This sausage hotpot is budget, friendly, family friendly and totally delicious. Made from standard ingredients, such as baked beans, carrots and mushrooms for a comforting dinner.
shallow casserole dish about 30 centimetres or 12 inches
Ingredients
1tablespoonoil
8pork sausages
1onion
300gcarrots4 medium
200mlchicken stock
100gmushrooms6 medium
410gbaked beansi tin
2tablespoontomato purée
1teaspoonsalt
½teaspoonpepper
800gpotatoes
1tablespoonbutter
1teaspoonmixed herbs
1tablespooncornflour
1tablespoonwater
Instructions
Peel the onions and carrots and wipe the mushrooms. Chop the onions into small pieces, the mushrooms into quarters or thick slices and cut the carrots on the diagonal.
Peel and slice the potatoes as thin as possible by hand or in a food processor.
Heat the oil in a pan over a medium heat and add the sausages. Brown them for about 10 minutes, turning regularly, then transfer to a casserole dish evenly distributed.
Add the onions and carrots to the pan and soften for 5 minutes, stirring regularly.
Add the mushrooms, stock, baked beans, herbs and salt and pepper.
Increase the heat slightly and stir in the water mixed with cornflour.
Pour the vegetable mixture over the sausages.
Arrange the potato slices over the top of the sausage hot pot, overlapping slightly.
Dot the butter over the potatoes and season with extra salt and pepper if you like.
Cook in a preheated oven at 180 C / 350 F / 160 FAN / Gas 4 for 40 - 50 minutes until the potatoes are tender when pricked with a skewer.