Sausage, Apples, and Noodles

This is more of a dessert than anything. This Pennsylvania-Dutch meal is a favorite at our family potlucks and will fill you up quickly. It also makes great leftovers for lunches.

Step: 1

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step: 2

Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling, stir in the egg noodles, and return to a boil. Cook the pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the pasta has cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 5 minutes. Drain well in a colander set in the sink.

Step: 3

Place a large skillet over medium-high heat; cook the sausages until completely cooked, 5 to 7 minutes.

Step: 4

Stir together the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.

Step: 5

Pour the melted butter into the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish; layer half of the cooked egg noodles into the bottom of the dish; top with half of the sausage slices and half of the apple slices; sprinkle about half of the cinnamon-sugar mix over the dish. Repeat layers with remaining noodles, sausage, apples, and cinnamon-sugar. Dot with the butter pieces.

Step: 6

Bake in the preheated oven until the apples are soft, 30 to 45 minutes.

Per Serving: 626 calories; protein 20.6g; carbohydrates 68g; fat 30.8g; cholesterol 96.3mg; sodium 1006.8mg.

One of most clear way to choose a side dish is to look at your main dish (pasta, chicken, seared tofu) and pick more different. If you’re making pasta, go for a simple vegetable . Making steak? Go for more light. If you’re making stir-fry with rice, it must not a best idea to also make a rice salad.

One make sure is also can make to cooking method . You don’t want to push more often your oven by making to do list three dishes at once in there, or be rounding four pans on the cooking items . But sometimes you can make a dish do double-duty .