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by Ed

I’ll confess: while Robin has been a vocal sheet pan dinner advocate for years, I’m late to the sheet pan meal party. She often makes meals from our best healthy sheet pan dinners collection, but these genius meals were never part of my cooking repertoire. Even when she taught the kids and they make our favourite One-Pan Chicken Fajitas in Oven at least twice a month, I had never made a sheet pan meal myself.

And now I wonder why!

This One Pan Healthy Sausage and Veggies dinner will make you a convert too. It’s simple to make and tastes absolutely delicious.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies sheet pan dinner

After our first time making it, we were sold – mostly because the kids found things to love in it- but also because it can take stretch about four sausages into a meal that feeds a family (with teenagers!) and still has leftovers. I don’t know about you, but personally, I can devour a couple of sausages on my own if we’re just grilling them up and serving on rolls.

And that’s where we get the ‘Healthy‘, in our Healthy Sheet Pan Sausage and Veggies name. When you can use less meat and still get a hearty, complete meal that doesn’t leave anyone feeling shortchanged, you get a diet – and a budget – win.

Plus you’ll get to use all those root veggies that you have and aren’t sure what to do with: beets, parsnips, sweet potato – they all go from ho-hum sides to co-stars in this spectacular oven-roasted medley

Preparation is very easy. It involves some chopping and cubing, but once that is done, it basically cooks untouched save a simple stir and sausage slice midway through. I’ll take a meal anytime that is front-end prep busy but pays time dividends later when I can walk away from the kitchen for 20-30 minutes while it cooks.

In addition to being easy, this sausage and veggies sheet pan meal is also really flexible.

Pick whatever sausage you want:

Vegan sausage,
Turkey sausage,
Brats for Octoberfest,
Spicy Italian or
Chorizo if you want to kick it up –
I’ve even used precooked-but-still-frozen smokies and it turned out great.

Missing one of the veggies on our list? Tag team in some plain spuds or peeled squash and get a one pan sausage with veggies and potatoes – sure to please a crowd.

And if you are having a bit crowd over, this meal can become an amazing side dish that guests will be having seconds and thirds of.

The list of flex options goes on.

So give our go-to sheet pan dinner a test drive. Your root veggies will thank you and so will the people at your table.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies sheet pan meal

Healthy Sheet Pan Sausage and Veggies Ingredients

1-2 parsnips
1-2 beets
2-3 carrots
1-2 apples
1 medium-large cooking onion
1 medium sweet potato
4-5 sausages (can be frozen or thawed)
2 Tbsp Olive or Canola Oil
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dry basil
½ tsp dry rosemary
½ tsp coarse salt

Supplies

A very large baking pan: 17 X 13 or larger (This one is perfect and 62% off right now!)
Parchment paper

One Pan Healthy Sausage and Veggies Instructions:

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-13 — Preheat the oven to 400F.

Line a 17X13 (or larger if you have it) baking sheet with parchment paper.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-14 — Wash and scrub your veggies.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-15 — Dice into ½-¾ inch pieces.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-16 — Spread over the baking sheet.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-17 — Core the apple. Peel the onion and the sweet potato.

Dice them as you did the other veggies above and spread over baking sheet as well.

Your baking sheet is likely getting very full.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-18 — Drizzle oil evenly over veggies & add seasonings.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-19 — Fit 4-5 sausages into the gaps between veggies (they can sit on top of them a bit if needed).

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-20 — Transfer sheet to oven and bake for 25 minutes.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-21 — Remove baking sheet from oven and transfer sausages to a meat cutting board.

Diagonally cut sausages at a 45-degree angle into ½ inch pieces.

one pan healthy sausage and veggies-22 — Return the sausage pieces to the baking sheet and mix/stir all the veggies and sausages. Return baking sheet to oven for 15-20 mins.