You just can’t beat sausage for quick, delicious flavor. The stuff comes brimming with flavor, straight from the store.
You also can’t beat frozen spinach for knock-your-socks off nutrition in a handy little bag.
Today we’re combining both for an amazing dinner, an easy dinner, a 4-Thumbs Up dinner done in minutes. Yep, a 15-minute dinner kids love.
Sausage & Spinach Over Rice: A 15-Minute Dinner Kids Love
Serve over brown rice, cous cous or quinoa.
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
Ingredients
Scale
- 3/4 pound sweet sausage (casings removed — just squeeze them off)
- 1 10-ounce bag chopped frozen spinach
- 1/2 cup beef or chicken stock
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- Handful of golden raisins (or regular raisins or dried cranberries)
- Handful of slivered almonds (or pine nuts or walnuts)
- Juice of one lemon
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large saute pan, cook the sausage until it’s no longer pink.
- Add the frozen spinach and use your spoon to break it up a little, stirring for a few minutes until it starts to cook down into the sausage.
- When the spinach has thawed, add the stock and basil. Bring to a quick boil for about 1 minute.
- It’s DONE. Serving suggestions: Add the raisins, almonds and lemon juice OR bring all that to the table and let each person doctor up his or her own plate. (Always a winner around here.)
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- How many kids do you have?
- How easy was this dish to prepare?
- What did the kids say? Thumbs Up, Middle, or Down?
- Would you make it again?
This was the easiest dinner ever. A complete meal was on the table in the time it took to cook the brown rice. Thumbs up from everyone (ages 6, almost 3, and 2 adults). We went with the “put your own topping on at the table” route, which was fun. I think the crazy almost-3-year-old only gave it thumbs up because she loved all of the toppings. She really only ate a couple of bites and the toppings. Toddlers for you.
Regardless, I would definitely make this again. I think it would be amazing with apple chicken sausage. My 6yo’s only complaint was about the sausage, and that is easily changed by using a different one next time.
Yay! I’m so glad to hear it. You could probably even use ground beef, or like you said, ANY kind of sausage. I just like sausage because it’s got so much built-in flavor. Thanks so much for your note!