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apple sweet potato hash with sausage recipe

Apple Sweet Potato Hash with Greens and Sausage

by From Scratch Farmstead September 23, 2023

The combination of flavors in this apple sweet potato hash with greens and sausage is second to none! Perfect for a quick and easy weekday meal but also a holiday brunch or gathering with friends!

With only a handful of basic ingredients, sweet potato apple hash is a frequently requested favorite in our home!

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Perfect Fall Flavors

As soon as the apples begin to ripen on our trees, this recipe immediately comes to mind. The combination of cinnamon with sweet potatoes and apples paired with the sausage is the most delicious blend of sweet and savory.

We love this time of the year on our homestead because almost all of our meals come from just harvested fruits and veggies. This sweet potato apple hash is no exception. Although, this recipe has been a favorite in our home long before we had a homestead or were growing our own food, it makes it all the better with freshly picked produce!

While we’ve tried so many different combinations of hashes and stir fries, we keep coming back to this hash as our favorite!

bowl of apple sweet potato hash with egg on top

Simple, Nutritious, and Delicious

When it comes to preparing meals for our family, my criteria boil down to simple, nutritious, and delicious. Sweet potato apple hash with sausage fits the bill.

As a busy family with young kids, life feels about as full as full can be. But as we’ve delved down this from scratch, homestead life, time and time again we realize how just a few homegrown, flavor filled raw ingredients cooked together make the absolute best meals.

Ingredients in Apple Sweet Potato Hash with Sausage

Apples – We picked Cortland apples straight off of our tree but any fresh eating or cooking variety of apple will work well in the recipe. We like to dice the apples in small chunks so that they incorporate in small bits throughout the hash.

Sweet Potatoes – Fresh, orange sweet potatoes are our favorite in this hash. However, you could definitely substitute winter squash or carrots for the sweet potatoes in the recipe. White potatoes are delicious too, it just gives the dish a significantly different flavor profile.

Onions – No hash is complete without onion in my opinion; adding the perfect flavor to compliment the sweet potatoes and apple. I’d definitely favor dicing a real onion for both the taste and texture that it adds and not opting for onion powder.

Greens – When we began making this recipe several years ago, I always used spinach in my sweet potato apple hash. Spinach has such a mild flavor and texture that it goes really well. Since moving onto our homestead, we have an abundance of nettle. Now, nettle is our go-to green with this hash. It cooks down and tastes very similar to spinach. Alternately, you could add kale or a more bitter green but it will alter the taste and stand out more in the dish than spinach or nettle does.

Sausage – We love to use a maple sage breakfast sausage in this sweet potato apple hash. It’s important to check the ingredient label on the sausage you purchase from your local store, farm or butcher. Sausage often has nasty ingredients such as corn syrup solids, “natural flavorings”, or other sugar derivatives. If you can’t find a solid sausage option, it’s surprisingly easy to make yourself! With ground pork and a bit of sage, maple syrup, and a few other simple ingredients, you can make your own breakfast sausage in no time.

If sausage isn’t your jam, you could always substitute bacon, turkey sausage, or even chicken or salmon.

apple sweet potato hash with sausage ingredients

Cinnamon – Cinnamon is completely optional in this recipe but I love the flavor it brings out! There’s just something about apples, sweet potatoes, and cinnamon that were made for each other! You can also feel free to experiment with adding other herbs.

Equipment Used

Roasting Pans – These 9×13 Pyrex pan s work perfectly for this

Large Skillet – We love our 12” Cast iron pan

How to Make Apple Sweet Potato Hash with Greens and Sausage

This recipe easily comes together in less than an hour. It also works great to make in advance and reheat when you are ready!

Start by chopping your sweet potatoes in roughly ½ inch chunks.

pans of sweet potatoes to roast for hash — Pans of diced sweet potatoes ready to be roasted.

Roast them in a single layer on a greased pan in the oven at 450°F for 25 minutes.

While sweet potatoes are cooking, dice onion.

Sauté onion over medium to high heat in a large skillet (we prefer a 12” cast iron pan) with a heat stable cooking fat of choice (we like to use lard for this).

Once onion is fragrant, about 2-3 minutes, add your breakfast sausage.

Cook onion and sausage together until onion is fully cooked and sausage in browned.

