Baked White Beans and Sausage With Sage
- Total Time
- 1 hour
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Ingredients
- 4sweet Italian pork sausages (about 1 pound)
- 2whole garlic cloves (do not peel)
- 2teaspoons olive oil
- 2fresh sage leaves
- 2(15-ounce) cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
- ¾cup unsweetened apple juice
- Kosher salt and black pepper
Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)
617 calories; 31 grams fat; 9 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 13 grams monounsaturated fat; 6 grams polyunsaturated fat; 53 grams carbohydrates; 11 grams dietary fiber; 6 grams sugars; 33 grams protein; 1563 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Heat the oven to 375 degrees. In a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, prick the sausages all over with a fork. Add the garlic, drizzle with the olive oil and toss to coat. Bake until the sausages start to brown on top, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Step 2
Put on your oven mitts, take the roasting pan out of the oven and set it on a heatproof surface. Using tongs, carefully turn the sausages over. (The sausages will brown on the other side when they go back into the oven.)
- Step 3
Tear the sage leaves into little pieces and add them to the sausages along with the drained beans and apple juice. Give the bean mixture a stir.
- Step 4
Wearing your oven mitts, put the roasting pan back in the oven and bake until the bean mixture is warmed, about 20 minutes.
- Step 5
Put on your oven mitts one last time to remove the roasting pan from the oven. To serve, carefully stir everything together using a wooden spoon, and add a little salt and pepper to taste.
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Hi All! Just popping in to say that you should use a 9-by-13 baking dish or similar for this (not a sheet pan). You want a deeper, narrower dish for this recipe so you end up with lots of creamy, brothy beans.
Nothing'll destroy a kids health like 3 tablespoons of unsweetened apple juice!
It's unsweetened apple juice, and it creates a salty-sweet flavor profile that works for palates of all ages (this recipe actually came from a cookbook for adults). It's the same reason we like pork and apples together. If you want to leave it out, however, go to it! I'm sure it would be delicious that way as well.
I am not a child anymore :( but still love to put on my oven mitts cook this recipe. A few changes I make that I think work well: Cook in a deeper 9x13” baking dish. Instead of apple juice, put an entire apple in the food processor and then stir the apple mush in with the beans before spreading over the sausages. Add salt to the beans!! Use lots of fresh sage, more than 2 leaves- like 15 leaves. Finish with a broil to toast the beans and sausage tops.
I use my Breville convection oven for recipes like this…..having said that, i added a few baby white potatoes with the sausages and then squeezed the garlic into the beans and about 2 min before the end added a big handful of spinach to the pan….a bit dry but a good dinner for 2
Added 1.5 cups rinsed sauerkraut and about 2 tablespoons of honey mustard when I added the beans. Lowered heat to 350 degrees and baked 35-40 minutes. Really good, will make again.