Beef on Bamboo

Ingredients:

1	pound fully-cooked smoked beef sausage
1/4	cup Dijon-style mustard
2	tablespoons honey
1 or 2	small zucchini or yellow squash
16	cherry tomatoes

 

Directions:

1. PLACE the mustard and honey in a small bowl.  STIR with a rubber spatula to mix well.  SET ASIDE.

2. Adult help needed:  PLACE the beef sausage on a cutting board and carefully CUT it crosswise into 4 equal pieces, using a knife.  CUT each sausage piece in half the long way.  You will then have 8 pieces.  CUT each of these sausage pieces crosswise into 6 equal pieces.  You will then have 48 pieces.

3. Adult help needed:  PLACE the zucchini on cutting board.  Carefully CUT zucchini crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices, using a knife.  You should have 16 zucchini coins (round slices).

4. Carefully PUT 2 sausage pieces on a 6-inch bamboo skewer and PUSH them to the very end of the skewer.  Then PUT 1 zucchini coin, 2 more sausage pieces, 1 zucchini coin and 2 more sausage pieces onto the skewer, PUSHING them tightly together.

5. REPEAT step 4 to make a total of 8 kabobs.

6. PLACE the kabobs on a large microwave-safe dinner plate.  MICROWAVE on HIGH 4 to 5 minutes or until the sausage is thoroughly heated and the zucchini is just starting to get tender.

7. Meanwhile PUT 4 cherry tomatoes onto each of 4 skewers.  SET ASIDE.

8. Adult help needed:  Careful!  Plate will be very hot.  Using pot holders, REMOVE the plate of kabobs from the microwave.  PLACE the kabobs on a large serving platter, using tongs.

9. BRUSH sausage kabobs with 3 tablespoons of the honey mustard mixture.

10.ADD the tomato kabobs to the platter.  SERVE the sausage and tomato kabobs with the remaining honey mustard.

 

Nutrition information per serving:  415 calories; 17 g protein; 18 g carbohydrate; 31 g fat; 1,648 mg sodium; 76 mg cholesterol; 4.1 mg niacin; 0.2 mg vitamin B₆; 2.1 mcg vitamin B₁₂; 2.4 mg iron; 3.3 mg zinc.

 

This recipe is an excellent source of protein, niacin, vitamin B₁₂ and zinc, and a good source of vitamin B₆ and iron.