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[color:"blue"]Grilled Sausages with Caramelized Onions and Apples[/color]

INGREDIENTS
• 8 sweet itallian sausages
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 medium onions, halved and sliced
• 3 large Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored, and cut into thin wedges
• 2 tablespoons apple cider or red wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
• salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS
1. Prepare grill for high heat.
2. With a fork, poke sausages several times. Place in a pot, cover with water, and simmer over medium-high heat until cooked through, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat, and set aside.
3. Warm butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onions, and cook until soft and translucent. Stir in apples, vinegar, and brown sugar; cook, stirring gently, until caramelized, about 10 to 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Meanwhile, place sausages on grill (or under broiler), and cook until well browned. Serve on a mound of caramelized apples and onions.

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you can use any "tart" apple...
I like Granny Smith's because the hold up well to cooking without getting "mushy"...
MacIntosh work well too, but not as well as GS's... Macs can get "mushy" after cooking...
You can cook GS's til browned and carmalized & still retain some "crispieness" for texture in the dish...
You don't want to make applesause out of them...

Brian--it seems like this would be greasy. Could you make it with turkey sausage?

You could really substitute any kind of large link sausage, in casing, for this recipe... whatever you like...

Sure why not use turkey, but the ones with Sweet Italian Sausages are really not greasy...
since you poke holes in the sausages casings and then simmer them to cook, they secreet most of the fat...
You'll see the grease floating in the cook water!
Then you grill them only to brown them... and get the grill flavor...

We have a local butcher (a real butcher shop) in Southold that makes a turkey/pork/rice sausage mix, with some nice spices added, that's really good and low in fat...
They make the large itallian type (Hot or Sweet), or a smaller breakfast sausage version also... they are EXCELLENT!

There is also a packaged type (forget the name now) we can get at the local supermarket that is a chicken & apple curry sausage...
it's very tasty... and would be great with this recipe...

for a Turkey or Chicken Sausage, I would probably NOT poke holes in the casing when simmering...
I would fear the loss of the fat, in these cases, would make the sausages really dry...
They are low fat to begin with...

Carmelized apples & onions are also great combined with sauerkraut!
I always add caraway seeds too... and saute the sauerkraut in real butter, NEVER BOIL!
Excellent over a really good BEEF Hot Dog! w/casings...
Like Sabrette's, Nathans, Hebrew National, etc...

My favorite Hot Dog is still with Cole Slaw & pineapple chunks, and a good mustard!

OK, thanks.