Chicken Sausage Meal

January 9, 2014

By Anna Varriano

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This dinner was inspired by pastured chicken sausage and home-made lacto-fermented sauerkraut thanks to Ali and Glenn of Swallowtail Farm, Perth ON! www.swallowtailfarm.ca. This recipe makes 2-3 servings.

What You’ll Need

• 1 sweet potato
• 3 mild Italian chicken sausages
• Big bunch of parsley
• 4 tablespoon olive oil
• Water
• Big bunch of kale
• 2 cloves of coarsely chopped garlic
• 1 tomato
• Optional: lacto-fermented sauerkraut

Step 1: Cooking the sausages and sweet potato

I peeled and cut up the sweet potato and the sausages, chopped up a big bunch of parsley from the garden, put it all in a baking dish, and drizzled about 2 TBSP of olive oil over all of it, then seasoned with salt and pepper.

Tossed it all together until sausages and sweet potatoes were nicely coated with the oil, parsley, and seasoning. Put a little bit of water in the baking dish, then covered it and roasted it in a 350 degree oven for about 35 minutes (until sausage was browned and sweet potatoes were tender). I uncovered it about 1/2 way through. While that was cooking, I prepared the kale.

Step 2: Cooking the kale

First, I put the coarsely chopped garlic in a pan with about 2 TBSP of olive oil and about 4 TBSP of water.

Then I chopped up a fresh tomato from the garden and mixed it in. Turned the heat to low and just let all the flavours blend for about 5 minutes. Smelled amazing!

Chopped up a big bunch of kale and put it on top of the tomato/garlic/olive oil mixture (stray parsley leaf!). Looks like a lot of kale, but it cooks down!

Covered it all up with a lid and put it on medium-low heat for a few minutes. Mixed it all up and covered it again for a few more minutes, until kale was tender. Make sure you don’t run out of water! Add a bit more if you need to.

Step 3: Serving

Dinner is served, with a few heaping tablespoons of lacto-fermented sauerkraut (loaded with healthy probiotics – a great digestive aid). If you’re ever in the Perth area, make sure you stop by Swallowtail Farm. Free range eggs, pastured poultry, seasonal fruit and veggies, lacto-fermented sauerkraut, jams, jellies, beautiful pottery, and lots more. So thrilled to have discovered this wonderful farm! www.SwallowtailFarm.ca

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