Description
My favorite sweet and salty, super easy appetizer that’s impossible to stop nibbling.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/4 cups prepared marinara sauce
- 25 whole dates, pitted
- 1/2 pound spicy Italian sausage
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta, for garnish
- 1/2 cup (or so) torn caselveltrano olives, for garnish
- Chopped fresh parsley and oregano, for garnish
Instructions
- Place a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat oven two 400 degrees F.
- Pour marinara sauce into a 10-inch skillet of 9×9-inch baking dish.
- Stuff each date with 1 tablespoon of raw sausage. The date will remain open with the sausage mounding out. Place each stuffed date into the sauce with the sausage facing upright.
- Once all the dates are stuffed, place the skillet in the oven to roast until the sausage is cooked through (with an internal temp of 160 degrees F), 18-20 minutes.
- Remove the skillet from the oven and cool slightly before serving. Just before serving, sprinkle with feta, olives, and fresh herbs. Enjoy warm to warm-ish.
