Sausage, Red Pepper and Potato Bake
Me: ‘What shall we have for dinner tonight?”. Rob “I don’t know, what do you fancy?”. Me: “I don’t really know, how about you?”. I’m sure you recognise this conversation. Tonight was one of those nights where you either opt for takeaway or throw something together from what’s left in the fridge. Having already had takeaway this week the fridge won. It wasn’t exactly bare; there were pork sausages and minced beef sitting in there, but they left me distinctly uninspired as I wasn’t really in the mood for either. The problem was I didn’t know what I wanted but rather than either of us going out to get something different I opted for the sausages. Things seemed a little more promising when I discovered the small pot of sour cream and the red peppers in the back of the fridge and in fact the resulting dinner, this sweet and comforting bake, was really rather nice.
Sausage, Red Pepper and Potato Bake
Ingredients
6 Pork sausages
5 or 6 potatoes
1 onion
1 red pepper
A small tub of sour cream (about 140ml)
Marsala (about 140ml)
Salt and pepper
1. Preheat the oven to 200c. Brown the sausages well and fry them until they’re almost, but not completely, cooked through. Remove them from the pan and cut them into bite sized pieces, then put them into an oven proof dish.
2. Halve and slice the onion and sauté it in the sausage fat until starting to colour. Next chop the pepper and add it to the pan with the onions. Cook for a few minutes more.
3. Add the marsala and allow to sizzle for a minute or so to cook off the alcohol, then add the sour cream. Stir well to mix everything together and allow to cook and bubble for a few minutes more. Season well then pour the mixture over the sausages.
5. Peel and slice the potatoes about ½ cm thick, parboil them then lay them on top of the sausages and onion mixture. Season the potatoes and drizzle over some olive oil, then put the dish into the oven for about 30-40 minutes until the potatoes are golden.
9 comments:
This looks super! Also another great use for my beckoning bottle of Marsala.
It's sometimes those days when you're not prepared and aren't sure what to make that you create easy delicious recipes. This sounds wonderful, Julia.
This looks absolutely delicious - what a great way to use up sausages. A really comforting dish for this horrible weather too.
Oh what it must be like to find pots of sour cream in the back of the fridge! The only thing I ever find at the back of my fridge is dead carrots and dried out lemon halves!
Excellent! Another lovely sounding recipe :)
I shall try this on my children as they love sausies and spuds, as do myself and my husband.
Cheers
Vic
me and my family make this for breakfast all the time... execpt for the marsala wine, they don't know how to cook with wine, it's not really in our tradition... but i definetly love it :)
This looks really tasty Julia. One to try as it is so quick.
xx
This looks lovely. I wish I'd seen it the other day when I was hunting for just this sort of recipe.
In the end, I used chicken sausages (we'd had enough of red meat) and combined it with some fresh mushrooms, a tin of the ready fried onions (in olive oil), a tin of cannellini beans, chopped peeled plum tomatoes, diced carrots and a bottle of Magners cider. Used some flour to thicken with the oil left over from frying the sausages, and after bringing to the boil, put the whole lot in a low oven for a couple of hours. Really scrummy.
yum! this looks good!
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