Once sweet potatoes are fork tender, remove from oven and add them to the skillet of onion and sausage. Mix together.

Then add a diced apple and greens.

adding sweet potatoes to hash — Adding roasted sweet potatoes to onions and sausage.

adding nettle greens to hash — Adding roasted sweet potatoes to onions and sausage.

Sprinkle with cinnamon and salt and pepper to taste.

Serve as is or with an over easy egg on top!

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I scale this recipe?

Absolutely! Feel free to scale up or down as needed. We always make sure we have plenty for leftovers when we make it!

What substitutions can I make?

In the recipe section above, I noted the substitutions that can be made with each specific ingredient in this recipe. While we love the recipe exactly as it is written here, feel free to experiment.

Can I make sweet potato apple hash in advance?

Yes! This sweet potato apple hash with greens and sausage is like a good soup in that it only gets better with a day or two of aging as the flavors have a chance to meld together even more. If you plan to top your hash with eggs, wait until serving to cook those.

How do I reheat this recipe?

To reheat, we put in an oven safe container and reheat in the oven at 350°F for 20 minutes or so until warmed through.

How long will leftovers last?

Eat any remaining sweet potato apple hash within 5 days.

How should I serve this recipe?

We love to top this hash with an egg or two and serve it as an entrée for dinner. It would also make a great breakfast or brunch served this way. If served without the egg, you could also serve this sweet potato apple hash with sausage as a gourmet side dish.

Apple Sweet Potato Hash with Sausage Recipe

Serves 6-8

Ingredients:

3 medium to large sweet potatoes, chopped into 1/2” chunks
1 large onion, diced
1 apple, diced
2-3 cups of spinach (or greens of choice)
1 pound sausage
1 tsp cinnamon
salt and pepper to taste

pan of sausage apple sweet potato hash with eggs

Directions:

1. Roast sweet potatoes at 450°F for 25 minutes until fork tender.
2. While sweet potatoes are roasting, sauté onion over medium to high heat until fragrant. About 2-3 minutes.
3. Add sausage to skillet with onion and cook together.
4. Once sausage is browned and onion is cooked, add in roasted sweet potatoes.
5. After the sweet potatoes are incorporated, add diced apple.
6. Then stir in greens.
7. Add cinnamon, salt, and pepper.
8. Gently mix everything together, taking care not to mash your cooked sweet potatoes.
9. Once everything is incorporated, serve as is or with an over easy egg on top!

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For more of our favorite simple meals, check out:

Butternut squash chili
Weeknight pizza dough
Butternut squash lasagna
Potato crusted quiche

Apple Sweet Potato Hash with Greens & Sausage

Yield: 6-8 Servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

The combination of flavors in this apple sweet potato hash with sausage is second to none! Perfect for a quick and easy weekday meal but also a holiday brunch or gathering with friends!

Ingredients

3 medium to large sweet potatoes, chopped into 1/2” chunks 
1 large onion, diced
 1 apple, diced 
2-3 cups of spinach (or greens of choice)
 1 pound sausage 
1 tsp cinnamon
 salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Roast sweet potatoes at 450°F for 25 minutes until fork tender.
 While sweet potatoes are roasting, sauté onion over medium to high heat until fragrant. About 2-3 minutes.
 Add sausage to skillet with onion and cook together. 
Once sausage is browned and onion is cooked, add in roasted sweet potatoes.
 After the sweet potatoes are incorporated, add diced apple. 
Then stir in greens. 
Add cinnamon, salt, and pepper.
 Gently mix everything together, taking care not to mash your cooked sweet potatoes. 
Once everything is incorporated, serve as is or with an over easy egg on top!

September 23, 2023 0 comment

gluten free chocolate peanut butter banana scones

Breakfast Dessert Nourishing Recipes

Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Scones with Banana (Gluten Free)

by From Scratch Farmstead September 14, 2023

This recipe has it all! It combines the heavenly combination of chocolate, peanut butter, and banana in a delicious scone. Plus, it’s a drop scone meaning that it is EASY to whip up and impress your friends. Bonus, it’s gluten free. Let’s get cooking these mouth-watering chocolate peanut butter scones with banana!

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The Perfect Combination

I am a peanut butter lover through and through. And if you combine chocolate and banana to said peanut butter, all the better!

