Roasted sausage and cauliflower with cumin and Turkish pepper from Dinner: Changing the Game (page 112) by Melissa Clark

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  • Beck001 on December 21, 2025

    It’s not a bad recipe - especially as so simple - but not exactly interesting. Agree with other posters - you want a good quality sausage. The ratio of cauliflower imho needs to be a lot more. The veg was done immediately and we had 3/4 of sausage left. The cumin seasoning was too similar to the sausage.

  • Nrnarayan on September 10, 2025

    I did more of an Italian riff of this based on ingredients I had. Used chicken apple sausage, roasted the cauliflower with fennel, and added garlic to fresh ricotta. I put the cauliflower and sausage in the oven at the same time per other people's notes

  • Pimlicocook on September 11, 2024

    Easy and nice. M&S spicy calabrian sausage worked well. However, cauliflower was done before the sausage (which itself only needed around 20 minutes) so next time I'll put everything in the oven at the same time. Green salad with avocado on the side.

  • kari500 on March 02, 2023

    This is absolutely delicious, and very easy. I used more cauliflower (and would definitely do so again), and thanks to reviews here I doubled the yogurt sauce (and added a bit of lemon juice). Dill. Served with pita.

  • jhallen on February 21, 2023

    This was good but my sausages were a little greasy and I think I would have liked 2x as much yogurt

  • pistachiopeas on November 10, 2022

    This is a perfect weeknight meal. If my kids ate cauliflower I would make this instead of the sausage/potato/kale sheet pan dinner from Lemon Love Olive Oil.

  • redbird on October 13, 2020

    Used lamb and pork merguez sausages. Outstanding combination of flavors. Definitely increase the cauliflower.

  • e_ballad on May 22, 2018

    I’m a little surprised that this has been rated so highly. I cut the cauliflower into thick ‘steaks’ rather than the florets recommended in the recipe. Using the same temperature & cooking times, the cauliflower was incinerated & the sausages were shriveled inedible morsels. We use a calibrated oven thermometer so would recommend reducing oven temp & checking much earlier. Ended up with cereal for dinner...

  • chawkins on May 10, 2018

    This was good even though I forgot to add the Aleppo pepper. I especially like the carmelized cauliflower and wished there were more, they did shrink down a lot when roasted, so may double that next time. I just used regular sweet Italian sausages, the store was out of the hot ones which are what we normally prefer.

  • Tweedles81 on December 30, 2017

    I have made this twice now - really excellent! I bought thick sausage so it needed to cook a bit longer than suggested. All of the suggested garnishes really add to the dish. I will be adding this to my regular dinner rotation, and may double the cauliflower moving forward because it is so gosh darn tasty!

  • westminstr on September 27, 2017

    This worked out pretty well for us. I roasted everything together on the same sheet pan for about 40 min to get everything nice and brown. The garlicky yogurt adds a lot and was very yum! Served w lettuce/tomato/cuke salad. Good hands off weeknight meal though not a 30 minute meal in my oven.

  • Delys77 on September 22, 2017

    We really liked this but I think it is very dependent on the quality of your sausage. If the sausage isn't super flavourful to start with then it won't be anything stellar. I put the sausage and cauli in at the same time and had it in there for a bit more than 30 minutes. I also had to drain a touch of the fat part way through. On the whole a good dish but given the short ingredient list you need high quality sausage.

  • Rinshin on September 09, 2017

    This was just ok for us. The overall taste was quite mild bordering on bland. Not sure what effect aleppo pepper made since I could not taste the difference it made. Really nothing stood out here. Photo added.

  • Astrid5555 on July 04, 2017

    Delicious, quick and easy! Also used only one sheet pan, but made a foil divider so the sausage juices did not interfere with crisping the cauliflower. The garlic sauce is a must!

  • raybun on May 29, 2017

    I was very happy with this dish, easy, quick & so tasty! The family devoured it. Served with corn on the cob drizzled with spicy honey (small victories), great meal!

  • Frogcake on May 23, 2017

    A delicious, simple sheet pan dinner. Really healthy too! We loved the garlic yogurt sauce, like others. Not much work to clean up. I've made this recipe with mushrooms and broccoli with times adjusted accordingly.

  • L.Nightshade on May 20, 2017

    My cauliflower was done too soon, didn't need the extra time. I did pop both the sausages and the cauliflower back into the oven on broil for the last few minutes, as they were fully cooked, but not showing any color. (I prefer the Batali method of broiling the cauliflower; it gets a nice char at the same time that it’s fully cooked.) I added extra garlic, and the zest of a lemon to the yogurt, for a bit more zing. I used lots of Aleppo pepper, and put extra on the table in a salt cellar. I used all the suggested herbs. I made a little tomato salad, as I thought a bit more color and a different texture was needed to make a meal. All in all, very nice for a quickie dinner. The cumin and Aleppo work well with the cauliflower, and with the Italian sausage. The leftovers made a meal that was just as good as the first one. I’d like to vary the spices and type of sausage some time, when another quick dinner is called for.

  • TrishaCP on May 01, 2017

    We loved this one. The key for me is the garlicky yogurt- it added that pop of freshness and creaminess. I only used one baking sheet too, but the downside to that approach is that the cauliflower ended up soggy when my sausages burst a bit in the oven. We skipped the pine nuts and went with fresh parsley.

  • FJT on April 27, 2017

    This was nice, but nothing special. I had really nice sausages and I think they outshone the cauliflower (which on its own was good). I even went out and bought some Aleppo pepper and really wasn't sure why I'd bothered!

  • clcorbi on April 15, 2017

    Yum. Really nice sheet pan dinner. I used some gorgeous pork sausages from the farmer's market and roasted the whole thing on one pan--I think it's a crazy suggestion to use two pans here! I initially roasted the cauliflower for 20 minutes rather than 10, to try and get it a bit more crisp. I then added on the sausages for 25 minutes, and threw in some pine nuts to toast on the pan for the final 3 minutes. I had neither Turkish pepper nor Aleppo pepper, so I sprinkled some smoked paprika over everything. I'm not always a big cumin fan, but here, the whole seeds really worked for me. As did the delicious drizzle of garlicky yogurt. I had this with a slice of garlic toast and it was a really nice, satisfying, easy dinner. With minimal dishes to clean up!

  • mrshalf on March 30, 2017

    Perfect weeknight meal. Great for cleanup as I used one pan. I couldn't stop eating the cauliflower! So yum! The sausages should be quality as they're the center of the dish. A salad and dessert filled us all up! Keeper. Kate thought she could live without the sauce - it added a lot but only for the adults in our group.

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