Korean Inspired Spicy Chicken Sausage

One of our favorite chicken sausages from Trader Joe's is this Korean kalbi BBQ-inspired spicy chicken sausage ($3.99). Pre-cooked chicken sausages are a great thing to have in the fridge for a quick everyday meal, since you can just add them to vegetables and grains and have a nice, balanced dinner. Kind of wishing we had stocked up on another package before the blizzard warning came into existence.

One of our favorite ways to use chicken sausages like these isn't to heat them whole, but to chop them up with some vegetables in a low heat saute. We love combining this one with kale or spinach, mushrooms, and onions. We also mixed it with small white beans one time which worked out pretty nicely.

These sausages may have been inspired by kalbi recipes, but we wouldn't say they really taste that much like Korean BBQ, or that they're very spicy, like the name would suggest. They do have an Asian flavor and a small amount of mild heat, but there's also a nice sweetness to the recipe. The flavor seems to be mostly based on soy sauce, garlic, and ginger with sesame seeds, onion, scallions, red pepper flakes, and some other spices. They mention gochujang on the TJ's site, but we didn't really taste anything resembling gochujang with these sausages. They may not taste that much like kalbi or Korean BBQ to us, but we like them.

Buy Again? Yes, definitely!

Our TJ's Sausage Rankings:
1. Korean inspired spicy chicken sausage
2. Turkey cranberry apple sausage
3. Sweet Italian style chicken sausage