Sausage & Cider Casserole
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A
delicious winter-warmer. Climb off the tractor and into the farmhouse
kitchen for a hearty taste of the west country. It's more fun than
listening to the Archers and just the thing to keep the chill out
of the bones, with the added benefit of having half a bottle of
cider left to wash it all down. Don't get back on that tractor if
you do, never mind the combine harvester.
Ingredients - Serves 4
8-10 Vegebangers - cooked in the oven
1 large onion
3 cloves garlic
2 fresh peppers
½lb mushrooms
2 medium carrots
1lb small potatoes
1 cauliflower
1 tsp dried sage
3 tbsp tomato pureé
2 tins choped tomatoes
½ pint dry cider
3 tbsp fresh parsley - chopped
3 tbsp sunflower oil
Method
- Chop
the onion and sauté in a large pan with the oil and crushed
garlic until good and soft.
- Meanwhile,
put the oven on, gas mark 6, 200°C, 400°F
- Deseed
and chop the peppers, add to the onions and stir in. Cook on for
5 minutes.
- Chop
the mushrooms and add to the pan. Stir in and cook on for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile,
chop the carrots and boil, along with the potatoes, in a separate
pan. If you are going to finish cooking the dish in the oven,
don't fully cook the veg.
- Cut
the cauliflower in to small florets and blanch lightly.
- Add
the dried sage to the onion mix and stir in.
- Add
the tomatoes, tomato pureé and cider and stir in.
- Add
the cooked carrots, potatoes and cauliflower and gently stir in.
- Finally,
chop the sausages and add to the pan along with the fresh parsley
and stir in gently.
- Season
to taste, bring to the boil and then simmer gently until everything
is heated through.
- If
you have more time to finish the meal off, don't fully cook the
veg, mix everything in a casserole dish and then finish off in
the oven at gas mark 5, 190°C, 375°F. for about 40 minutes.
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