Best Turkey Sausage Sauce Recipes

WHAT A FACE! OPEN FACED HOT TURKEY SAMMYS WITH SAUSAGE STUFFING AND GRAVY, SMASHED POTATOES WITH BACON, WARM APPLE CRANBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat a medium skillet over medium high heat.
• Place potatoes in a medium pot. Cut larger potatoes in half. Leave smaller baby potatoes whole. Cover potatoes with water and top with a lid. Place over high heat. When the water boils, salt water and cook potatoes with the lid off pot for 10 to 11 minutes, until tender.
• Place a second low pot on the stove top over medium-high heat. Add apple sauce and canned cranberry sauce. Stir to combine and gently heat through, about 10 minutes.
• Toast 2 slices whole grain bread and butter heavily, 1/2 tablespoon per slice. Chop into small cubes and reserve.
• Add extra-virgin olive oil and sausage meat to hot skillet. Brown and crumble the sausage with a wooden spoon or heat safe spatula. Add onions and celery to the skillet then season with poultry seasoning and salt and pepper and cook 5 minutes. Add bread to the skillet and stir to combine. Dampen the stuffing with chicken stock and turn to combine. Turn off heat and cover pan loosely with foil to hold heat.
• Preheat a second skillet over medium heat to prepare turkey and gravy.
• Drain cooked potatoes and return to hot pot. Smash with sour cream, butter and crisped, chopped bacon. Season the smashed potatoes with salt and pepper. If they are too thick, thin them out with milk or a splash of broth.
• Add 2 tablespoons butter to preheated skillet and melt it. Whisk in flour and cook 1 minute. Whisk in 2 cups stock or broth. Add the poultry seasoning, a pinch of salt and a few grinds of black pepper to the gravy. Allow it to thicken slightly.
• Cut roasted turkey meat away from the breast bones of rotisserie turkey breast. If you are using deli turkey, remove from packaging and separate slices. Set turkey into gravy.
• Place a bread slice on dinner plate. Use a large ice cream scoop to place a mound of stuffing on the bread. Place turkey on top of stuffing. Serve smashed potatoes and cranberries on the side. Spoon the extra gravy over potatoes and turkey sandwiches. Sprinkle the plates with chopped parsley or chives and serve.

TURKEY SAUSAGE-SPINACH LASAGNA WITH SPICY TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add sausages; sauté until brown, using fork to break up meat into coarse pieces, about 7 minutes. Add Spicy Tomato Sauce. Simmer 5 minutes.
• Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 375°F. Whisk ricotta, spinach, 1 cup Parmesan, eggs, cream, basil, oregano and pepper in large bowl. Set aside. Spoon 1 cup sauce over bottom of 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Place 3 noodles over sauce in single layer. Spread 1 cup sauce over noodles. Spoon 1 cup ricotta mixture over sauce. Sprinkle 1/4 cup Parmesan and 1 cup provolone over ricotta mixture. Repeat layering with 3 noodles, 1 cup sauce, 1 cup ricotta mixture, 1/4 cup Parmesan and 1 cup provolone. Arrange remaining 3 noodles over cheese. Spoon 1 cup sauce over noodles. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup Parmesan and 1 cup provolone over lasagna. Dollop remaining ricotta mixture atop lasagna. Spoon 2 1/2 cups sauce around ricotta dollops. Tightly cover baking dish with foil.
• Bake lasagna 50 minutes; uncover and continue baking until noodles are tender and lasagna is hot and bubbly, about 25 minutes longer. Let lasagna stand 15 minutes before serving. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cool slightly. Cover and refrigerate. Rewarm, covered with foil, in 350°F. oven about 45 minutes.)
• Meanwhile, rewarm remaining sauce in small saucepan over medium heat. Serve lasagna, passing remaining sauce.

SLOW-COOKER TURKEY SAUSAGE TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add turkey sausage and ground turkey. Cook 6 to 8 minutes, breaking up with spoon, until no longer pink. Add onion and garlic; cook 4 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender. Add wine; cook 5 minutes.
• Spray 5- to 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. In slow cooker, stir together turkey mixture and remaining ingredients except spaghetti.
• Cover; cook on Low heat setting 4 hours or until sauce is thickened.
• About 15 minutes before serving, cook spaghetti as directed on package. Serve sauce over spaghetti.

TURKEY SAUSAGE AND ROASTED PEPPER LASAGNE WITH SPICY TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a hot casserole coated with olive oil, brown onions, garlic and season. Add chiles, mushrooms and season. Deglaze with wine, add tomatoes and herbs and bring to a simmer for 1 hour, cover ajar. Occasionally stir and verify flavor. Take 1 1/2 cups of sauce and blend very smooth in a blender and lift with 1/4 cup olive oil. Reserve hot in a water bath. With remaining sauce, let come to room temperature then mix with turkey sausage and peppers. In a sprayed 9 by 13-inch lasagne dish, ladle some sauce then cover with noodles. Repeat twice finishing with sauce. Sprinkle with cheese and bake in oven for 1 hour. Should be schreeching hot. Broil if necessary to brown. Let rest 8 minutes before cutting.
• PLATING Sauce plate with pureed sauce and place a square slice on top. Garnish with yellow peppers.

TURKEY SAUSAGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and stir in the turkey sausage. Cook and stir until the turkey is crumbly, evenly browned, and no longer pink. Drain and discard any excess grease. Stir in the tomato-vegetable juice cocktail, diced tomatoes, onion powder, oregano, salt, and black pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Whisk together the cornstarch and water. Slowly stir the mixture into the sauce. Simmer until the sauce thickens, about 5 minutes.

PENNE WITH VODKA SAUCE & TURKEY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cook the pasta till al dente', drain. Preheat oven to 350. Break up the turkey sausage in a skillet, and cook with the onion and garlic till browned, drain.
• Put the meat mixture back into the pan, add all the other veggies and half of the sauce. Cook about 5 min over med heat. Add the pasta to the mix.
• Spray a baking pan with Pam. Place half of the meat- noodle sauce mixture into pan. Sprinkle with half of the mozzarella, and lay the feta slices on top.
• Place the rest of meat-sauce mixture on next. Add the other half of the vodka sauce. Top with the remaining cheese, and cover with foil.
• Bake for 30 min, or until bubbly. Remove cover and let cook for about 10 min more until cheese is nicely golden. Let stand 10 min. before serving.