Welp, the calendar has turned to September, which implies I’ve two issues on my thoughts…
…fast, no-nonsense back-to-school dinners, and apples. Fortunate for all of us, this week’s entry within the 5-Ingredient Dinner collection checks each packing containers. Along with the meal’s brief ingredient record, simply have a look at the recipe — it wants just one pan, and the directions are really easy it may in all probability slot in a textual content. As for the apples! As a result of this can be a five-ingredient problem, I typically search for store-bought merchandise that work extra time within the taste division — which is why you need to search out chicken-apple sausages right here. The sweetness of the apple with the cabbage is precisely what I crave this time of yr. In the event you can’t discover apples in your sausage, you need to in fact be at liberty to make use of common sausages (pork, rooster, plant-forward), and simply throw in a handful of sliced, peeled Honeycrisp or Galas alongside the cabbage. I gained’t inform the 5-Ingredient Police.
Hen-Apple Sausage with Cabbage and Onions
Do your finest to select up raw chicken-apple sausages from the butcher. If it’s a must to use the smoked pre-cooked type (like Applegate or Aidell’s) then no have to simmer the sausages for these final 10 minutes. Serves 4
3 tablespoons olive oil*
5-8 hyperlinks chicken-apple sausage (or 1 1/4 to three kilos, relying in your diners’ appetites; we prepare dinner about 1 1/2 hyperlinks, or 6 ounces per diner in our home)
2 massive onions, sliced
kosher salt and freshly floor black pepper*
1 1/4 kilos cabbage, ideally savoy or Napa, sliced (not shredded, they shrink when cooked, and also you need them to have some physique)
1 1/4 – 1 1/2 cups rooster broth
2-3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar, plus extra to style
Elective: Recent dill, chopped
Add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil to a big skillet set over medium-high warmth. Add the sausage hyperlinks and brown on each facet, about 6 minutes complete. (You wouldn’t have to prepare dinner them via.) Take away the sausages to a plate. Flip warmth all the way down to medium, then add the onions, salt and pepper. Cook dinner 10 minutes, stirring often, till they soften and begin to flip gold.
Add the cabbage and the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil. It can really feel like a lot of cabbage, but it surely actually does prepare dinner down, so be affected person. Folding it in with the onions helps velocity up the method. Cook dinner one other 10 minutes, then nestle the sausages into the cabbage-onion combination, and pour within the broth, so it comes about half manner up every sausage. Decrease warmth to a simmer, cowl, and prepare dinner one other 10 minutes till sausages are cooked via.
Take away the sausages to serving bowls, then stir in apple cider vinegar into the cabbage-onion combination. Style and add as much as one other tablespoon if you’d like extra brightness. Serve greens alongside the sausage. High with dill, if utilizing.
* We aren’t counting olive oil, salt, or pepper within the ingredient complete.
P.S. Extra five-ingredient dinners, and my favourite no-recipe dinners for fall.
