A great side dish, or a simple sausage and sweet potato main dish, all done in your slow cooker! Toss a package of prewashed salad greens with your favorite dressing, and dinner is served.
Slow-Cooker Sweet Potatoes and Sausage
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 2 hr 55 min
- Servings 8
- Ingredients 6
Ingredients
- 12 oz bulk pork sausage, thawed if frozen
- 2 large leeks, sliced (about 2 cups)
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 3 lb dark orange sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/4-inch slices (8 cups)
- 1 cup freshly shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup apple juice or chicken broth
Instructions
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Step1Spray 4- to 4 1/2-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. In 10-inch skillet, cook sausage over medium-high heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in leeks and thyme.
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Step2In slow cooker, layer half the sweet potatoes, sausage mixture and cheese. Repeat with remaining sweet potatoes and sausage mixture. Pour apple juice over top; sprinkle with remaining cheese.
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Step3Cover; cook on High heat setting 2 1/2 to 3 hours or until sweet potatoes are tender.
Nutrition
260
Calories
9g
Total Fat
11g
Protein
31g
Total Carbohydrate
7g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 260
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 9g
- 15%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 21%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 450mg
- 19%
- Potassium
- 570mg
- 16%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 31g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 4g
- 18%
- Sugars
- 7g
- Protein
- 11g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 390%
- 390%
- Vitamin C
- 6%
- 6%
- Calcium
- 25%
- 25%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 2 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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