How can I substitute ground beef for mild or medium sausage?

Well what does rice's sausage taste like?

In general, add salt and pepper to the ground beef and knead it in well. I'm not sure what kind of spices you might add. If it were Italian, you could add fennel and red pepper flakes. If it were breakfast sausage maybe some sage.

You can purchase sausage seasoning to use with the beef, or use a sausage recipe with ground beef instead of the pork.

What does the package say? What kind of sausage is it? Italian? Southern? Breakfast? Cajun?

Googling mild rice's sausage turns up this thread.

Add S&P, crushed fennel, red pepper flakes, crushed garlic or garlic powder, basil, oregano.... do a search for italian sausage recipe.

Mary B has the right flavor profile for Italian style sausage, especially the fennel. You might have better results using ground turkey instead of beef. I often season ground turkey for breakfast sausage just because I like it better than pork.

I can remember when Iwas growing up, the price of pork (as well as many other things) went through the roof. One night a week we would eat scrambled eggs with sausage for dinner. My mother, being inventive, decided to substitute ground beef for the pork in the sausage. None of us had an issue since she seasoned it exactly like she would her sausage mix.

Typically, we do not put garlic basil or oregano in our sausage. It's a simple mixture with fennel being the predominant flavor, behind the meat. The only other ingredients we use are paprika for color (it offers a little to the flavor but not too much), crushed red pepper for spice and and salt.

The resaon for this is when you start adding other ingredients to the sausage, especially ingredients that are the predominant or supporting flavors in a sauce for pizza or pasta, which basil and oregano are, the sausage doesn't really bring anything to the party and blends into what you are using it in. Just MVHPO.:D