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.
12ozItalian sausage12-16 oz ideally (calories calc'd on 12 oz Pork)
1largeRed pepper
1largeGreen pepper
1largeOrange pepper
4mediumSweet potatoes
1largeOnionyellow, white or purple
2-4tspItalian Herb Mix(or oregano, parsley and basil)
2-3TblOlive Oilextra virgin
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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??