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Italian Sausage Sheet Pan Dinner

Quick and healthy sheet pan dinner including sweet potatoes, peppers and italian sausage. If you are interested in cutting calories or saturated fats, consider using turkey or chicken italian sausage. Also - to #VegItUp - consider what else you have in your vegetable drawer that might be good in this mix .... (Summer squash / zucchini ?) Don't be afraid to use whatever bell peppers you have in your drawer. Only caveat is that you shouldn't over crowd your sheet pan. If you get too many veg, you may need a second pan, increased EVOO and spices.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4 people
Calories 601 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Sheet Pan
  • 1 Parchment Paper
  • 1 Large mixing bowl

Ingredients
  

  • 12 oz Italian sausage 12-16 oz ideally (calories calc'd on 12 oz Pork)
  • 1 large Red pepper
  • 1 large Green pepper
  • 1 large Orange pepper
  • 4 medium Sweet potatoes
  • 1 large Onion yellow, white or purple
  • 2-4 tsp Italian Herb Mix (or oregano, parsley and basil)
  • 2-3 Tbl Olive Oil extra virgin

Instructions
 

  • Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees.

Prepare Ingredients

  • Wash all vegetables - and chop. Peel potatoes if you like. Dice Potatoes 3/4" and peppers / onions into large, but bite sized pieces.
  • Remove the casing from the italian sausage, if it is easy to do. Slice, chop or otherwise segment the italian sausage into bite sized pieces.
  • Place all ingredients in a very large bowl and add a couple of spins of EVOO (2 -3 Tbl), Salt and Pepper (1/2 - 3/4 tsp Salt and 1/4 - 1/2 tsp Pepper).
  • Add your italian seasoning spice - or individual oregano, parsley, and basil. (2 - 4 tsp IN TOTAL) do the lesser amount and look at it and smell it - and then add more if it's not looking like enough / smelling like enough.
  • Mix all ingredients well, using a large spoon - or your hands.... If the mixture doesn't look like it has enough EVOO, add a bit more. You don't need the mixture to look glossy and you don't want to have EVOO pool in the bottom of the bowl. Everything should be slightly coated.
  • Put a piece of parchment on your sheet pan to help keep the pan from burning up.... Dump contents of the bowl onto the sheet pan and spread it out for even baking.

Bake & Serve

  • Put the sheet pan into the oven at 425 - and cook 15 minutes. Take the pan out of the oven and stir up the ingredients. Take a bite of one of the potatoes and one of the peppers. Do they seem half done ? If yes, put the sheet pan back into the oven for another 15 minutes. If less than half done - maybe cook an additional 20 minutes. If more than half done - maybe you only need another 10 minutes... Bake time depends on how big you chopped everything and how hot your oven runs.
  • Serve by plating the dinner or place into a large serving bowl and allow everyone to serve themselves.

Notes

When you serve this to your family (or if even if it's just you) give yourself a big hearty "Wha-La".  Healthy veggies, lots of colors (aka vitamins) and all you had to do was do a little chopping, mix with EVOO and some spices and bake.  What could be easier ? 
I'm wondering - what else everyone added to their sheet pan that was in their veg drawer??
 

Nutrition

Serving: 4gCalories: 601kcalCarbohydrates: 57gProtein: 17gFat: 35gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 18gCholesterol: 65mgSodium: 752mgPotassium: 1289mgFiber: 10gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 34800IUVitamin C: 148mgCalcium: 118mgIron: 3mg
Keyword easy, healthy
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