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Pork sausage and vegie traybake with basil pesto

This diabetes-friendly traybake recipe has a whopping 5 serves of vegetables!

Time to make: 30 mins
Serving: 4 people

Ratings: 5.0

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Ingredients

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1 sweet potato/ kumarasweet-potatoX, sliced lengthways
5 carrots, peeled, sliced lengthways
1 large red onion, cut into quarters
1 bulb garlic, sliced in half
400g can chickpeagarbanzoXsgarbanzosX, rinsed, drained
200g lean pork sausages, cut into bite-size pieces
¼ cup store-bought basil pesto
fresh basil leaves, to serve

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Instructions

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1 Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

2 Place sweet potato, carrot, onion, garlic, chickpeas and sausages on prepared tray. Dollop with pesto, then bake for 20 minutes.

3 Change oven setting to grill and grill traybake for 5 minutes or until sausages and veg are golden brown. Divide among four serving plates and serve topped with fresh basil.

HFG tip

Make your own pesto by blending together a bunch of fresh basil leaves, pine nuts or walnuts & a good glug of olive oil until smooth.

Nutrition info (per serve)

Calories 470 cal

Kilojoules 1975 kJ

Total fat 23 g

Saturated fat 6.4 g

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One comment on Pork sausage and vegie traybake with basil pesto

Hilary Henderson January 23, 2023 at 9:56 pm #

Great flavours, my pesto was quite a thick one so I loosened it up with a dash of olive oil.

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