one pan roasted squash, apple, and sausage dinner
Fast family-friendly weeknight meals like this simple One Pan Roasted Squash, Apple and Sausage Dinner are so helpful to have on hand!
This fall, weekdays have been going by in a flurry. How have the girls been back in school for almost a full month already?? We have after school activities almost every day. I’m thinking I need to paint my car school bus yellow…
The weekends this September have been busy too, and equally as productive. Jase is building us a real sugar house for maple season next spring. Woohoo. This backyard sugaring operation is about to go legit! The sugar house, is coming right along and it’s a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since Jase is obsessed with out buildings and sugaring, so I should have known it would be more than a shack!
Last weekend, I went to Blog Brulee at Smugglers’ Notch to speak about food photography. It was my second year with the honor of being invited to talk about food photography for food bloggers, and I had a wonderful time. And I learned a lot too.
My girls and I went also went apple picking at my favorite local orchard. We picked McIntosh and Galas. The Honey Crisp were only available pre-picked in the farm store, and I paid a premium for a bag of those as well. They are totally and completely worth it!
I have been baking and cooking with the apples since we brought them all home. Luckily, I have a second fridge in the basement, so I haven’t been worried about them going bad. I hope they last until Thanksgiving. If we don’t eat them all first! I used some of the apples in this one-pan sausage dinner recipe today, and I have at least two more recipes coming soon with apples so be on the lookout for those in the next couple of weeks.
Creating This One-Pan Dinner Recipe
So, speaking of this one-pan dinner recipe… um, you guys. Trust me, you are going to LOVE the taste of this sausage dinner! The flavor is so good.
The butternut squash gets roasted for a little bit, because it takes longer than everything else, then I added in kale from our garden, our fresh picked local apples and sliced organic Applegate Organic Chicken Apple Sausage.
Friends, I’m in love with the whole one-pan dinner concept! They’re so easy to make and clean up! So check out this Lemon Butter Chicken from Veggie Balance. It’s another awesome one-pan dinner featuring chicken. I also have been loving this sheet pan salmon dinner with Moroccan Spice and this Chicken Sheet Pan dinner with Broccoli and Honey Sriracha Sauce.
Adding More Flavor
I have to confess, I sent an earlier draft of it to Sarah, who helps me with cross-testing, and she sent the test report back requesting more flavor. You don’t have to tell a flavor hound like me to up the flavor more than once!
- I added smoked paprika, nutmeg and Dijon mustard.
- Plus it has sherry vinegar and dark maple syrup.
I am so glad she did say something, because though I liked it pretty well when I sent it to her the first time, after I added some oomph, now it is simply delicious! Like everybody-had-seconds-good!
How to Make This One-Pan Sausage Dinner
This one-pan dinner recipe comes together in about 45 minutes and requires very little hands on prep work. To make this sausage dinner, simply:
- Remove the seeds from the butternut squash
- Cut up a butternut squash
- Slice a few links of chicken apple sausage
- Shred the kale
- Peel and chop the apples.
- Toss the squash in a little olive oil and spices and roast for 10 minutes.
- Then, add the rest of the produce and sausage to the baking tray and roast for another 20 minutes or so, until the apples and squash have softened.
- Take the sheet pan out of the oven and immediately toss everything with a mixture of sherry vinegar, mustard, and maple syrup.
Menu Pairing Ideas For Roasted Squash, Apple, and Sausage dinner
For an easy fall appetizer, you could make this Pumpkin Pie Dip with apple slices.
This is pretty much a one pan meal recipe, but you could serve it with some Simple Skillet Green Beans if you want to fill out the plate with more veggies.
For dessert, you could make Pumpkin Pie with Chocolate Swirl, or if you are gluten-free you could make Gluten-free Apple Pie.
This sausage dinner is best enjoyed right away, but leftovers will keep in the fridge for a few days.
More sausage recipes:
Maple, Potato, and Sausage Breakfast Skillet with Kale
Roasted Potatoes with Apples, Sausage, and Maple Mustard Glaze
Apple, Cheddar and Sausage Breakfast Strata
Spaghetti Squash with Turkey Sausage Ragu
Printone pan roasted squash, apple, and sausage dinner
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 9 cups 1x
- Category: Main Course
- Method: Roasted
- Cuisine: American
Description
Fall means busier schedules, so this one pan roasted squash, apple and sausage dinner is a perfect fast family-friendly weeknight meal!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup, dark or amber
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 medium-small butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 1 ½-inch chunks (1 ½ to 2 pounds)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 3 small apples, cored and cut into 1 ½-inch chunks
- 4 links chicken apple sausages, sliced
- 4 cups finely shredded kale
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425ºF. Shake vinegar, maple syrup and mustard in a small jar.
