Sausage with Roasted Cabbage and Butternut Squash Puree

Roasting cabbage, much like sprouts and squash, allows the vegetable to cook slowly, softening even it’s tightly wrapped inner leaves. It caramelizes the outside and creates a gentle crunch that brings for flavors you never knew the same thing used for kraut could have. It’s not bitter or harsh. It’s just a little honeyed with a rich punch. It is perfection and it will see many many side dishes for my comfort food season.

Ingredients

• 1/2 head of green cabbage
• 1 butternut squash
• 2 tbs olive oil
• salt and pepper
• 1 lbs sugar-free apple sausage
• 1/3 cup mayo
• 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
• 1 teas coconut aminos
• 1 teas ghee
• Fresh Thyme or Caraway seeds for garnish.

Recipe

1. Preheat the oven to 450.
2. Slice the cabbage into wedges. Arrange in the center of a large foil lined baking tray.
3. Core, remove seeds and cut the butternut squash in half. Arrange on either side of the cabbage.
4. Drizzle olive oil over the cabbage and squash. Sprinkle with salt. Bake for 20 minutes; Flip the cabbage, nestle the sausages into the pan and roast for 20 minutes longer.
5. Meanwhile, whisk the mustard, mayo, coconut aminos, salt and pepper, with the melted ghee in a small bowl to make the sauce.
6. Carefully scoop the roasted squash from the skin and puree with ghee.
7. Serve the cabbage wedges and sausages over the butternut squash with a drizzle of the mustard sauce and fresh thyme or toasted caraway seeds.

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