Kitchen notes · a little help before you start

Foil Pack Southwest Sausage and Potatoes

Name: Foil Pack Southwest Sausage and Potatoes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 14 ounces fully cooked smoked sausage (sliced into 1-inch pieces); 1 pound baby Yukon gold and red potatoes (halved, I used The Little Potato Company Little Duos); 1 each red bell pepper (seeded and cut into strips); 1 cup roughly chopped red onion; 1 ear sweet corn, (cut from the cob); 1 cup zucchini (chopped into 1-inch chunks); 1 tablespoon butter (melted); 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 tablespoon Homemade Taco Seasoning Mix (or store-bought); ½ teaspoon granulated garlic or garlic powder

Smoked sausage and tender potatoes share a buttery taco seasoning coating with sweet corn and colorful vegetables. The packets hold the savory juices around every piece, making a generous forkful especially good when it catches some sausage and soft potato together.

Prep: 10 min
Cook: 15 min
Total: 25 min
Original yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 10 listed

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Estimating…

Main courseAmericanPrep: 15 minutes or lessTotal: 30 minutes or lessGrilling

Recipe categories & planning details

Meal type: Main course
Cuisine: American
Cooking method: Grilling
Preparation & total time: Prep: 15 minutes or less · Total: 30 minutes or less

A few quick notes

1. Coat vegetables first

Toss the potatoes and vegetables in the butter, oil and seasoning mixture before dividing among the foil sheets.

2. Place sausage on top

Divide the sliced smoked sausage over the vegetables before folding and tightly sealing the foil packets.

3. Open carefully

Check for tender potatoes and open each finished packet carefully, keeping clear of the hot steam.

Get to know the ingredients

Sausage

Use fully cooked smoked sausage cut into one inch pieces before placing it over the seasoned vegetables.

Potatoes

Halve the baby potatoes before tossing them with the other vegetables and buttery seasoning mixture.

Taco seasoning

Homemade or store bought taco seasoning mixes with melted butter, oil and garlic before coating the vegetables.

The last little job

Check potato tenderness

Cook the sealed packets until the potatoes are tender, then open carefully to release the hot steam.

A little more help as you go

Seal the short edges

Fold the long foil ends over the filling and crimp the short edges tightly to enclose the packets.

Oven alternative

You can bake the packets on a rimmed sheet at 450 degrees until the vegetables are fork tender.

A few questions you might have

Can I make these in the oven?

You can use a rimmed baking sheet in a 450 degree oven for about fifteen minutes, until vegetables are tender.

Does the sausage need cooking first?

The ingredient list calls for fully cooked smoked sausage, sliced before adding to the foil packets.

How do I seal each packet?

Fold both long foil ends over the ingredients, then crimp the short edges tightly to keep the filling enclosed.

How should the potatoes be cut?

Halve baby Yukon gold and red potatoes before mixing them with the vegetables and seasoned butter.

How do I check when packets are ready?

Cook until the potatoes are tender and open carefully so the escaping steam does not burn you.

Any more cooking tips?

Oven directions: Place foil packs on a large rimmed baking sheet and bake in a preheated 450 degree F oven for 15 minutes, or until veggies are fork tender. Foil sheet size directions: My roll of heavy duty foil is 18-inches wide. I cut 3 large sheets from my 18-inch roll that were each approximately 15-inches long. Then I used kitchen shears to cut the 3 sheets in half lengthwise (the 18-inch side) so I ended up with 6 sheets that were each 15- x 9-inches.

Storage & reheating safety

For cooked, perishable leftovers, refrigerate within 2 hours (1 hour above 90°F), using shallow containers for prompt cooling. Keep the refrigerator at 40°F or below, use refrigerated leftovers within 3–4 days, and reheat hot leftovers to 165°F, checked with a food thermometer. Follow any shorter package limit.

These are general safety limits, not a tested storage or freezing recommendation for this particular dish. USDA leftovers guidance · Safe cooking temperatures

Recipe source: fromvalerieskitchen.com. Ingredient names and quantities may be adapted for the pantry.

Preparation notes follow the recipe shown here.

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