Sausage rice and veggies

• 1 lb Sweet Italian sausage
• 1 box Rice a Roni -pilaf flavor
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1/2 Sweet Vidalia Onion chopped
• 1/2 green bell pepper chopped
• 1 packages Fresh spinach chopped (more or less as you wish)
• 1 small Apple chopped
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 1/2 cup milk

1. Cut slightly frozen sausage into bite size pieces.
2. Fully cook and brown sausage.
3. Drain sausage and set aside
4. Wipe out pan and prepare rice a roni according to package directions
5. Add chopped peppers to rice when there is 5 min simmer time left according to package directions
6. Add sausage, sauteed onions, chopped apples, spinach, butter, milk and maple syrup
7. Simmer 4 min covered, and an additional 4 min uncovered

sweet italian sausage, flavor, butter, sweet vidalia onion, green bell pepper, fresh spinach, apple, maple syrup, milk

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/369022-sausage-rice-and-veggies (may not work)