Recipes with sausages

[Indadhanu]

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!

[tk1999]

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!

[Nelle]

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.

[~CrazyMumOf3~]

boil them, peel off skin and crumb. we serve with oven fries and salad.

[~breeze~]

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

[thepixie]

gotta run but i like pasta with sausage tomato and fennel... if you google it you should find a recipe.....

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

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!!

[aussienic]

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.

[Miss J]

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!