5-2 Recipes; Sausage Casserole.

250 calories per serving

I am making this delicious casserole for our family tea tonight. Our kitchen smells divine! It’s really filling and the sausages make it mighty tasty. There’s only 65 calories in a chipolata!

Serves 6 Prep-time: 5 minutes Cook-time: 1 hour 15 minutes

1 tsp olive oil

12 chipolata sausages or 6 sausages

1 onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 small carrot, diced

1 red pepper, deseeded and diced

1 green pepper, deseeded and diced

1/2 pint red lentils

2 pints water

1 chicken stock cube

1 bay leaf

1 can chopped tomatoes

In a heavy based lidded saucepan, heat the oil at a medium temperature and fry the sausages until they are tinged with brown. Remove the sausages from the pan and set aside.

Turn the heat to low and add the onion, garlic, carrot and peppers. Stir and leave to saute gently for 5 minutes.

Next, add in the lentils and mix into the vegetables. Then pour in the water, turn the heat to high and bring to the boil. Crumble the stock cube into the pan and add the bay leaf too. When the lentils start to boil, turn the heat to medium (bubbling vigorously) and cook for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes turn the heat to low, add the tomatoes and stir. Then put the sausages into the top of the pan and put the lid on. Cook on the lowest heat possible for 1 hour. Alternatively, transfer the pan to the oven and cook at 180’C (160’C fan, 360’F) for 1 hour.

Serve with the sausages (2 chipolatas or 1 sausage per person) on top of the sauce. Goes well with some green winter vegetables such as kale or spring greens.
Note this recipe can also be frozen.

source;

http://www.52recipes.co.uk/2013/02/20/sausage-casserole/