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Apple Sausage Breakfast Cornbread Recipe

Name: Apple Sausage Breakfast Cornbread Recipe
Total time: 50 MINUTES
Yield: 15
Ingredients: 1 lbs Turkey Sausage; 2 ea Granny Smith Apples, peeled cored and chopped; 1 tsp Litehouse® Freeze Dried Sage; 1 tsp Litehouse® Freeze Dried Thyme; 3 cup Flour; 1 cup Yellow Cornmeal; ¼ cup Sugar; 2 tbsp Baking Powder; 2 tsp Salt; ½ tsp Pepper; 2 cup Buttermilk; 3 ea Eggs; ½ cup Applesauce or Melted Butter; 1 cup Shredded Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese

September 4, 2014 Litehouse

50 MINUTES

Serves: 15

Ready to eat Apple Sausage Breakfast Cornbread

Every year before school starts I have a few major Freezer Cooking Marathons in order to prepare myself for the Back To School madness. This year Ava surprised me by joining in the nonstop action. Not only did she brush up on her knife skills but the girl managed to prepare a few full meals on her own!

I am so thrilled to have a new capable sidekick in my kitchen and to be teaching my first born the basics of Freezer Cooking, a skill that will surely come in handy when she has a family of her own.

Freezer Cooking is the art of preparing many full meals (all in one day if you can) and freezing them so that on a busy day you can simply pull a homemade meal out of the freezer and cook it up with no trouble at all.

Not only does freezer cooking save your sanity but it saves you a ton of money as well. When preparing so many meals at once you buy meats and other ingredients in bulk bringing down the cost per meal. You also skip those emergency drive thru visits on the days when you just don’t have time to prepare anything.

So at the end of every August you can find me (and now Ava) sweating in the kitchen for days stockpiling meals that I know will come to my rescue during the first few weeks of school.

This year my main focus for freezer meals is breakfast! Breakfast burritos, breakfast sandwiches of all sorts, muffins, waffles, and these incredible Apple Sausage Breakfast Cornbread Squares. Yes it is true! You can prepare all of these breakfast items, freeze them, and have a meal waiting for you every morning. A simple 2-3 minutes in the microwave will have it all piping hot as if it had just come off the stove. Lean turkey sausage is cooked with chunks of tart apples and Freeze Dried Sage and Thyme then tossed into the most perfect cornbread you’ve ever tasted. No dry heavy bites of tasteless bread here, this is super moist, super light, and super flavorful! It is a simple and delicious recipe that I’ll be using over and over again, trying out new flavors and toppings as the seasons change.

Freezer cooking is something I suggest every parent try out before the kids tromp back off to school. No morning cooking means no morning clean up. Which means more time for packing lunches, finding socks, a missing shoe, a pair of tights without holes in them, taming the cowlick, and still making it to the bus stop on time. In a real pinch these Cornbread Squares can also work for lunch, or an afterschool snack, making them a new essential in our freezer. I’m always “in a real pinch”. What are your favorite make ahead freezer meals?

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Apple Sausage Breakfast Cornbread Recipe

September 4, 2014 Litehouse

50 MINUTES

Serves: 15

Freezer cooking comes to the rescue in these first few weeks of school! Send the kids off with a hot and hearty breakfast in their bellies, all that is required is a quick zap in the microwave! Let this Apple and Sausage Breakfast Cornbread become your new favorite freezer friendly breakfast!

Hot serving of Apple Sausage Breakfast Cornbread

Ingredients

1 lbsTurkey Sausage
2 eaGranny Smith Apples, peeled cored and chopped
1 tspLitehouse® Freeze Dried Sage
1 tspLitehouse® Freeze Dried Thyme
3 cupFlour
1 cupYellow Cornmeal
¼ cupSugar
2 tbspBaking Powder
2 tspSalt
½ tspPepper
2 cupButtermilk
3 eaEggs
½ cupApplesauce or Melted Butter
1 cupShredded Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350°F and spray a 9x13 in pan with non stick baking spray.Cook the sausage, apples, sage, and thyme in a pan over medium high heat until sausage is cooked through and all liquid has evaporated.In a large bowl whisk together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, salt, and pepper. In a smaller bowl whisk together the buttermilk, eggs, and applesauce.Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently stir until almost combined.Add the sausage mixture and complete the stirring until all ingredients are moist. Be careful not to over mix!Pour the cornbread batter into the prepared dish. Sprinkle the cheese on top and bake 35 minutes.Test for doneness by inserting a knife or toothpick into the center. If it comes out clean it's done!Cut into squares and serve.To Freeze: Allow cornbread squares to cool. Place squares on a baking sheet and flash freeze for 1-2 hours. Place frozen squares in a large freezer bag and seal. Simply heat cornbread in the microwave for 2-3 minutes when ready to devour!