This easy sausage casserole is full of flavour and is simple enough to rustle up for a warming, hearty midweek dinner!
Pork sausages with mushrooms, onions and red peppers slowly cooked in a rich tomato sauce. Perfect cold weather comfort food that goes well with mashed potato, baked potato or rice.
When the weather turns baltic and I want to feed my family food that will warm them from the inside and keep their tummies happy, there are a few fail-safe recipes I turn to again and again. This easy sausage casserole is one of them. It’s hearty, filling and delicious.
When I was a teenager, sausage casserole was one of my favourite dinners. We used a Coleman’s sausage casserole mix that I’m pretty sure is still available to buy. This is my homemade version.
Can I adapt the recipe by adding different veg?
Sure! If you aren’t a fan of mushrooms, feel free to use this recipe as a blueprint and add any other veg you fancy – sweet potato chunks, butternut squash, a can of canellini beans – the list is endless!
You could also add a few chilli flakes for a spicy hit.
side dishes to pair with sausage casserole
I don’t think you can beat a great big mound of buttery mashed potatoes to serve on the side, and some seasonal green veg.
One of my favourite side dishes to serve with sausage casserole is red cabbage
This post has been updated from 15th November 2014 – (4 years ago today!!) with new photographs and I’ve replaced the leek in the original recipe with onions and I’ve added chopped red pepper. If you would prefer to use leeks instead of onion, please go ahead. The recipe works just fine with either!
More cold weather comfort food recipes…
Haggis, neeps and tatties cottage pie
Roasted butternut squash macaroni cheese
Meatball mozzarella pasta bake
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Easy Sausage Casserole
A hearty and versatile sausage casserole that can be adapted to suit your family - you can easily swap the mushrooms for another vegetable such as carrots or butternut squash.
Ingredients
- 2 onions, sliced thinly
- Two cloves garlic, crushed
- 8 pork sausages
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 250 g mushrooms, sliced
- 200 ml beef Stock
- One 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tsp dried mixed herbs
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180Fan.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan and gently fry the sausages. When they are brown, remove from the heat and set aside. Gently cook the onion for five minutes until softened. Add the garlic and cook for a further two minutes.
- Add the diced pepper and mushrooms and cook for a couple of minutes before pouring in the beef Stock, chopped tomatoes and smoked paprika. Transfer to a deep casserole dish and cook for 45-60 minutes, until bubbling and piping hot.
- Add seasoning and serve with mash, rice or baked potatoes.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 228Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 40mgSodium: 560mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 4gSugar: 9gProtein: 13g
Calories and nutritional information are provided by a third party application and should be viewed as indicative figures only.
This would be great for the slow cooker Nic! Looks yummy.
Thanks Anna, yes it would work brilliantly in the slow cooker! We all loved it 🙂
Growing up in the UK, one of my favorite foods was Sausage Casserole ~ made with a can of oxtail soup!
I now live in the US with my vegetarian family and decided to give it a try using Tofurkey Italian sausages!
I cut the ‘sausage’ up into small bite-size pieces and followed the rest of the recipe ~ and it was really GOOD!
Even with the scary sausage!! Had it with mashed taters, yum! Thank you for taking me back 🙂
I’m so pleased you enjoyed the recipe, Helen! Thank you for giving it a try!
When putting the dish in the oven, do yo cover it or leave it uncovered? Thank you!
Hi Dean, ideally it should be covered with a lid ?
I’ve made this quite a few times now, though I’ve made some additions to the recipe over time. I add three or four par-boiled potatoes, cut into inch(ish) sized chunks just before going into the oven. I also add a couple of chopped chorizo sausages. I then double the beef stock quantity to 400ml. My family love it, and it’s a firm favourite.
Hi Andy, thanks for your comment – I’m very glad to hear you like the recipe! It’s a great one to adapt and make your own 👍