A simple and delicious one-pot meal. This cooks up relatively quickly on the stove-top, or put the ingredients into a slow cooker and let it simmer for a few hours.
Cut the sausage into slices of about ½ inch thick. Place slices in a single layer into a sautee pan or large saucepan over medium heat. Allow the sausage to cook a little.
When one side of the sausage slices has become browned, add the chopped onion. Use tongs to turn the sausage slices over so that they can get browned on the other side; meanwhile, the onion will get nicely sautéed in the fat rendered from the sausage itself.
Once the sausage is browned to your liking—and before the onion turns dark brown—add the water, then the potato and carrot chunks. (Ideally, the potato pieces will be at least twice as large as the carrot chunks, since the hard carrot takes considerably longer to cook.) Make sure the pieces of carrot are nestled down into the water in the pan so that they will get cooked through. If using fresh green beans, add them at this time, as well. Cover the pan, turn the heat down to medium-low, and let everything simmer for about 15-20 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked but not falling apart.
Add the canned green beans (drained or not, depending on how much liquid you prefer in this dish), salt, and pepper, and heat through.
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