One Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage
This recipe, for One Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage, is based on one from a recent Better Homes and Gardens magazine. I like the fact that they get it. It’s winter so we need comfort food… and it needs to be easy and (don’t forget) nutritious.
One Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage
If it also uses up leftover CSA veggies, I am so in.
One Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage, up close
You can’t get much easier than two servings of veggies (one starchy) popped into the oven with a healthier sausage (you could even do a vegan sausage if you wanted). There’s even a tasty sauce with only four ingredients, though I admit to forgetting it once or twice when I was seriously hungry. Yes, also delicious plain.
Roots for roasting
The original recipe had twelve ounces each of beets and sweet potatoes. I switched this out to eight ounces each of beets, carrots and parsnips to match what I had on hand. So go ahead and use whatever roots move you.
Potatoes with rosemary
I also added 24 ounces of chunked up red potatoes. This meant that I didn’t need an additional starchy side to keep my husband from passing out. (Yes, it’s a bit daunting to feed someone who eats, um, 4 times what I do.) One-pan really means one-pan now!
Add sausage to One Pan Roasted Roots & Sausage
The dinner felt all warm and cozy. And despite eating a decadent food like sausage, I did it without guilt! This winter I have been big on peasant style, comfort food—alternated with fancy desserts. Does winter make you food-crazy?
Yup, bring on the comfort food. As long as it’s (reasonably) healthy!
Roasted Roots and Sausage Dinner
- • 8 ounces carrots (3-4 medium carrots) or other root vegetable
- • 8 ounces parsnips (2-3 medium parsnips) or other root vegetable
- • 8 ounces beets (about 1 large beet) or other root vegetable
- • 24 ounces potatoes (4-5 medium red potatoes)
- • 4 shallots, peeled and quartered or 1 small onion chopped large
- • 2 tablespoons olive oil
- • 1 teaspoon Chopped fresh rosemary
- • Salt and ground black pepper
- • 4 chicken sausage links (or other sausage of your choice), halved lengthwise
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F Place the vegetables, potatoes, and shallots in a large bowl that allows room for stirring. Drizzle with oil, sprinkle with salt, pepper and rosemary, and toss to coat. Spray a large pan with non-tick spray, then arrange vegetables in a single layer. Roast about 20 minutes until vegetables are almost tender.
- Stir vegetables and push to one side of the pan. Place sausage, cut side down, on other side of the pan. Roast for an additional 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender and sausage is cooked through (test sausage for doneness with an instant read meat thermometer if there is any question). Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Serve hot, with or without sauce (see notes).
- To include the sauce, mix together 1/2 cup non-fat plain Greek yogurt, 1 tablespoon reduced calorie mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish, 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Serve with veggies and sausage.
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I adore this meal! Yum.
Thanks Tammy!
dont we all love simple one pan dish like this? it looks lovey and the sauce sounds delicious! here, at times i do one pot rice dish, dump in the chicken, some chinese sausages, mushroom and some sauces into the rice cooker and cook!
Your dish sounds wonderful Lena! Have you posted it?
Love one pot meals! The veggies you used look so pretty. Have all these ingredients on hand too, so this is definitely getting made this week.
Yes, I have just realized the sadness of being a one pot “late bloomer!” And I am happy this allows you to substitute root vegetables too–do hate those extra shopping trips!
Hah! I have never roasted sausages! What a great idea. I love the veggies and sausage combo, too.
I was never a crock pot person, David, but now I am starting to discover the joys of one dish/pot meals. Ironic that I missed this in all my years as a working mom. Better late than never I guess!