New Breakfast Tried ~ Butternut Apple and Kale Hash with Sausage

 

The photo is my husband's breakfast packed up the day prior.  I have to say, it would be absolutely fantastic with eggs over easy made fresh, but I do have to send breakfast on-the-go for him during the work week days.

Oh my goodness, it was delicious!  Time consuming to make, but healthy and very good.  It's a keeper recipe, with some tips to make it easier.

First, remember I ground up some of our dehydrated sage a while back?  I put it in a spice jar for easy use for making homemade chicken or turkey sausage?  Well, I'm not doing that anymore.

I discovered that the delicious sage flavor goes stale after weeks of sitting in a spice jar.  It's just not the same as crushing the full leaves dehydrated.  I'll just have to take the time to crush them for really good flavor.  

Tips:  Most butternut squash is about 3 pounds or so.  Unless I grow it myself, and have a dry year, I have never seen a "small" or 1 1/2 pound butternut squash. 

I bought a 3# one, diced it up, and saved half to freeze.  Next time I will make sure that the dicing part is done on a day with less work, and have that prep work already done.  Butternut is too hard of a squash to dice up small in my box cutter.

Tip:  I cooked 1# of organic ground turkey and 1# of ground chicken, with sausage spices on a earlier day, froze half and kept half for this breakfast. 

You could also wash and dice up the greens the day before too.  I used kale in our breakfast.

I cooked my husband's eggs the day before, and sent it with him to work to re-heat.  It re-heated well for him and he loved it.  Freshly cooked is wonderful, but this was fantastic.   

You could use any breakfast sausage, but we love to rotate ours with chicken/turkey for a lower fat breakfast.  Also, I can chose to leave out the brown sugar when I make it myself too.  Who knows what kind of sugar they use in the breakfast sausage bought in stores.  

Anyway, sharing a I-tried-it-so-you-don't-have-to breakfast recipe. 

Recipe is online with Real Food Dietitians - Butternut Squash and Apple Hash with Sausage.

Have fun, and don't make too many dirty dishes, ha ha!

New Breakfast Tried ~ Butternut Apple and Kale Hash with Sausage  ©  May 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart