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Pete’s Sausage & Bacon Casserole
Serves 4
Ingredients
1 Knorr herb stockpot
1tbsp dried basil
4 Sainsbury’s “be good to yourself” low fat Cumberland sausages (0.5syn each)
4 smoked bacon rashers cut into small pieces
2 leeks, sliced into 10mm sections (s)
120g frozen peas (ss)
150g button mushrooms (s)
400g cannellini beans (s)
400g chopped tomatoes (s)
1tbsp sweetener
200mL passata (s)
Method
In a frying pan, sprayed with Fry Light, cook the sausage & button mushrooms for 10 mins until the sausages is part cooked, remove from the pan & cut each one into 4 pieces, set aside.
Cook the bacon until crisp & add the leeks, cook for 5 mins.
Return the sausage & mushrooms to the pan, add the stockpot & mix.
Add the tomatoes, sweetener, dried basil & passata, simmer for 10 mins then add the cannellini beans, cook until the sausages are cooked, add the peas 5 mins before finishing. Serve with rice.
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Pete’s Sausage & leek casserole with chive mash
Serves 2
Ingredients
4 Sainsbury’s” be good to yourself” extra lean Cumberland sausages (0.5 syn each)
1 Spanish onion sliced
200g sliced leeks (s)
4 cloves garlic sliced
2 sticks celery sliced (s)
1tsp oregano
400ml passata (s)
200mL chicken stock
2 bay leaves
Salt and pepper
800g/3 large potatoes, peeled and cut into 4
1 Cup of frozen peas (ss)
Salt and cracked white pepper
1 bunch of chives finely chopped
100mL Skimmed Milk (from your daily allowance)
Method
Preheat oven to 180ºC / 350ºF
Fry the sausages in a casserole dish until golden brown, remove with a slotted spoon. You may need to do this in two batches
Add the onions, leeks, garlic, celery and sage and cook until the mix starts to brown slightly
Add the passata, stock and bay leaves and then season with salt and pepper, add the sausages put the lid on and cook in the oven for 20 minutes. Remove the bay leaves and serve with the mash.
Meantime put the peas in a pan of boiling water & cook for 10 mins before the end of the casserole cooking time.
Cook your potatoes in a medium sized pan, cover with salted water and bring to the boil. Simmer gently until cooked. Once cooked, drain and mash the potatoes, add 100mL of skimmed milk, season and add the chives.