Spicy Sausage Balls

1 pound spicy turkey or chicken sausage
1 slightly beaten egg
1/3 cup unseasoned fine bread crumbs
½ teaspoon dried sage
1/4 cup chili sauce
1/4 cup catsup
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon reduced sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon white vinegar


1. Remove the sausage meat from the casings and put in mixing bowl. Add the egg, bread crumbs, And sage and mix well. Shape into 4 dozen balls. Refrigerate or freeze.

2. Combine the chili sauce, catsup, brown sugar, soy sauce and vinegar and refrigerate or freeze.

3, To serve, let the sausage balls and sauce defrost, if frozen, and brown the sausage balls in a skillet on all sides. Pour off any fat.

4. Combine the sausage balls with the catsup-chili sauce mixture and simmer the sausage balls in the mixture 10-15 minutes, until they are cooked through. Serve from a chafing dish or, place the balls in a bowl and keep warm on a hot tray.

Yeild: 4 dozen