Easy curried sausages with mash potato

At a glance

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Serves: 4 to 6

Ingredients

• 3 teaspoons oil*
• 400g extra lean sausages* (pork, beef or chicken)
• 1 onion*
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic or 2 garlic cloves
• 2 carrots
• 3 white potatoes
• 2-3 teaspoons curry powder
• ½ cup water
• 1 cup canned or bottled tomato puree* (no added salt if available)
• 420g canned salt reduced baked beans
• ½ cup frozen peas
• ½ cup milk* (reduced fat if available or you can use vegetable stock)

Steps

1. Dice the onion by removing the outer skins, cutting the onion into slices, then cutting slices into smaller pieces. Place in a small bowl for later.
2. If using fresh garlic, remove the outer skin and chop cloves into small pieces. Add to bowl with the onion.
3. Chop the carrot by cutting it into smaller sticks or rounds and chopping it into smaller pieces. Add to bowl with the onion and garlic.
4. Prepare the potatoes by using a knife or peeler to remove the skin and then chopping into small bite size pieces. Set aside in a bowl for later.
5. Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in a large frying pan. Wait until the oil sizzles a little then add the sausages and cook, turning with a fork for 5 minutes or until evenly browned. Transfer to a chopping board and cut the sausage into bite sized chunks.
6. Heat 1 teaspoon of oil in the same pan. Wait until the oil sizzles a little then add onion, garlic and carrot, stirring with wooden spoon, for 3 minutes or until softened. Add curry powder and cook, stirring for 30 seconds. Add water, canned or tomato puree, baked beans and cooked sausages, and cook uncovered for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Add the peas and cook for a further 5 minutes.
7. While the sausage and bean mix cook, make the mashed potato. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil on the stove. Once boiling, add potatoes and cook for 10 minutes or until they are very soft and break apart when pierced with a fork. Once cooked, drain the boiled potatoes from the saucepan (or use a colander) and return the potatoes to the saucepan with the heat off. Add 1 teaspoon of oil and milk, and sprinkle with pepper. Mash the potatoes with the fork or a potato masher until smooth and fluffy. Set aside.
8. Serve curried sausages with mashed potato on plates.

*Tips

• Use any of these cooking oils: olive oil, canola oil, vegetable oil.
• You can replace sausages with minced meat if preferred.
• Use red or brown onion.
• You can use any tomato puree, for example passata sauce, canned crushed tomatoes, canned diced tomatoes.
• You can use any fresh or frozen vegetables you like.
• To change up the colour of the mashed potato, add in a piece of pumpkin when boiling the potatoes and mash altogether.
• Option to replace milk with same amount of salt reduced vegetable stock to make mashed potato.

Watch how to make it

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