Allspiced-Up Maple Glazed Sausage and Pear Skillet Salad

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.