WW Recipe of the Day: Chicken Sausage and Apple Salad
I'm excited to share this amazingly flavorful salad with you today. Made with chicken sausage and your favorite apples, it's perfect for fall. I took it one step further by using chicken apple-sausage, but any pre-cooked chicken sausage will work in this super satisfying tasty salad.
Chicken Sausage Apple Salad
How Many Calories and WW Points in this Chicken Sausage & Apple Salad?
According to my calculations, this yummy apple sausage salad has 280 calories and:
4 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
4 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
4 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
7 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
To see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and/or track it in the WW app or site, click here!
How to Make Chicken Sausage & Apple Salad
Step 1: Assemble and prep your ingredients.
Ready to cook the apples, onions and sausage
Step 2: Place lettuce in a large bowl.
Chicken sausage, onion, apple, thyme, garlic in skillet
Step 3: Cook the sausage, apple, onion, garlic and thyme until browned and soft then stir in the mustard.
Cooked chicken sausage, apple & onion, ready for top of salad
Chicken Sausage Apple Salad with Drizzle of Low Fat Honey Mustard Dressing
Step 4: Spoon the mixture over the lettuce. Drizzle with your favorite dressing, If desired. I love this easy peasy 3-Ingredient Low Fat Honey Mustard Dressing on top.
Cooking Notes, Variations & Substitutions
Lettuce? Use what ever type of lettuce you prefer - romaine, iceberg, green leaf, arugula, mixed greens, spinach or a combination
Onion? Any onion will work - yellow, red or white.
Sausage? Any fully cooked chicken or turkey sausage will work. (One link is about 3 ounces.) You could also substitute cubes of raw chicken breast or lean pork tenderloin if you prefer.
Apples? Any apple that will stand up to cooking without getting mushy is a good choice. I used honey crisp. Gala, fuji, granny smith, golden delicious would work well.
Dressing? You may or may not need extra dressing for this salad. I added a drizzle of this super yummy 3-Ingredient Honey Mustard Dressing which worked really well.
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Chicken Sausage Salad
Ingredients
- 3 cups chopped lettuce (I used baby arugula)
- 3 ounces (about 1 link) fully cooked chicken sausage, sliced into coins (I used 1 link of chicken apple sausage)
- 1 cup sliced apple (I used Honey Crisp)
- 1 cup sliced onion
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic (I used ⅛ teaspoon granulated garlic)
- ⅛ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1-½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
Instructions
- Place lettuce in a large bowl.
- Set a large skillet sprayed with nonstick spray over medium-high heat. Add the sausage, apple, onion, garlic and thyme. Cook, Stirring often, until the sausage has browned and the onion as softened, 6-8 minutes.
- Add the mustard and stir until blended.
- Spoon the mixture over the lettuce.
Equipment
Recipe Notes
Use what ever type of lettuce you prefer - romaine, iceberg, green leaf, arugula, mixed greens, spinach or a combination. Onion?
Any onion will work - yellow, red or white. Sausage?
Any fully cooked chicken or turkey sausage will work. You could also substitute cubes of raw chicken breast if you prefer. Apples?
Any apple that will stand up to cooking without getting mushy is a good choice. I used honey crisp. Gala, fuji, granny smith, golden delicious would work well. Dressing?
You may or may not need extra dressing for this salad. I added a drizzle of this super yummy 3-Ingredient Honey Mustard Dressing which worked really well. To see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and/or track it in the WW app or site, click here! 4 *SmartPoints (Green plan) 4 *SmartPoints (Blue plan) 4 *SmartPoints (Purple plan) 7 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
Recipe source: Hungry Girl Fast & Easy Cookbook (affiliate link) by Lisa Lillien
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
If you liked this Chicken Sausage Apple Salad you might also like:
- WW Pasta with Italian Chicken Sausage & Kale
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