Large sheet pan topped with chicken sausages in buns, small bowls of olives and creamy pesto sauce, grapes, baby peppers, and tomato and mozzarella skewers

Italian Chicken Sausage Dinner Board

10
Points®
Total Time
25 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
10 min
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
Dinner doesn’t always have to be a traditional plate made up of a main dish and two sides. In fact, some of the best dinners allow for more grazing and nibbling, enjoying more fresh bites than you might with a typical meal. This family-friendly board requires almost no cooking (just some heating and optional toasting) and offers you a creamy pesto-based dip to slather on the sausage “hoagies” and/or enjoy with the veggies.

Ingredients

Cooked chicken sausage

12 oz, Italian variety (3 oz each)

Reduced calorie hot dog bun

4 bun(s)

Plain fat free Greek yogurt

cup(s)

Reduced-fat pesto sauce

¼ cup(s)

Cherry tomatoes

16 medium

Fresh basil

8 leaf/leaves

Bocconcini mozzarella (mini size)

2½ oz, about 8 mozzarella balls

Grapes

2 cup(s)

Castelvetrano olives

12 olive(s)

Sweet mini peppers

8 item(s)

Persian (mini) cucumber

3 item(s), quartered lengthwise

Instructions

  1. Heat the sausages according to the package directions. Toast the buns, if desired. Tuck the sausages into the buns and arrange on a large platter, sheet pan, or cutting board.
  2. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, stir together the yogurt and pesto sauce. Onto each of 8 small skewers, thread 2 tomatoes, 1 basil leaf, and 1 mozzarella ball. Arrange the bowl of yogurt dip, skewers, grapes, olives, peppers, and cucumbers on the platter, sheet pan, or cutting board.
  3. Serving size: one-fourth of each item on the board