Growing up, I never remember ever trying a scone. But, when I was in college, every Sunday at the cafeteria brunch in my dorm, they had scones. Not just any scones but these delectable white chocolate raspberry scones. I loved them and may have been guilty of smuggling out a scone or two in my backpack each week.

Once Jim and I got married and had our own kitchen to work with, learning to make scones was high on my list of things I wanted to try. Being a lover of peanut butter, I had this specific banana chocolate peanut butter scone combo in mind.

We’ve been making these chocolate peanut butter scones with bananas for years. In fact, you will often find them on our table Christmas morning and are my most requested birthday breakfast 😊. However, they are easy enough that we occasionally make them for a normal weekday breakfast when we are looking for a break from our standard egg breakfast.

Why Gluten Free?

One question I am regularly asked is why so many of our recipes are gluten free?

While we don’t currently have any health or dietary needs to remove gluten, for several years as we were going through our own healing journey, and then more recently when we were working on healing our young son from a nasty case of eczema, we did remove gluten completely from our diet. During those seasons, I learned the art of adapting recipes and cooking with different flours.

chocolate peanut butter scones with banana

Now, even though we do not exclusively eat a gluten free diet, we do still commonly make gluten free recipes and baked goods for our family. It’s what we’ve become used to doing and, depending on what flours are used, can often add more nutrients with a lower glycemic index than standard recipes with all-purpose flour.

However, if you are looking for a gluten containing scone, we also love these sourdough scones!

Ingredients in Peanut Butter Scones

Almond Flour – Almond flour is the main flour in this recipe. We purchase our almond flour from Costco where we’ve found the best prices.

Tapioca Flour – Tapioca flour, also called tapioca starch, is one of our favorite flours in gluten free baking. I think it really helps with texture. Arrowroot starch can be substituted for tapioca.

Coconut Flour – This is another gluten free flour that we commonly use in gluten free baking. There really isn’t any other flour that I’ve found that behaves similarly to it so I wouldn’t recommend substituting it.

chocolate peanut butter scones with banana ingredients

Baking Powder – Aluminum is regularly added to baking powder, so make sure you find an aluminum free option. This is our favorite!

Baking Soda

Salt – Look for a good mineral rich sea salt. Redmond real salt is our go to.

Brown Sugar – We also usually get organic brown sugar from Costco. You could substitute coconut sugar for brown sugar in this recipe.

Peanut Butter – While we love peanut butter in this recipe, almond butter or other nut butters will work. Always look for nut butters without added ingredients, oils, and sugar. We always look for peanut butter with the only ingredients being peanuts and salt.

Milk – You can use any type of milk or non-dairy alternative here.

Bananas – These are the super, brown and spotty, save for banana bread or smoothies type of bananas that you want in these peanut butter scones.

soft ripe bananas for baking peanut butter scones

Egg – We’ve always used 1 large egg for this and don’t have experience trying an egg free alternative.

Chocolate Chips – Semi-sweet, dark or a combo of the two is what we usually use. To make it extra special, use a high-quality chocolate bar and chop it into chunks to add to these scones.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Scones with Bananas FAQ’s

Can I make these with alternative flours or ingredients?

Above in the ingredients section, we’ve indicated any substitutes that we have tested and know will work. Beyond that, you are more than welcome to experiment with substitutions but we don’t have first had experience.

Can you freeze these peanut butter scones?

Yes! In fact, I almost always make and freeze these scones. Just place on a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper underneath. Freeze until solid and store in a gallon size zip lock bag until ready to use. To cook, I just cook from frozen at 350°F for 10-12 minutes.

What’s a drop scone?

A drop scone is made more like you would a cookie. Spoonful’s of batter are placed on the cookie sheet. The resulting scone looks more like a large, fluffy cookie. This is as opposed to a standard scone, which is formed into a disc and then sliced into the usual triangular shape of a scone. However, the texture of a drop scone is still similar to a traditional scone—just a different shape.

How do you serve these peanut butter scones?

Like I mentioned above, these are one of our favorite breakfasts for special occasions like holidays or birthdays. They pair perfectly with a couple of bacon slices or sausage patty for a perfect breakfast or brunch.

On with the recipe!