Allspiced-Up Maple Glazed Sausage and Pear Skillet Salad

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Allspiced-Up Maple Glazed Sausage and Pear Skillet Salad

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This healthy and hearty warm salad is filled with the flavors of fall! Entry from Roxanne Chan in the “Think Outside the Griddle” recipe contest.

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Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 8 ounces fully cooked Italian chicken sausage links, sliced
  • 1 cup diced peeled winter pear
  • 1/2 cup sliced carrots
  • 1/4 cup chopped sweet onion
  • 1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
  • 1/2 tsp ground allspice
  • 2 Tbsp lime juice
  • 2 Tbsp pure maple syrup
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
  • 4 cups mixed greens, cut into julienne strips
  • 1/4 cup snipped mint
  • Garnish- pumpkin seeds

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in a large skillet. Saute the sausage slices, pear, carrot, onion, bell pepper for 3 minutes. Mix together the allspice, lime juice, maple syrup, salt and pepper till well blended; add to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes. Remove the skillet from the heat and stir in the greens and mint to evenly distribute and coat with the maple syrup glaze. Serve immediately with pumpkin seed garnish.

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