Sausage and Bean Casserole
If you have around 45 minutes to spend in the kitchen, Sausage and Bean Casserole might be an amazing dairy free recipe to try. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains around 22g of protein, 5g of fat, and a total of 265 calories. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Autumn will be even more special with this recipe. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. If you have cannellini beans beans, thyme, turkey sausage, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the brown sugar you could follow this main course with the Brown-sugar Pound Cupcakes With Brown-butter Glaze as a dessert.
Instructions
Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray.
Add onion and turkey sausage to pan; saut for 5 minutes or until browned.
Add garlic, and saut for 2 minutes. Stir in chicken broth, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Stir in 2 tablespoons brown sugar, tomato paste, dried thyme, freshly ground black pepper, cannellini beans, and bay leaf.
Add ground red pepper, if desired. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Place bread in a food processor, and pulse 10 times or until coarse crumbs measure 1 1/2 cups.
Sprinkle breadcrumbs evenly over bean mixture, and lightly coat with cooking spray.
Bake at 375 for 15 minutes or until browned. Discard bay leaf.