Easy, speedy and very affordable, this one-pan sausage bake ticks all the boxes for a lovely weeknight dinner.
It takes very little actual work to make this dish. Simply keep a timer and add the next stage of the meal to the roasting tray at the appropriate points. If you want to really keep the calories down, use low fat sausages which taste almost as good as regular ones anyway. Even with regular sausages, the calorie count is bang on 500, so it won't wreck your diet. If you're not a big fan of butternut squash, celeriac or swede would work just as well.
Ingredients
- 500g new potatoes, halved if large
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Medium butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cubed
- 400g pack British outdoor-reared pork sausages
- 250g cherry tomatoes
- 200g runner beans, sliced
- 2 tbsp thick balsamic vinegar
WEIGHT CONVERTER
Method
- Heat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.
- Put new potatoes, halved if large, in a roasting tin, add garlic and olive oil and toss to coat. Roast for 15 mins.
- Add squash and cook for a further 10 mins.
- Add sausages to the tin, toss again and cook for a further 15 mins.
- Add tomatoes, runner beans and balsamic vinegar and cook for a further 8-10 mins until the beans are tender.
Top tip for making this sausage bake
For a spicier take on this dish, try using mini cooking chorizo sausages. Normally chorizo is sold as a long, cured sausage (usually wrapped in half) that is quite firm. You can cook it, or eat slices raw, removing the papery outer skin beforehand. Cooking chorizo is more like a traditional sausage - it must be cooked before being eaten and there's no need to remove the skin. They are more tender than classic chorizo, but they still release that lovely red oil when cooked. Find them in chiller cabinets in most larger supermarkets.
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Octavia Lillywhite is an award-winning food and lifestyle journalist with over 15 years of experience. With a passion for creating beautiful, tasty family meals that don’t use hundreds of ingredients or anything you have to source from obscure websites, she’s a champion of local and seasonal foods, using up leftovers and composting, which, she maintains, is probably the most important thing we all can do to protect the environment.
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