake for another 10 minutes. Note: You can omit brushing them with oil if you like, they will just be a bit drier.

To fry your sausage patties heat a bit of neutral oil in a frying pan, and cook them until they are browned on both sides. Transfer to a paper towel to soak up any excess oil before serving.

Let us know if you make these, and what, if anything, you did differently!