Savory Sausage and Sweet Apples Baked Together on a Sheet Pan

Enjoy a sausage sheet pan dinner with sliced sausages, apple wedges, and onions baked on a foil-lined tray with rice, seasoned with black pepper, and garnished with chopped parsley.

Savory Sausage and Sweet Apples Baked Together on a Sheet Pan

This sausage sheet pan dinner keeps things simple without tasting like it. Sweet Italian sausage, apples, and fennel roast together while the rice underneath absorbs all the juices, so every bite has flavor. It’s an easy weeknight dinner that doesn’t need much prep and doesn’t leave you with a sink full of dishes.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 40

Equipment

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Rimmed Baking Sheet

Ingredients

▢ ¼ cup olive oil
▢ ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
▢ 1 teaspoon salt
▢ 1 teaspoon pepper
▢ 1 lb sweet italian sausage links
▢ 2 bulbs fennel (sliced)
▢ 2 fuji apples (Sliced into 1 inch slices)
▢ 4 cups cooked rice/ Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375º.
Cook rice per package instructions.
Whisk together oil, vinegar, salt and pepper in a small bowl. In a larger bowl, combine sausages, fennel and apples and pour mixture over the top and stir to coat.
Place cooked rice in a mound in the middle of a rimmed baking sheet and cover with sausage and apple mixture.
Bake until sausages are cooked through, and apples slightly browned, about 40 minutes. A meat thermometer will read 160º.

Barbara's Notes + Tips

You can use 4 cups of cooked rice or an 8.8 oz package of cooked rice.
If you don't like licorice, leave out the fennel.
You can use any type of raw sausage in casing.
Try to use firm apples or they will get mushy.

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