- Meanwhile, toss squash, oil, smoked paprika, salt, nutmeg and pepper in a large bowl to coat. Spread out on a large rimmed baking sheet.
- Transfer squash to the oven and roast 10 minutes. Add apples, sausage and kale and toss to coat. Return to the oven and roast, stirring once or twice until the apples are softened and the squash is tender, about 18 to 22 minutes longer. Remove from the oven.
- Drizzle the vinegar mixture over the roasted mixture and toss to coat. Serve immediately.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 1/4 cups
- Calories: 365
- Sugar: 15 g
- Sodium: 905 mg
- Fat: 13 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 13 g
Should the apple be peeled as well?
You can peel the apple, but it is a little healthier to leave it on. If you don’t mind the texture- it’s totally fine to leave it on.
Delicious! The sausage gave such marvelous flavor to this easy dinner!
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Thanks so much Liz!
This is my kind of one pan dinner! So perfect for a busy weeknight when you need something easy to make!
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Thanks Lindsay!
Love an easy one pan meal that is total comfort food! The warming flavors are just perfect for this season.
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Thanks so much Jennifer!
Loved this the first time I made it!! Can the recipe be modified ito use frozen butternut squash instead of fresh?
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I think you can use frozen squash. It won’t brown as well but should taste great. Since it is already soft, you can start cooking it at the same time as the apples etc. They should all cook at about the same rate.
This was AWESOME! We will be making this again.
I had to do some substitutions because of what I had, but i think you would still recognize it. (Vegan sausage, butternut squash noodles, spinach instead of kale. And I threw in some walnuts — because walnuts. )
This is going to the potluck with me tomorrow — Yum!
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Sounds amazing! Love the idea of adding walnuts too. Brilliant! I’ll definitely try that next time I make this. Thanks for coming back by to review Rebecca.
Perfect Fall dish! I googled butternut squash apples and sausage paleo and happy it led me here to your site. I’ve made a variety of recipes with these ingredients but I’m always looking for something new. Substituted/eliminated a few things since we are doing a round of whole30 and what I had on hand and still was great. I didn’t have sausage links so I had to dirty another pan brown some ground sausage. I will try again with the chicken apple sausage and roast all together- so easy. Love the ease of one pan and less fuss for busy week nights.
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I am so happy to hear you found this recipe and it came out so well. Thank you Marta!
so good and so easy! a perfect weeknight meal!
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Oh I am so happy to hear you liked it! Thank you Caroline!
I made this recipe with a few tweaks. I browned the venison sausage first, mixed all the ingredients in a ziplock back with the liquid mixture, and used a cast iron skillet on the grill. The dinner turned out delicious. What a great garden to table recipe
That sounds like such a fun way to tweak this recipe. I love using my grill for everything at this time of year. Great idea!
Love this recipe. I came into the possession of several butternut squash. I tried a couple of other recipes but they just didn’t impress me that much. This recipe is amazing. It’s also easy to modify. For instance, who has sherry vinegar in the pantry? I have rice wine, acai, pepper, apple, red wine and balsamic (probably more). I used red wine. I think spinach would also be a good modification. I used Kielbasa because it was what I had.
The unpeeled apples were fine maybe better than fine. I used MacIntosh apples. I know that they sauce well so I thought that they would add a stew like medium.
It was fantastic.
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Hi Steven. I am so happy to hear you liked it so well. I love hearing about your modifications too. For someone who has such a well stocked vinegar selection I gotta give a shout out to sherry vinegar. It is honestly one of my favorites, especially with the flavors of the fall. If you do get some my maple sherry vinaigrette is insanely good. Like, want to drink it straight-good! haha! Here’s the link: https://www.healthyseasonalrecipes.com/maple-sherry-vinaigrette/ Anyway, love connecting with you about this recipe and so glad you reviewed it and left a star rating. It’s super helpful!
Awesome dish! Didn’t have smoked paprika so I used 2:1 ratio of chili powder and cumin. This was a delicious, keeper recipe.
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Delicious! My wife and I both loved it, might try it with two granny smith apples (of the size I used) though…
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