Todays Dinner....................
Pete’s Sausage & leek casserole with chive mash-2
Slow Cooker version
Serves 2
Ingredients
4 pork sausages
1 Spanish onion sliced
200g sliced leeks
4 cloves garlic sliced
2 sticks celery sliced
1tsp oregano
400ml passata
200mL chicken stock
2 bay leaves
Salt and pepper
800g/3 large potatoes, peeled and cut into 4
1 Cup of frozen peas
Salt and cracked white pepper
1 bunch of chives finely chopped
100mL Skimmed Milk (from your daily allowance)
Method
Preheat Slow Cooker to “low”
Fry the sausages in a casserole dish until golden brown, remove and set aside.
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 into a slow cooker set it to “high” bring to the boil then turn the heat to “low” for at least 3hrs.. 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 slow cooker 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.