Maple Bacon Bisquick Sausage Balls
These Maple Bacon Bisquick Sausage Balls combine so many of your favorite breakfast flavors into an easy grab-and-go morning treat you can make once and eat all week! I love this recipe for meal prep because the sausage balls can be refrigerated or frozen and they reheat perfectly with minimal effort. If you already love my recipe for traditional Bisquick Chicken Sausage Balls, this one is very similar, but with maple syrup and bacon! Not only are these Maple Bacon Bisquick Sausage Balls simple to make and tasty to eat, each one is just 83 calories or 2 WW Point on Weight Watchers! To view your current WW Points for this recipe and track it in the WW app, click here!
Recipe Notes
- Bacon: I pretty much always use center cut bacon in my recipes, because it’s just a leaner cut or traditional bacon. Oscar Mayer is my favorite brand for it and it can be found in all my local grocery stores, which is a bonus!
- Maple Syrup: You’ll want to use the good stuff in this recipe. Choose real maple syrup, and in my opinion, the darker the better for a bold maple flavor. You’re not adding a ton of syrup in this recipe, but choosing one with a strong flavor will make a little go a long way!
- Sausage: Most recipes for these types of sausage balls use pork sausage, but I lightened them up and made them more WW-friendly by adding sausage seasonings to ground chicken. Don’t be intimidated to do this extra step, it only takes a couple minutes to measure out a few seasonings and stir them in. The results are worth it!
- Ground Chicken: I used ground chicken for this recipe, but you can easily substitute ground turkey if that’s what you have on hand. I highly recommend using a ground chicken or turkey that’s around 92-93% lean rather than an extra lean breast-meat-only kind that’s 98-99% lean. Your sausage balls will be more moist and tasty (and still lightened up) with the higher fat percentage.
- Bisquick: I used the Bisquick Heart Smart variety, which has a bit less fat than the original Bisquick baking mix. If you have the original Bisquick on hand, you can absolutely use that instead. I don’t believe it even changes the WW Points.
- Cheese: I used Sharp Cheddar Cheese made with 2% Milk, which tasted great! If you want to change it up and use a different variety of shredded cheese, you certainly can.
- Rolling the Balls: The meat/dough mixture can be a bit sticky, but I found that spraying my hands with a bit of cooking spray and rubbing them together before rolling the balls helped tremendously!
- Freezing/Storing: You can definitely make these ahead and then freeze them, either before or after baking. With cooked leftovers or defrosted cooked balls, I reheated them in my air fryer at 325 degrees for 5-6 minutes.
More Tasty Lightened Up Breakfast Recipes
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Maple Bacon Bisquick Sausage Balls
Ingredients
- 4 slices center cut bacon, (I use Oscar Mayer)
- 1 lb lean ground chicken or ground turkey, (use 92-93% lean)
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper
- ¼ teaspoon fennel seeds
- 2 ½ cups Bisquick Heart Smart Baking Mix
- ¼ cup skim milk
- 4 tablespoons high quality maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 6 oz shredded 2% milk sharp cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Cook the bacon to crisp according to package instructions and transfer to a stack of paper towels to drain the grease. Crumble or chop into small pieces.
- Pre-heat the oven to 350. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Ina large mixing bowl, add the ground chicken, paprika, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, and fennel seeds and stir with a fork or mush together with clean hands until thoroughly combined. Add the Bisquick, milk, maple syrup, parsley, crumbled bacon, and shredded cheese and stir together with a spoon or spatula until well combined.
- Divide the meat mixture into 32 even piles and roll each one into a ball (it helps if you spray your palms with cooking spray before rolling). Each ball is roughly two tablespoons if you’d rather do it that way. Place the balls a bit apart on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 20-24 minutes until cooked through.
Notes
83 calories, 9 g carbs, 3 g sugars, 3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 5 g protein, 0 g fiber, 157 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus:
2 per piece (P+ calculated using a WWPP calculator an the nutrition information provided)
Recipe is call sausage balls and there is NO sausage in the recipe.
She used ground chicken for lower calories and added spices to make it taste like sausage
You add sausage seasonings to the ground chicken to make your own in this recipe!