Roasted Vegetables & Italian Sausage with Polenta

Ingredients

• 0.5 pound fennel bulb sliced thin
• 4  garlic cloves crushed
• 2 cups grape tomatoes halved
• 1 tablespoon olive oil 
• 1 cup orange bell pepper yellow sliced
• 0.5 teaspoon oregano dried
• 1 cup polenta 
• 16 ounce turkey sausage links italian lean
• 1 cup water 
• 4 cups water 

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• baking pan
• kitchen thermometer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 42
2. Coat a 3-quart baking dish with cooking spray.
3. Combine 4 cups water and polenta, and pour into prepared baking dish. Set aside.
4. Place fennel in a 9- x 13-inch baking dish.
5. Add bell pepper, red onion, tomatoes, and garlic.
6. Drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with oregano. Toss to coat. Arrange turkey sausage on top, and add 1 cup water.
7. Bake sausage and vegetables, uncovered, at 425 for 20 minutes.
8. Remove from oven; turn sausages, and toss vegetables.
9. Place half of vegetable mixture on top of sausages before returning baking dish to oven.
10. Reduce temperature to 35
11. Stir polenta mixture lightly, and place baking dish in oven.
12. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
13. Remove polenta from oven; stir gently with a fork, and return to oven.
14. Bake both dishes an additional 10 minutes or until vegetables are completely soft and a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of a sausage registers 17
15. Remove from oven.
16. Stir polenta with a fork; polenta will continue to thicken as it stands.
17. Serve polenta and sausage topped with vegetables and pan sauce.
18. Sprinkle with parsley, if desired.