Paleo Italian Dish

Ingredients:

• 1 pound mild Italian sausage meat

• 2 medium eggplants

• 1 medium zucchini

• 3 bell peppers, any color

• 2 stalks celery

• 1 can chopped tomatoes, and a few fresh if you have them

• 1 onion

• 3 cloves garlic

• 1 tbsp fresh minced rosemary

• 2 tbsp fresh chopped basil

• 1 tbsp dried Italian herbs

• 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

• 1 tbsp oil

• Other seasoning to taste

Instructions:

1. Put sausage, oil, garlic and onion in a large, deep skillet and cook, stirring often until sausage is cooked through.

2. Meantime, chop up veggies into bite sized pieces.

3. Add all ingredients to skillet except basil. I like to add peppers first for a few minutes, then eggplant, since these take a bit longer to cook. This prevents overcooking of the other veggies.

4. Once veggies are cooked to desired consistency, add basil and remove from heat. Allow to sit covered for 5 minutes then serve.

Tips:

• This was delicious ladled over some lemon hummus, spinach and cooked quinoa.  

• You could also layer over zucchini pasta, cauliflower rice or similar. 

• Mushrooms and olives would also go nicely in this recipe if they're on hand!