Showing posts with label Applesauce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Applesauce. Show all posts

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Warm Sweet Potato, Apple, and Sausage Salad

Ingredients:

  • 1  pound  sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces (3 cups)
  • 1  small  onion, cut into thin wedges

  • 2  tablespoons  margarine or butter
  • 1  pound  cooked smoked turkey sausage, cut diagonally into 1/2-inch-thick slices
  • 2  medium  cooking apples, cut into wedges
  • 1/2  cup  bottled sweet-and-sour sauce
  • 1/2  teaspoon  caraway seed
  • 6  cups  torn fresh spinach
Directions:
In a large skillet cook sweet potatoes and onion in margarine over medium heat about 10 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally.
Stir in sausage, apples, sweet-and-sour sauce, and caraway seed. Cook, covered, over medium heat about 3 minutes or until apples are tender and sausage is heated through, stirring occasionally. (If mixture seems thick, add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, to make desired consistency.)
Place spinach on a large serving platter. Top with sweet potato mixture.

Pumpkin Soup (w/ bacon)

Ingredients:

  • 2  slices  bacon, chopped
  • 1    onion, chopped
  • 1  29-ounce  can pumpkin or home-made pumpkin "slush"
  • 3-1/2  cups  low-sodium chicken broth
  • 1  cup  applesauce
  • 2  tsp.  ground ginger
  • 1/2  cup  light sour cream
  •     salt
  •     pepper
Directions:
Saute 2 slices chopped bacon and 1 chopped onion; drain fat.
Add one 29-ounce can pumpkin, 3-1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth, 1 cup applesauce and 2 tsp. ground ginger.
Add salt and pepper; bring to boil. Simmer.
Add 1/2 cup light sour cream. Makes 4 servings.