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I got sausages out for dinner, but we're kind of sick of either just boring old sausage + vege, or curried sausages...
Does anyone have an recipes for sausages, or even just a twist on boring old sausage and vege. All I can find on Taste is sausage rolls!
What about using the sausages as a substitute for meatballs in like a pasta dish... something similar to a spag bol but using short pasta??
Cook the sausages first and then slice them and add them to the pasta dish??
Lol I can be so creative when it is for others but if it were me in the kitchen I would be stumped!
My mum boils them and then puts them in Sweet and Sour sauce and serves with rice - it's really yum.
I've been known to cook sausage then chop it up and use it in a pasta sauce.
boil them, peel off skin and crumb. we serve with oven fries and salad.
Something that we like (apart from curried sausages) is to cook the sausages up normally & make mashed potato.... cut up the sausages & mix into the mash aswell as cooked peas & corn... its yummy all together (I also cover mine in tomato sauce haha)
The other night we cooked up one of those continental packets, the creamy carbanara pasta one & mixed in cooked sliced sausages.... that was nice too :)
gotta run but i like pasta with sausage tomato and fennel... if you google it you should find a recipe.....
I cut them up into bitesize pieces, brown them, and cook them with a random Kantong sauce, and serve over rice. Kinda sounds boring after some of the other suggestions!!
I do a sausage caserole type thing, I think I actually got the recipe off BB and then added to it.
I just brown the sausages, drain them on paper towel (hate it when they're really greasy), cut them into small pieces, add a can of minestrone soup, a can of kidney beans, whatever vegies I have laying around (usually carrots, peas, onion etc) and some short pasta (spirals, shells whatever you have) and let it all simmer for about an hour. If there's not enough liquid, i add some stock too.
It's really simple but really yummy! We usually have it in winter, it's good in the slow cooker too.
2 sheets ready rolled shortcrust pastry
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 brown onion; finely chopped
2-3 sausages cooked and chopped
1 cup grated tasty cheese
3 eggs
1 teaspoon plain flour
300 ml cream
? cup milk
1 Preheat oven to 200C. Lightly grease a fluted 3cm deep, 23cm (base), loose* base flan pan.
2 Line base and sides of flan with pastry. Trim excess. Line pastry with baking paper. Half-fill with dried beans or rice. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove paper and beans. Bake a further 10 minutes or until golden. 3 Heat oil in a frying pan over medium* high heat. Add onion and cooked sausages. Cook for 3 minutes. Drain on paper towels. Cool. Sprinkle over pastry. Top with cheese.
4 Reduce oven temperature to 180c Whisk remaining ingredients and salt and pepper in a jug. Pour over sausage mix. Place onto tray. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until set. Stand for 5 minutes. This is yummy served with baby potatoes but you could use whatever you like
*Droooool....* @ Alan's recipe...
I was going to suggest cooking your snags as usual, then make up some packet french onion soup with half the amount of water it suggests and pour it over your snags. Let them simmer until the liquid reduces and thickens a little. Nowhere near as exciting as Alan's recipe, but still tasty!
Oooooo Yummy i like Alans idea!
I also like Nelle's idea of the sweet and sour and on rice!
How bout.............. sausage's on bread??????
LOL hj!
Thanks everyone! Some great recipes to try!
MMmmmmmm Alan! Might have to go get some cream!
But that french onion soup thing sounds pretty good Trish, plua I have that in my pantry at the moment so conveniant lol
A really easy but tasty one is
1 brown onion finely chopped
2 Sausages cooked and cut into bite size pieces
I chorizo sausage cooked and cut into bite size pieces
I tin of potatoes (cut larger potatoes into bite size pieces)
I tin of 5 beans
Mix it all together and then you can either cook it in a fry pan or put in the oven 200C for about 20 mins. It only really needs to be reheated and cook the onions
This one also works well with diced pork instead of the sausage
Alan can u cook and freeze some meals and send them my way? hehehehe :D
I like to double crumb mine, flour, egg, them crumb and repeat! Yummy!
LOL @ hj
It's so easy to make Leasha and really tasty :).
French onion soup is so handy, I use it a substitute for onion in casseroles and it makes a really nice flavour.
French onion soup mix is great. I add it to potato bake and to a tuna and pasta dish that I make. You can use it to add flavour to many things
I fry mine up as usual. When they are cooked I cut them in half lengthways. Put some sauce on them (sweet chilli, tomato, bbq) and sprinkle grated cheese on top. Grill them until cheese has melted, YUM! I call it Bec's Butterflied Sausage Parma's!
Ohhhh I do this but with Nando's hot peri peri sauce *drool*:
How about devilled sausages?
