Wednesday 4th July - Sausage, bean and tomato casserole - Cheap and delicious

Sausage, tomato and bean casserole

Costs about 2.50 per person

Ingredients (serves three):

9 or so sausages
2 x Onions
2 x Garlic cloves
1 x Tin mixed beans
2 x Tin tomatoes
Stock (I used the liquid from yesterday’s ham cooking, chicken stock will do though)

If you have it:
Some cooking bacon
Booze in the form of red wine or similar (I used some six month old port)
Tabasco

To serve:

Green veg (cabbage, greens, peas or similar)
Brown Rice

This is delicious, very cheap, different, and easy peasy to cook.

Only had 20 minutes to cook today between getting home and heading off to pick up Sam and go to the pub before dinner so had to race through it. Easy to do though.

I used my wonderful pressure cooker to cook this. If you don’t own one then you should do, but you can (Bert just caught and ate a fly, disgusting) use a proper casserole dish and cook for a bit longer in the oven (see below).

1.       Get home and put your main pan on a high heat, throw in a bit of olive oil and get your sausages in it and browning. Whilst that’s happening chop the onions up.

2.       Once the sausages are a bit brown, whip them out and cut them into chunks about 1 inch thick then put these bits back in the pan to brown each end more, you’re trying to ensure they don’t fall apart so brown each end.
If you’re using bacon then cut into small bits (I find it easier to do this if the bacon is still a bit frozen) and add to the sausages.

3.       While that’s happening open up your tins and crush your garlic.

4.       Add the onions and garlic to the sausages, turn the heat down to about half way. Sweat for five minutes.

5.       Add the booze if you’re using it and then the stock, pour in the beans (bung the liquid in too) and the tomatoes and some herbs if you have them, I threw in some Oregano.

6.       Leave it for five minutes bubbling away then taste and add salt / pepper / Tabasco as needed.

7.       Cook for 25 minutes in the pressure cooker or cover and throw in the oven for 45. Serve with brown rice (make sure you check how long the stuff you’ve got takes as some can take 45 mins and that’s a bit of a shock if you’re about to serve) and something green.

ENJOY!!!