Sheet Pan Meals: Sausage + Veggie
Sheet pan meals are one of my favorite simple family dinners. One pan to cook. One pan to clean. Win. Win. Actually I always have two pans in the oven. One pan for dinner, and the other pan for easy meal prep during the week.
You can get creative with your sheet pan dinner, or keep it simple. Generally speaking in our household, there is a bit of protein, surrounded by a whole lot of vegetables. This particular sheet pan dinner combines the kids favorite sausage with lots of roasted veggies, placed on top of a base of quinoa. Leftovers are used atop salads for lunch, gluten-free noodles for kids school lunch, or just as a yummy breakfast bowl.
Not only does everything roast on one sheet pan, but in doing so they all share their flavors with each other and produce a super flavorful family dinner. The kids love Organic Chicken Apple Sausage. It is pre-cooked sausage gets sliced up and tossed together with a load of healthy vegetables. Spray it with your oil of choice, sprinkle salt and pepper, and let it all work it’s magic together in the oven. While it roasts, you have time to play a board game with the kids, lounge with a glass of wine, or simply stare out the window!
Once it’s ready, you can eat it simply served up in a bowl, or include your family’s favorite healthy buddha bowl base {quinoa, brown rice, fresh greens, etc}. Stop there or add even more flavor with a drizzle of yummy sauce. Alex and I live for the opportunity to top anything with nutritional yeast. We call it magic dust! I will forever believe in magic, in any form. And this easy family sheet pan dinner is pure magic. It’s simple and quick, and yet feels thoughtful and fulfilling.
