Sausage & butter bean casserole

Freezable family recipe for 4 people, takes only 50 mins; recipe has vegetable oil, pork sausage, celery, carrot, onion, tomato puree, butter bean, baked beans, thyme, vegetable stock and white bread.

Sausage & butter bean casserole

Sausage & butter bean casserole

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Freezable family
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

15 mins

Ingredients

  • Vegetable Oil: 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • Onion: 1 onion, chopped
  • Vegetable Stock: 200ml hot chicken or vegetable stock
  • Carrot: 2 carrots, chopped
  • White Bread: 2 slices white bread, whizzed to crumbs
  • Tomato Puree: 1 tbsp tomato puree
  • Thyme: 1/2 small bunch thyme
  • Butter Bean: 400g can butter beans
  • Celery: 2 celery sticks, chopped
  • Pork Sausage: 8 pork sausages
  • Baked Beans: 400g can baked beans in tomato sauce

Directions

  1. Heat half the oil in a large casserole dish, then brown the sausages all over. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add the remaining oil, tip the veg into the dish and fry for 10 mins. Stir in the tomato puree and cook for 1 min more.
  2. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Return the sausages to the pan with the beans, thyme and some seasoning, then pour in the stock and bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat, sprinkle over the breadcrumbs, then bake in the oven for 25-30 mins until the crumbs are golden and the stew is bubbling.