A flavorful dish featuring sweet potatoes and squash with Italian sausage, perfect for entertaining or weeknight dinners. This recipe combines roasted vegetables with a delicious sauce made from olive oil, maple syrup, ginger, and thyme.
1: Preheat oven to 425°F.
2: To make the sauce, combine olive oil, maple syrup, fresh ginger, fresh thyme, and salt in a small bowl and whisk well.
3: Add 1 tbsp olive oil to a large skillet over medium heat.
4: Remove the raw sausage from casing and break it into bite-sized pieces.
5: Brown the sausage on all sides, then remove from the pan and set aside.
6: Add the sweet potatoes to a baking sheet or large baking dish and pour the sauce over the top.
7: Toss the sweet potatoes in the sauce until fully coated, then roast for 20 minutes.
8: Remove from the oven and add the onions and squash to the baking dish, tossing the veggies in the sauce again.
9: Flip the sweet potatoes and return to oven for another 20 minutes.
10: Remove from oven, add in the sausage and toss everything together in the sauce.
11: Flip the veggies then return to oven for a final 20 minutes of cooking for a total of 60 minutes.
