Tortilla Stacks

Ingredients:
1 package of Italian Turkey Sausage - 5 links, 19.5 ounces (or any flavor sausage)
1 - 16 ounce Jar of Salsa
taco sauce
9 whole wheat tortillas
shredded cheddar cheese (or your choice)
non stick cooking spray

Preheat oven to 425
Serves 6 (or three very hungry people)

1 package of Turkey sausage, there are 5 links in here totaling 19.5 ounces.

You need to remove the sausage from their casings and to do this you simply take a knife and slice down the center of each sausage like this...

Next give the sausages a rough chop to break them up

And put them into a nonstick frying pan on medium high heat. Using an temperature safe spoon or wooden spoon, continue to break up the chunks as it fries.

When its all browned it should look like this. Remove from heat and drain any excess fat. Return meat to pan.

Next pour in 1 jar of salsa, stir well and sort of divide the meat into 6 pie shaped wedges to make equal portions

Spray a baking pan with nonstick spray and place three 8 inch tortillas on baking pan

Next spoon 1/6 of the meat on to each tortilla and top with 2 tablespoons of shredded cheese on each one. I used low fat cheddar. Sort of spread it out towards the edges a bit.

Add another tortilla to each stack and repeat like above with 1/6 of the meat on each and 2 tablespoons of shredded cheddar

Add the last tortilla to each stack and top with 2 tablespoons of taco sauce and 2 more tablespoons of shredded cheddar.

Next place them in the preheated 425 degree oven for 12 to 14 minutes until they look all bubbly and browned like this...

Allow to cool for about 5 minutes before carefully cutting them in half. I use a pizza cutter. I put shredded lettuce, chopped cucumber, red peppers topped with salsa and a teaspoon of sour cream on the side. The other half reheats nicely for lunch the next day. By the time I put the salad on the other half of the plate, the batteries died and I had to make an executive decision...try to find the extra battery and let my food get cold or just go ahead and eat and let you use your imaginations...I think y'all are pretty creative so imagination it is!

Depending on the calories in the tortillas you use, the calories in the cheese and salsa your calorie count will vary.

Approx:

Calories: 350
Fat: 12g
Cholesterol: 60g
Carbs 27
Fiber 14g
Sugars 4g
Protein 30.5g

Yes, this one is a bit higher on the calorie side of things, my advice would be to look for the lowest calorie tortilla you can find, look for salsa with the least amount of sugar and go for low fat cheese. I used 2 tablespoons between each layer and it was a generous amount, you can reduce that and never miss it or even eliminated it between the layers and just put it on top. Either way, this is a dish you can really play around with and change up. Don't have Italian Turkey sausage, just use ground turkey and add whatever spices you like. We really liked the flavors of the Italian turkey sausage.

To be honest, I came up with this recipe when I was laying in bed one night trying to figure out what to do with that package of Italian Turkey Sausage. I didn't really want pasta and then I remembered that package of tortillas and by the next evening at dinner time, this recipe was born.

You could put taco seasoning in with the meat and layer up the tortillas, you could use corn tortillas, its up to you, just take the calories into consideration and come up with the best combination for you.

Enjoy!