Festive Fall Chili With Breakfast Sausage Apples Recipes

FALL CHICKEN-APPLE SAUSAGE SKILLET

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage slices and cook until browned, about 5 minutes. Remove sausage and set aside.
• Add sweet potatoes and half the water to the skillet; boil for 5 minutes. Stir in the sausage, apples, remaining water, sugar, and cinnamon. Season with salt and pepper; reduce heat to medium. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are soft, 10 to 15 minutes. Serve hot.

SPICED APPLE CHILI

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook and crumble beef with onion over medium-high heat until beef is no longer pink, 5-7 minutes; drain., Add tomato paste, spices and garlic; cook and stir over medium heat 5 minutes. Stir in vinegar and broth until blended. Add remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Simmer, covered, until apples are tender and flavors are blended, about 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve with toppings as desired. Freeze option: Freeze cooled chili in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally.

SAUSAGE CHILI

Steps:

• In large saucepan, cook sausage and onions over medium high heat, stirring frequently until meat is thoroughly cooked and no longer pink.
• Add remaining ingredients; bring to a boil.
• Cover and reduce heat to low; simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. If you are in a hurry and don't want to wait for it to thicken up, use the Masa from the 2 Alarm box.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Makes 6-8 servings.

BREAKFAST CAKE WITH SAUSAGE AND APPLES

Steps:

• Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add sausage links and cook, turning often, until cooked through and browned, 12 to 16 minutes. Remove from the heat and cut links into 1/2-inch pieces.
• While the sausages are cooking, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray the bottom, sides, and center of a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with nonstick spray.
• Open cinnamon rolls and set frosting packages aside. Separate rolls and layer, with sides touching, to completely cover the bottom, sides, and center of the pan. Reserve several rolls for the top.
• Dump apple pie filling into a bowl. Use 2 knives and cut apples in opposite directions (crisscross) into 1/2-inch pieces. Add sausage slices, cinnamon, and allspice; gently stir until blended, being careful not to break up the apples any more. Spoon apple-sausage mixture into the cinnamon roll-lined pan, distributing it evenly around the pan. Lay cinnamon rolls on top to completely seal the apple mixture inside the rolls. You may not use all of the rolls.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cinnamon rolls are brown, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes.
• While the cake is cooling, warm icing packets in hot water. Drizzle icing over top of the cake. Cut into slices and serve.

SAUSAGE & APPLE BREAKFAST CASSEROLE

Steps:

• In large skillet, simmer sausage links in approx 1/2 inch of water for 10 minutes, remove and put sausage in large oven proof dish.
• Melt 1 tblsp of butter in the skillet and stir fry apple chunks.
• Remove apples and mix with sausages.
• Add cinnamon and sugar on top of sausages and apples.
• Dot with remaining butter.
• Cover and bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees.
• Uncover and continue to bake for 15 more minutes.
• You can reduce cooking time if you need to.

FESTIVE FALL CHILI WITH BREAKFAST SAUSAGE & APPLES

Steps:

• Soak kidney beans overnight. Drain, cover with water and cook over low heat until the skin begins to break but the beans are still slightly hard. Drain beans reserving 2 cups of the liquid. In a large, heavy pot, brown breakfast sausage breaking into 1" pieces. When the sausage is pink, add the chopped onion. Continue to brown the sausage; drain off any fat. Add to the pot, the garlic, apples, sugar, chili powder, mustard, tomato sauce, reserved bean liquid, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally for 60-75 minutes or until apples are softened and the chili is thick. Serve with a dollop of sour cream.