Sausage, Apple & Red Cabbage Bake

This recipe is as pretty as it is tasty, as easy as it is fast to make. A cozy, sweet and savory, autumnal Sausage, Apple & Red Cabbage Bake. What a gorgeous pan of food, no? This is almost not even a recipe, though, if I’m being completely honest with you.

It’s one of those things that almost serves more as a nice idea – dinner inspiration – than some strict recipe sort of thing. I think the recipe steps do come in hand, however, in the cook time department. I’ll roadmap the order in which I like to roast the ingredients here, to achieve the best outcome, and to ensure that everything cooks as efficiently as possible.

Here’s the basic gist:

To make this Sausage, Apple & Red Cabbage Bake, we’ll start by giving the potatoes and cabbage a bit of a head start. You don’t have to serve potatoes with this dish. I just think they add a creamy, starchy component that is really nice. But let’s be real – I’m always down to sneak in a potato or two. Almost always, I’m doing this.

So anyway. Potatoes go in! They’re going to get their own sheet pan, because it keeps things easier, I think. Coat them generously in olive oil and season them also generously (we’re pretty generous people, obviously) with salt and pepper. Because like I always say:

An unseasoned potato is nothing. But, a well-seasoned potato is EVERYTHING.

The cabbage (and garlic if you wanna) will go in a roasting pan and will be covered in foil for the first little while. After these two veggies have had ample chance to cook (15 minutes), we’ll remove the foil from the cabbage and give the potatoes a flip. Then, we’ll nestle the sausages, apples and onions into the roasting pan with the cabbage and send it all back into the oven to cook until the sausages are done.

Should take about 20 minutes, give or take, depending on the thickness of your sausages.

Make sure you don’t forget the mustard! Any variety is pretty okay here – just use something that you’ve already got, or one that looks exciting in the store. There is a crazy wild world of mustards out there, just waiting to be used in this exact recipe. It’s the funniest thing …

Sausage, Apple & Red Cabbage Bake: Ingredients List

4 or 5 bratwurst or other similar sausage links

2 apples, seeded and roughly sliced into chunks (I like any red or golden delicious variety)

1 red onion, cut into thick slices/wedges

½ large red cabbage, cored and cut into 4 or 5 thick wedges

1 head of fresh garlic, halved cross-wise so the cloves are exposed

3 cups halved fingerling potatoes, amount is flexible (optional)

Olive oil, for cooking

Salt and pepper, as needed

Spicy brown or whole grain mustard, for serving

If you like the looks of this Sausage, Apple & Red Cabbage Bake, you might also enjoy:

Sheet Pan Chicken Tikka Masala with Crunchy Chickpeas & Cauliflower

Chipotle Brown Sugar Salmon and Potatoes

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