Autumn Apple and Sausage Couscous

Autumn Apple and Sausage Couscous is an easy dinner idea that includes several fall flavors, as well as Hillshire Farm Chicken Apple Smoked Sausages.

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For this Autumn Apple and Sausage Couscous, I’m using one of my favorite Hillshire Farm products. It’s their Gourmet Creations Premium Smoked Sausages. I like all of the flavors, but one that I love is the Hillshire Farm Gourmet Creations Chicken Apple with Gouda Cheese Chicken Sausages, which is particularly great in the Autumn months.

To make your Autumn Apple & Sausage Couscous, you will begin by slicing and pan frying one package of the Hillshire Farm Gourmet Creations Chicken Apple. Since these are already fully cooked, they brown up fairly quickly. Each slice gets flipped over so the other side can brown and then they are set aside while the rest of the ingredients are prepared.

Next, you’ll slice up two granny smith apples and 1 medium onion. I love having apples in main dish recipes in the fall. The apple and the onions are fried up in a pan with a bit of butter. Give the apples a squeeze of some lemon juice too. After they become tender and beginning to brown, remove them from the pan and set them aside with the sausages. You will also toast pecans, which give a wonderful crunch to this recipe.

Of course, you can’t have a couscous recipe without couscous.  If you have never cooked couscous, rest assured that it’s easy — even easier than rice. I buy a box of it in the area near the rice at the grocery store. Follow the directions the package you buy and it will turn out perfect. And as my kids will even tell you: “it’s so nice, you have to say it twice”.

Once the couscous is finished, you are ready to toss everything together. Mix in the Hillshire Farm sausage, apples & onions, toasted pecans, and dried cranberries. Season with some salt and pepper and it’s ready to be served!

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Autumn Apple and Sausage Couscous

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• Author: Brandie Valenzuela

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Autumn Apple and Sausage Couscous is an easy dinner idea that includes several fall flavors, as well as Hillshire Farm Chicken Apple Smoked Sausages.

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Ingredients

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• 1 12- ounce package Hillshire Farm Gourmet Creations Chicken Apple Sausage (sliced)
• 1–2 tablespoons butter
• 2 granny smith apples (cored and sliced)
• 1 medium onion (chopped)
• 1 lemon or a splash of bottled lemon juice
• 5 cups cooked couscous
• 3/4 cup dried & sweetened cranberries
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans

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Instructions

1. In a frying pan over medium heat, cook sausage slices. Flip slices over to allow each side to brown. When each side is browned, remove sausage from pan to a bowl or plate.
2. In the same frying pan, melt butter. Cook apples and onions in butter over medium heat. Squeeze lemon over apples or give a splash with bottle lemon juice. Cook until apples and onions are becoming tender and slightly browned. Set aside with sausages.
3. In an ungreased skillet, add chopped pecans and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cook until pecans are golden brown. Remove from heat.
4. Combine the sausage, apples, onions, cranberries and pecans with the couscous. Season with salt and pepper. Serve!

Notes

Recipe adapted from Hillshire Farm Gourmet Creations Chicken Apple packaging

• Category: Main Dish
• Method: Stove Top
• Cuisine: American

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If you want even more recipes for delicious meals, you can find lots of them on the Hillshire Farm website. Be sure to check them out and don’t forget to sign up on the Safeway “Just For U” website and add the Hillsire Farm Buy 3, Save 3 deal to your card.

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