Hearty (throw it all in) sausage casserole recipe
Try this hearty throw it all in style sausage casserole recipe.
I love following a recipe (makes it so much easier), but I do tend to just add or remove ingredients to make it more my own. With casseroles, you can add whatever vegetables or herbs you want. This time of year is perfect for warming casseroles, served with mashed potatoes, jacket spuds or crusty bread.
We tend to have quite a lot of beef stew made in the slow cooker, especially on tennis Sundays when I can have it ready for me to just cook the potatoes when we get home. I’ll do the occasional chicken casserole, but rarely sausage casserole.
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The OH only eats sausages when they’re sausage and mash, or just plain. So no toad in the hole or casserole. It limits my recipe options, but the other day I decided they could have sausage and mash, and I would make myself a sausage casserole.
I hadn’t defrosted the sausages until later in the day, so I just made the dish in the Aga, but you could make it in the slow cooker instead. Just brown off the sausages (I always brown my meat before putting it in the slow cooker, but you don’t have to – they’ll look anaemic otherwise), then add to the slow cooker with the chopped veg and other sauce ingredients. Then cook on low for 7-8 hours or 5-6 on medium. Or according to your slow cooker instructions.
As they were having mash, I decided I wouldn’t add potatoes to my casserole. If you wanted to do a full one pot dish, just peel and chop the potatoes up into pieces then add in. If you want to add tinned lentils like I did, just drain and rinse them, then add for the last 5-10 minutes of cooking. We also had leftover baked beans from the day before so I added those in with the lentils as well. This is why this sausage casserole is great. You can just throw anything in.
I served the sausage casserole with mashed potato and sugar snap peas. The leftovers I had with crusty bread.to mop up the juices. Delicious.
Hearty sausage casserole recipe
Serves 4
Prep 10 mins
Cook 1 hour 20 mins
Ingredients
- 8 sausages
- 400g chopped tomatoes
- 1 red onion, peeled and sliced
- 2 carrots, chopped into chunky slices
- 2 sticks of celery, chopped
- 250ml vegetable stock
- 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 1-2 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp paprika
- Tin of green lentils, drained and rinsed (optional)
- Half pack of pancetta or 4 rashers of streaky bacon, chopped (optional)
Cooking instructions
1, Preheat oven to 200C
2, Brown the sausages in a little oil in a frying pan on the hob.
3, Put the sausages in a casserole dish
4, Quickly fry off the onions so they’re translucent, with the carrots and celery, and add to the dish with the sausages.
5, If using bacon or pancetta, add to the pan and fry until cooked, add to the dish.
6, Add the rest of the ingredients and mix around.
7, Cover and cook in the oven for an hour until all the veg are cooked through.
Additional chopped vegetables can be added – swede, parsnip, potatoes. Just peel and chop up, adding at the start. Just cook until the root veg are cooked through, around an hour.
You can find the printable recipe below.
Hearty sausage casserole
Simple sausage casserole that you can just through any veg into
Ingredients
- 8 sausages
- 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 red onion peeled and chopped
- 2 carrots sliced
- 250 ml vegetable stock
- 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 1-2 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp paprika
- tin green lentils drained and rinsed (optional)
- 4 rashers of streaky bacon chopped (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 200C
Brown the sausages in a little oil in a frying pan on the hob. Put the sausages in a casserole dish
Quickly fry off the onions with the carrots and celery, so they're softened and add to the dish with the sausages.
If using bacon or pancetta, add to the pan and fry until cooked, add to the dish
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix around
Cover and cook in the oven for an hour until all the veg are cooked through.
Recipe Notes
Additional veg chopped can be added – swede, parsnip, potatoes. Just peel and chop up, adding to the casserole dish at the start.
What do you add you casseroles?
Ahh! We love sausage casserole here. I always add random veg to ours. My two won’t usually eat swede but don’t notice it in a casserole. hehehe x
I always put swede in carrot mash or in with potato. But N recognises there’s something different. The OH won’t eat swede at all.
This is one of my boy’s favourites. I do mine in the slow cooker and add small potatoes too so it really is a one pot. Oh and they’ve recently decided that they love butter beans which makes some nice variety.
I prefer having mash with mine so the juice all mixes in. N will eat sausage casserole but he doesn’t like beans in things – he’d probably eat lentils in it though. OH is just too specific, plain sausage only – boring. We’re not keen on butter beans here – they’re a bit flavourless. I didn’t have any haricot beans in otherwise I’d have added though. I don’t know why I have so many chickpeas in the larder though. 3 tins at the last count – we don’t even really eat them.