Creative Sausages

Our household loves sausages. The ones made with real, quality ingredients. With some small changes Tray Baked Sausages is one of our favourite dishes. 

Tray Baked Sausages a la Me!

Grab a baking dish. If you're wanting to impress anyone use a nice one coz I serve it in the same dish it's cooked in.

Collect together:

8 sausages
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
1 cup of chicken stock
1 can butter beans
2 punnets cherry or grape tomatoes
Rosemary
4 large potatoes

Then do this with them:

1. Cut up an onion, throw it in the baking dish.
2. Crush a few garlic cloves, toss them in with the onion. We all know garlic and onions is like peas and corn. The go together. Small tip from Jamie Oliver. Don't peel your garlic if you're going to use a garlic press. The peel will stay in the press!
3. Open a can of whatever beans you have in the pantry. Give them a rinse and throw them in to the mix. I like butter beans or 4 bean mix. But don't go past chickpeas, kidney beans or whatever is handy in the cupboard. If you don't have any in the pantry - rummage through the fridge or freezer and see what you can come up with to add in.
4. Add a cup of chicken stock.
5. Lay about 8 gorgeous, thick, delicious, gourmet sausages atop the mountain of natural flavour enhancers.
6. Sprinkle over some rosemary. I only have the dried variety and it works just fine.
7. This is my favourite part... Get two punnets (one seriously is NOT enough for the avid roast tomato lover) of ripe, sweet grape or cherry tomatoes and with gay abandon place them around the sausages. My love of roast tomatoes surpasses... almost... my love of 10yo red wine! Almost. ;)
8. Now for the potatoes. We like our potatoes crispy so I cook them separately with their skins on coz naked potatoes means extra work and the skins crisp up nicely and crunch in your mouth. Cut them up, throw them on an oven tray and spritz them with some oil. A sprinkle of salt if you like. And they're ready.

Place everything in a preheated oven at 200 deg C (have you noticed I cook almost everything at this temp??) and leave it to cook for an hour to develop into delicious, nutritious goodness. Serve at the table in the dish.

Total prep time about 5-10 mins. Now tell me that cooking nutritious, delicious meals from scratch is time consuming. I dare you. ;)

Remember the fussy eater? She loves sausages! Only not mixed with other stuff. So I keep a few sausages aside for her and put them on the tray beside the potatoes for the last 30 minutes of cooking time.