I make a sausage pasta bake which my family loves.
I boil the sausages first, then remove the skins and cut into bite sized pieces. I also cook up some pasta, we like chilli fettucini.
I mix the sausages and pasta together with a tomato based pasta sauce and add different vegies... sometimes it is just few handfuls of frozen mixed vegies, other times it is peas with finely diced carrot, beans & zucchini and some small florets of broccoli. I then add it all to a baking dish, cover in cheese and bake in the oven until golden. It is yummo.
Lisa- I'll go you halves with you in the copyright for the name!!!!
sausages are so v ersatile and cheap! And I cook for 8 people so i use them a lot
Chuck them in with any Pasta Sauce (tomato or creamy)
Chuck them in with rice and any flavoured sauce or spices you like
Crumb them
Bake them into a frittatta or quiche
pasta bake
wrap them in pastry
i cant think of what else yet!
omg i love this idea!! im so going to try it!!:
i did a very similar recipe, it was from te womans weekly babies & toddlers cookbook, except i didnt boil them first, i fried them. i might try again boiling them!:
I boil my sausages to get most of the excess fat out of them... if I want that BBQ type flavour I will then pop them in my George Forman thingy.
This is delicious especially on cold winter nights but is fine in summer as well.. My kids and Dh just wolf it down
Sausage Casserole
Ingredients (serves 4)
* 1kg Desiree potatoes, peeled, roughly chopped
* 40g butter, chopped
* 3/4 cup milk
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 brown onion, sliced
* 750g pork or beef chipolata sausages
* 1/4 cup tomato sauce
* 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
* 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
* 35g packet French onion soupmix
* 1 tablespoon plain flour
* 1/2 cup grated tasty cheese
Method
1. Place potatoes in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes or until tender. Drain. Return to pan. Add butter, milk and salt and pepper. Mash until smooth.
2. Preheat oven to 200?C. Heat oil in a deep frying pan over medium heat. Add onion and cook for 3 minutes or until tender. Add sausages and cook, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes or until browned. Whisk tomato sauce, barbecue sauce, Worcestershire sauce, soupmix, flour and 3/4 cup water in a jug. Stir into sausage mixture and bring to the boil.
3. Spoon sausage mixture into an 8-cup capacity casserole. Top with potato. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until cheese is golden. Serve.
Notes & tips
* Instead of mashed potato, you could make a pumpkin or sweet potato mash or a carrot and parsnip mash. And this recipe works equally well if you replace the sausages with small lamb loin chops.
Here's a couple that I like...
Sausage casserole
? 8 thick sausages
? 2 tablespoons olive oil
? 1 onion, thinly sliced
? 2 garlic cloves, crushed
? 2 tablespoons tomato paste
? 2 x 415g cans crushed tomatoes
? 1/2 cup beef stock
? 2 teaspoons sugar
? 2 tablespoons thyme leaves
? mashed potato and extra thyme, to serve
Method
1. Preheat grill or a frying pan over medium heat. Cook sausages for 8 minutes, or until golden. Thickly slice.
2. Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion. Cook for 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for a further 2 minutes, or until soft. Add tomato paste and cook for 1 minute.
3. Add tomatoes, stock and sugar. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Add thyme and sausages. Cook for 10 minutes, or until sausages are heated through. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with mashed potato and extra thyme leaves if desired.
Tomato and sausage pilaf
60 minutes
Ingredients (serves 4)
* 3 teaspoons olive oil
* 500g reduced-fat beef sausages
* 1 large brown onion, finely chopped
* 1 garlic clove, crushed
* 1 1/2 cups basmati rice, rinsed, drained
* 150g button mushrooms, sliced
* 400g can tomato puree
* 2 cups salt-reduced chicken stock
* 1 cup frozen peas
Method
1. Preheat oven to 180?C. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a large, non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add sausages. Cook, turning occasionally, for 10 minutes or until browned. Transfer to a plate. Set aside.
2. Add 1 teaspoon oil, onion and garlic to frying pan. Cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes or until soft. Add rice and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Transfer to a 10-cup capacity ovenproof dish. Thickly slice sausages and place on top of rice.
3. Add remaining oil and mushroom to frying pan. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until mushroom begins to release liquid. Add tomato puree and stock. Bring to the boil. Pour over rice and stir to combine. Cover dish with a tight-fitting lid. Bake for 40 minutes. Add peas. Bake, covered, for a further 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
This is pretty flexible - when I made it I didn't have onions, mushrooms or tomato puree so I used a jar of pasta sauce and added some chopped zucchini - it was yummy and great for leftovers too!