Chicken Sausages with Wax Beans and Tomatoes

A few weeks ago, I won an amazing basket of local produce and goodies from the organization that runs our favorite farmers markets, GrowRVA. I was expecting a few things, but this basket was overflowing with some of the best foods our area has to offer. I knew immediately what I would do with some of the items, but some of them required more thought. There was a bag of gorgeous wax beans, and I wanted to do something more special than our typical blanched and sautéed beans side dish. My initial thought was to make some type of salad, but nothing jumped out at me after a quick recipe search. Then I remembered the delicious chicken sausages we needed to use and decided to search for wax beans + sausage recipes when I came across this one.

Like most good summer meals, this one is simple. The simplicity allows the flavors and feeling of summer to really shine through. When harvested at their height, fruits and vegetables don’t require much to make them delicious, and this recipe is a perfect example of that. Fresh herbs and caramelized onions are combined with wax beans and tomatoes to create a fresh and supremely summer dinner. This one is definitely  going into the summer meal rotation.