So – I have literally just died and gone to culinary Heaven. Dinner tonight was off.the.charts. and I have AngieinAtlanta to thank! Last week I saw her recipe for Apple & Turkey Sausage in Acorn Squash and knew I had to have it as soon as possible. Based on Angie’s recipe, tonight I made Baked Sweet Potato with Apples & Turkey Sausage!
First I pricked a sweet potato all over with a fork and “baked” it in the microwave for 2.5 minutes on each side.
Meanwhile, I peeled and diced a Granny Smith apple and thinly sliced 1/4 of a yellow onion.
I sautéed the apples & onions in 1 tablespoon of EVOO and S&P on medium heat and got out my Turkey Sausage. This was lean, Sweet Italian Turkey Sausage. It’s not actually sweet – I think any sausage that isn’t “spicy” is considered “sweet.” Feel free to chime in if I’m off my rocker! Anyways – I added 2 links to my skillet with the apples & onions.
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I rotated the links until they were browned on both sides (~5 mins), then added one minced clove of garlic on top of everything and popped on a lid so the apples & onions could continue to get soft, and the sausage could cook all the way through (~another 5 minutes.)
Serve the apple, onion & sausage over the sweet potato. Dig in and wipe away your tears of joy because this was UNBELIEVABLE!
The natural sugars in the apple caramelize so perfectly, and since you cook this on medium heat – the onions also get really tender and flavorful.
Mixed with the slightly sweet, sweet potato and perfectly spiced Italian sausage – this is one quintessential Fall dinner that I could seriously eat week after week…after week, after week!
Thank you Angie for the awesome inspiration – this dinner rocked my face off!
Well tonight I’m going to give ANTM another go – hopefully I won’t get offended a la last week…hmph!
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Sweet or Regular Potato?!
While I would never turn down a regular potato, I do have a special place in my heart for the sweet variety!
Sweet potato all the way!!
Your dinner sounds wonderful and I must try it!
Sweet definitely. That’s one of the best fruits/veggies/overall food in my opinion
Brilliant recipe idea. I love it!
Sweet potatoes all the way, they’re just so perfect on their own. White potatoes need all sorts of doctoring up to taste good….IMO.
I eat sweet potatoes almost daily, so of COURSE I have to say sweet potato
Nice combo!
YUM!!!
I choose sweet potato over regular potato any day.
Seriously girl, we gotta cook together sometime… that looks fantastic!!! Check out my crazy cool cheese giveaway!
Hey! Thanks so much for the link and mention! I’m so glad you like the flavor combination as well.
But why does your food always look so much prettier than mine!?
Thanks again!
I would say sweet potato – but a regular potato with some cheese, black beans and salsa is definitely a fave of mine!
I’m like you, I wouldn’t turn down a regular potato (especially covered in salsa) but I prefer the sweet kind.
Dinner looks fantastic! What is it about the sweet/salty/spicy combos that are just so good? Love it
you are quite the cook girl! din looks amazing!
Wow, that looks fabulous. I can see why you died and went to culinary heaven
Sweet, all the way. And now my new find, that most of blog world has been doing for some time now, topping it with black beans!
Have a wonderful evening!
I am SO making this! YUM!!!
I love me some sweet potatoes … I dont think i can even eat mashed white ones anymore. Sad day
Your dinner looks so autumn-ish and yummy. love it!
Mmmm, I need to make a sweet potato dish soon! It’s so perfect for Fall
And I’ll take a sweet potato over a regular potato any day!
Def sweetP!
That meal looks fantastic! Caramelised onion and apples – ooh la la.
Looks great! Up until last Christmas I would have said regular potato, but my mom made a sweet potato dish that changed my life. I’m all about the sweet potatoes now.
I’m totally drooling at that pic. I have some chicken sausages at home in my freezer that I will definitely be trying this for soon.
And I’m totally a sweet potato fan. I don’t like the blandness of plain potatoes that require lots of butter, cream, etc to make it interesting. I can eat sweet potato plain.
Wow this looks amazing, my hubby doesn’t touch sweet potatoes but since theres meat in the dish I bet he wouldn’t notice!
I bet the apple sausage combo was delish. My mom used to buy these fantastic smoked Applewood sausages that were to die for! Looks like a great fall dish (hooray fall)!
Sweet potato, hands down.. baked fries, in the microwave.. whatever, they always taste so darn yummy
[...] but it was sooo good. I can never turn down a sweet potato if my life depended on it. However, Iowa Girl’s recipe looked a lot better, but I can barely find chicken in the Japanese grocery store. [...]
Sweet potatoes all the way, definitely!
This is apparently the season for stuffing foods
I just made stuffed zucchini boats last night!
That looks absolutely amazingly delicious!
5 stars! I made this tonight and it was so easy and tasted great! I used chicken sausage, fuji apples, and canned yams(which are kinda gross but that’s all we had-no sweet potato is safe in this house!). I will make this again, thank you
Found this recipe and your site while googling for sausage and Apple recipes. I made this for dinner tonight and it was awesome. Thanks for sharing it. I am now following you on Twitter and Facebook. I look forward to reading more from you!