Sausage & Sweet Potato Tray Bake

This Sausage and Sweet Potato Tray Bake is an easy weeknight, one pan dinner that will bring a rainbow of flavors to the table. With bell pepper, red onion, and mustard, this recipe will brighten up your meal for sure.

Color magick is so easy and accessible. It's perfect for low-key witchcraft, especially if you're still in the broom closet. There's real science to support the effects of color on our mood, but you don't need to understand wavelengths or have a degree in psychology to to its power. You just know that certain colors make you feel a certain way, and that's what makes it magical.

As a kitchen witch, I experience a lot of brown. From beige to deep chocolate brown, it's certainly a color with a bit of nuance, but it's not super inspiring. Yes, it may give you a sense of comfort and grounding, but it's also kind of boring. In fact, beife is actually synonymous with dull. So when I get to work with bright colors in my food, it always gives me a boost of energy.

What makes this Sausage & Sweet Potato Tray Bake so awesome?

This Sausage & Sweet Potato Tray Bake is one of the most colorful recipes I've made in a while. What I love about this is that everything just gets chopped up, chucked in a pan, and roasted in the oven all at once. It's such an easy, effortless recipe. But with all that ease, there's still a complexity of flavor, and certainly plenty of beautiful color.

We're working with red onion, whatever color of bell pepper you can get your hands on or love the most, and bright orange sweet potatoes. You can skip the pop of green from the fresh parsley, but I think it really takes the whole thing up a notch. Of course, the star of the show is the bacon-wrapped sausages. Use your favorite sausage here, naturally.

Magical Properties of Bell Peppers

Bell peppers, full of seeds, carry the energy of love, prosperity and creativity. The colorful veggies are tied to the elements of earth and fire as well as the Sun and Venus. But what makes them cool is that you can add color magic to your spell when working with bell peppers. Use green for abundance, red for love, orange or yellow for creativity. You can also incorporate your intuitive associations with the colors. (Source: The Kitchen Witch's Guide to Healing & Self-Care by Maggie Haseman)

For more on the magical properties of the ingredients in this recipe, including sweet potatoes, check the Kitchen Magick page.

Ingredients

Here's everything you'll need to make this recipe. All the details are in the recipe card below.

• Honey
• Mustard - your favorite variety, in the UK, I use yellow American mustard, in the US, I'd use Dijon
• Sausages - 6-8 of your favorite pork sausages
• Bacon - streaky bacon if you're in the UK
• Bell pepper - 2 in your favorite colors
• Onion - red is ideal
• Sweet potatoes - you could also use frozen, pre-chopped sweet potatoes
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• Fresh parsley - optional but awesome

Tips for making this Sausage & Sweet Potato Tray Bake

This is almost too simple. You're gonna make some honey mustard by whisking together, you guessed it, honey and mustard. Then you're going to wrap your sausages in bacon (I'm not messing around). Then chop all your veggies roughly and scatter them in your baking dish. Give all of this a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and pepper and give it a toss with your hands. Nestle your sausages sausages in amongst your veggies, then drizzle the honey mustard over the whole thing.

Then all that's left to do is pop it in the oven while you get on with your life for half an hour. How easy is that? If you really wanted to plan ahead, you could prep everything in the morning or chop all your veg when you're doing your meal prep at the start of the week. Please know that I am never that organized, and it's easy enough that you don't need to be. As long as you have all the ingredients, this dish is a beautiful breeze.

This Sausage & Sweet Potato Tray Bake is definitely going to brighten up your dinner table. It's gonna be awesome.

Looking for more awesome easy dinner recipes? Try this Chicken & Chorizo Tray Bake or this one-pot Orzo Pasta with Bacon & Peas.

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Recipe slightly adapted from Tesco Magazine.

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