gluten-free dairy-free sausage sweet potato apple onion casserole

For a wedding present two of my favorite professors from college gave us a copy of the More-with-Less Cookbook, a Mennonite cookbook that is much beloved and much used for the past 23 years in our household. 

I even got my in-laws this book years ago after using it first for a few years myself and knowing that it was worth it.

I've slightly adapted this casserole recipe from the book.

You'll need:

• about 400 g sausage, bulk or links (if links, then chop into small pieces), then browned in a pan
• about 7 or 8 small Japanese sweet potatoes, washed, leaving peel on, slice, and steam
• 2 Japanese apples, peeled and sliced
• 1 red onion, sliced thinly
• 3/4 cup warm water 
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons rice flour, or other gluten-free flour
• shakes of cinnamon
• salt and pepper to taste
• few shakes of sage

Do this:

In the pan that you browned the sausage in, remove the sausage, then layer in steamed sweet potatoes, apples, onions, and sausage. I can get two layers in mine.

Mix the warm water, sugar, flour, cinnamon, sage, salt, and pepper, then pour over. 

Cover with foil and bake for 50 minutes at 170 C/350 F.

Uncover and bake 10 minutes more. 

Itadakimasu! 

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