This Sausage, Apple & Sweet Potato Bake is so easy to make and so delicious – perfect for make ahead breakfast or can be dinner too!

Happy New Year!  Instead of starting the year off with a salad, let’s start with a super comforting yet healthy breakfast. Honestly this could be a lunch or dinner too but to make things easy for us, let’s call it breakfast.  This sausage, apple & sweet potato bake is also perfect to make ahead the night before then just add some cheese (or don’t) and reheat in the oven in the morning.  The sweet spices are obviously perfect for apple but they also pair insanely well with sausage and sweet potato.   And if you are like me, breakfast during the week can be a struggle.  This dish can be prepped on a Sunday and reheated each morning for a cozy and filling start to your day.  This new year I am focusing on movement, learning to keep my house clean, and also limiting desserts after dinner. This dish fits into that model perfectly!

Ingredient List

• Green apples
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Sweet potatoes
• Breakfast sausage
• Cheddar cheese
• Butter
• Salt & Pepper

How to make apple, sausage and sweet potato bake

1. Chop the apples and add them to a small bowl with the cinnamon and nutmeg and stir all together, set aside.
2. In a large skillet cook your breakfast sausage making sure to break it up as you go. You will want crumbled sausage at the end. When the sausage is all cooked transfer to a paper towel lined plate to drain and set aside
3. In the same skillet you will next add your chopped sweet potatoes and 2 Tbsp butter along with salt and pepper to taste. Cooking the sweet potatoes should take around 8-10 min or until fork tender.
4. Next grab a 9×13 baking dish and combine both the sausage and cooked sweet potatoes, set aside while you prepare the apples.
5. By this time the apples have had minute to marinade in the spices and have some juices come out, this is the perfect time to toss the apples into the empty skillet with the rest of the butter to get just slightly browned around 5 min.
6. Once the apples are cooked a touch toss those with the sausage and sweet potatoes in the baking dish, feel free to finish the dish off with some shredded cheese before you bake.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 min.

 

Need an alternative ingredient? Some ideas

• Sausage- Turkey sausage.  If you don’t want it to be breakfast you could use any ground meat, just make sure and season it accordingly.
• Sweet potatoes- yellow, red, or purple potatoes, yams. Essentially any starchy root vegetable.
• Green apples- Green apples are the best because of the tartness but any apple you have will work.
• Butter- vegan butter, ghee, avocado oil,

 

Everything baked in one dish, we love this and we have a few more:

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