📋 Sausage and Apple Rice

apple rice with sausage on a white plate with pine cones in the background

This Gluten-free Sausage & Apple Rice with dehydrated/dried apples, sage, wild rice, spinach and pine nuts is a great fall dish and perfect for a Thanksgiving or holiday side dish @7 WW points on the blue plan per serving!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine North American

Keyword apple rice, sage, sausage

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 210kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

6 fresh breakfast sausage links chopped into ¼ inch circles
1 cup finely chopped dried/dehydrated apples
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
1 ½ cups fresh baby spinach washed and dried
2 cups dry brown rice/wild rice blend cook as per package directions
Chicken stock or vegetable stock amount according to package direction of rice
½ cup pine nuts
1 teaspoon olive oil

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Make the rice: Cook rice according to package directions, but use chicken stock or vegetable stock in place of water.
Cook sausage in a frying pan on stove top over medium heat until no longer pink and set aside.
Heat a frying pan on medium high heat. Add 1 teaspoon of olive oil and the pine nuts. Toast, for a minute or so, stirring, then add sage and spinach. Continue to stir until spinach is soft and pine nuts are fragrant. Remove the mixture and stir into rice.
Stir in chopped dried apples and sausage into the rice and serve warm.

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Nutrition Facts

📋 Sausage and Apple Rice

Amount Per Serving

Calories 210 Calories from Fat 90

% Daily Value*

Fat 10g15%

Saturated Fat 1g6%

Cholesterol 33mg11%

Sodium 149mg6%

Potassium 283mg8%

Carbohydrates 24g8%

Fiber 3g13%

Sugar 7g8%

Protein 7g14%

Vitamin A 635IU13%

Vitamin C 2.7mg3%

Calcium 50mg5%

Iron 1.9mg11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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