This One-pan Sausage with Sweet Potato and Asparagus recipe is an easy dinner that cooks in less than an hour. Clean up is a breeze, and a majority of the cooking is hands-off. Packed with flavor, it’s the perfect weeknight dinner!
Looking for more recipes using sausages? Try my Italian Sausage, Onions and Peppers Skillet and Shrimp and Sausage Vegetable Skillet, Sheet Pan Shrimp Boil Recipe, and Cabbage and Sausage Skillet Recipe.
If your weeknights are as busy as mine, then you’ll love this simple sheet pan dinner, inspired by my Sheet Pan Sausage and Veggies. It is one of the easiest dinners you can possibly make — I always make this sausage with sweet potato recipe when I don’t have much time to make side dishes, as it has everything you need for a filling dinner.
I love using sweet potatoes for this dinner, but you can always substitute with russet potatoes if you prefer.
Best Way To Dice Sweet Potatoes
Want to know how to easily dice sweet potatoes for this sausage and sweet potato dinner? Here’s how!
- Peel the sweet potatoes.
- Slice the sweet potato tip to tip, around half an inch thick.
- Cut each slice width-wise and then length-wise to form cubes. Try to keep each cube similar in size. See the image below to see what I mean!
- You can make them smaller for recipes like my Ground Beef Vegetable Soup Recipe.
How to Make This Sheet Pan Sausage with Sweet Potato
Ingredients
- Italian Sausages — We like smoked sausages as it has a delicious smoky flavor.
- Sweet Potatoes
- Olive Oil
- Italian Seasoning
- Oregano
- Paprika
- Salt and Pepper
- Asparagus — Make sure to purchase asparagus that is firm with the tips tightly closed.
- Parsley
Instructions
Prepare the Oven and Ingredients
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Line a sheet pan with foil or parchment paper.
- Dice up your sweet potatoes and trim your asparagus.
Bake the Ingredients One at a Time
- Add sausage to the sheet pan. Place the sheet pan in the oven and roast it for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, remove it from the oven and add sweet potatoes.
- Pour olive oil on the top of the sweet potatoes and season with Italian seasoning, oregano, paprika, salt, and pepper. Toss well to coat. Place it again in the oven and roast for 10 minutes more.
- Remove the sheet from the oven and add asparagus. Pour more olive oil over the asparagus and season them with salt and pepper. Place it again in the oven and roast for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and top with and top parsley. Enjoy!
Recipe Variations
- Make it spicy: make this sheet pan meal spicier by adding a sprinkle of cayenne powder or red chili flakes to the seasoning.
- Change the herbs: don’t have Italian seasoning? Change up the seasoning to different dried herbs such as dried basil, thyme, rosemary, or sage.
- Make it sweet: roast the sausage and sweet potatoes with a drizzle of honey to add some sweetness to the dish.
- Change up the vegetables: sweet potato can be substituted with russet or red potatoes. The asparagus can be substituted with another quick roast vegetable, such as broccoli or cauliflower.
Sausage with Sweet Potato Meal Prep Tips
- If meal prepping, you can portion out this sausage and sweet potato meal into air-tight containers once it has cooled. Store in the fridge for up to 4 days and reheat in the microwave.
- If you want, you can cut the sweet potatoes ahead of time and store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week. This cuts down on prep time the day of cooking, just grab the diced sweet potatoes from the fridge and toss them on the sheet pan.
More Tips
- Sausage is cooked through at 160 degrees Fahrenheit/ 71 degrees Celsius. You can check the internal temperature with an instant-read thermometer.
- Be sure not to skip cutting off the ends of the asparagus. The bottoms are woody and tough, making them unpleasant to eat. You can snap the ends off one asparagus and use it as a guide to cut off the rest.
- If you don’t have a large enough sheet pan to fit everything, roast in two sheet pans.
- Make sure your sweet potatoes and asparagus are in a single layer; if they overlap in the oven, they could steam instead of roast.
- Got extra sausages? Try my Sausage with Brussels Sprouts Skillet.
One-Pan Sausage with Sweet Potato and Asparagus
Ingredients
- 5 Italian sausages
- 2 cups sweet potato peeled and diced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- Salt and fresh ground pepper
- 1 bunch asparagus trimmed
- Fresh parsley (chopped) for garnishing
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with foil or parchment paper.
- Add sausage on the sheet pan. Place the sheet pan in the oven and roast it for 20 mins. After 20 mins, remove it from the oven and add sweet potatoes.
- Pour olive oil on the top of the sweet potatoes and season with Italian seasoning, oregano, paprika, salt, and pepper. Toss well to coat. Place it again in the oven and roast for 10 minutes.
- Remove the sheet from the oven and add asparagus. Pour more olive oil over the asparagus and season them with salt and pepper. Place it again in the oven and roast for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and top with and top parsley. Enjoy!
Notes
- If you want, you can cut the sweet potatoes ahead of time and store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
- Make sure to remove the woody ends of the asparagus as they’ll be tough and difficult to eat.
- You can substitute the asparagus with another quick roast vegetable such as broccoli or cauliflower.
- To store: Store the sausage and vegetables in the fridge for up to 4 days.
- To reheat: Reheat the bowls in the microwave until heated through.
- To freeze: Freeze for up to 3 months in a freezer-safe bag or container.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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My meal plan consists of chicken, ground turkey and sweet potatoes. I have such a hard time getting asaparagus, brussels sprouts and kale into my meal plan(they aren’t my fav). I think you created all of these recipes for me!! Thank you for giving my meal plan a boost!
This makes me so happy to hear! Thanks so much for stopping by to leave your comment 😉
This was so tasty and incredibly simple! Flavors are not super complex, but my boyfriend and I both really enjoyed it. Thank you for a great recipe 🙂
Amazing! Thanks for stopping by 😉
It was excellent my question is can u sub the sausage for chicken breast??
Yes you can 😉
Could zucchini be used instead of asparagus?
Probably yes.
Great Recipe for the Air Fryer
Yes it would work very well using the Air Fryer
This was very good but will have to make more of the potatoes & maybe have this with a soup as it did not fill us up but overall the 4 of us really enjoyed this
Made this tonight with fresh sausages from a butcher. It was very tasty and so easy to prepare. I would have liked the sweet potatoes to be a little crispier though, I think I would probably do them in the air fryer next time. Whole family enjoyed!
Happy your family liked it! Yes sweet potatoes in an air fryer is crispier.
This was delicious! Easy to prepare and clean up!!
Happy you like it!
Love this have to try it
It’s the best!