My Tuscan Veggie Sausage and Roasted Grapes is a plant-based version of this Italian classic. Serve with my mascarpone mashed potatoes!

March 17, 2020 Updated May 2, 2021 Jump to Recipe
My Tuscan Veggie Sausage and Roasted Grapes is a plant-based version of this Italian classic. Serve with my mascarpone mashed potatoes!
My Tuscan Veggie Sausage and Roasted Grapes is the new favorite recipe in our house. 😋
It sounds like a really unique combination (at least it did to me!), but sausage and grapes, or “salsicce all’uva,” is a classic Italian dish from Tuscany and Umbria.
I absolutely love discovering the history behind classic dishes, and then putting my own twist on these classics. Like in my Classic Pesto and Potatoes Puttanesca recipes.
I wish could have found more info about the history of the sausage and grapes combination in Italy. All I could dig up is that its deepest roots go back to Umbria, a region known for—you guessed it!—grapes and sausage.
Interestingly enough, it seems this classic Italian dish is actually a little less commonly prepared today.
I’d certainly never heard of it until my daughter and I discovered the combo while watching The Barefoot Contessa. (I think my daughter may just be the only pre-schooler who enjoys watching grown-up shown on the Food Network. And I LOVE it!!). In this episode, Ina had a friend of hers over to cook, and they prepared sausage and grapes.
I was immediately intrigued and knew I’d have to make my own spin on the dish!
My favorite plant-based sausage to use here is Trader Joe’s Italian Sausage, or Beyond Meat’s Hot Italian Sausage. Really, any veggie sausage will be delicious in this recipe—you could even use Beyond Meat’s Brat Original—the dish just wouldn’t have as much of an Italian flavor.
My recipe is so simple, you literally just have to cut your favorite veggie sausage to ½ inch rounds, wash the grapes, slice half a red onion, and throw it all on a baking sheet with a little olive oil and sea salt. Add a touch of balsamic vinegar after roasting, and serve with my Mascarpone Mashed Potatoes over a bed of greens.
DONE.
Could it get any easier?
Even better, this elegant meal comes together in 45 minutes!
Enjoy my Tuscan Veggie Sausage and Roasted Grapes this week, and I guarantee you’ll find yourself making this showstopping meal again and again!
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Interesting! We absolutely love all things Italian in our house, but I must admit that sausage + grapes is a new one. Talk about taking advantage of the local Tuscan products! I can see how the flavors work together, too…and then serving this over marcarpone mashed potatoes!? Holy cow! This is totally a comfort food meal! Thanks for introducing me to a new idea, Shannon!!
Thank you David! This is definitely a new favorite meal in our house! LOVE the unique combination!
Salsicce all’uva is a recipe I know, but I’ve not had Ina’s version, but soon will. We first experienced the dish as a starter, but it was served with a small sausage on top of stewed grapes with onion and crusty bread. It was fantastic. Then we had the dish served grilled on a skewer that was OK. But, when you go and put it on mashed potatoes and rocket, well that takes it to a new dimension for me.
Thank you Ron! Ohhhh Salsicce all’uva would be phenomenal over crusty bread, I need to try it that way next! Thank you for the fabulous idea 😋
It does sound really unique, Shannon! I love the simplicity and the flavour combination in this dish – it sounds like something I’d make on Friday night, quick but special, to celebrate the end of a busy week. And aren’t cooking shows just the perfect source of new inspiration? I love re-watching Nigella shows for this particular reason. So fun!
Oh you are so right, this is the perfect Friday night meal! Special, but not time intensive! Ohhh I really need to start watching Nigella! Love her whenever I see clips, but I have never seen a whole episode!