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.