sausage and pecan rice stuffing

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb hot breakfast sausage
• 2 boxes chicken rice pilaf mix
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped very fine
• 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1/2 tablespoon real maple syrup
• 1 dash cayenne pepper (optional)

Recipe

• 1 crumble sausage brown over medium high heat until no longer pink inside.
• 2 drain saving 2 tablespoons of drippings and all of the brown bits.
• 3 set sausage aside.
• 4 to drippings add chopped onion saute for about a minute.
• 5 add pecans and saute for about 1 minute more.
• 6 add half of the maple syrup and half of the apple juice.
• 7 cook until reduce stirring often to keep from buning.
• 8 set aside.
• 9 in same dish cook rice according to package instuctions.
• 10 after rice is done chop sausage very fine and stir sausage,pecans,onion,apple juice and maple syrup into rice.
• 11 cook until all of liquid is gone stirring often to prevent burning.
• 12 add a dash of cayenne pepper if desired.