Sausage cottage pie with cheesy topping (serves 4)

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp Olive oil
  • 8 good quality pork sausages
  • ½ yellow pepper, de-seeded and chopped
  • ½ red pepper, de-seeded and chopped
  • 100g of mushrooms, chopped
  • 1 clove of garlic, crushed
  • 1 red onion, chopped
  • 1 jar of passata
  • 250ml of vegetable stock
  • 1 handful of chopped basil
  • 1 tsp of sugar
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1kg of potatoes, peeled and quartered
  • 50g of butter
  • 50g of mature cheddar cheese

• Heat the oven to 220°C (gas mark 7). Drizzle the olive oil in a roasting tin, and add the sausages, pepper, mushrooms, garlic and red onion. Roast for 20 minutes.
• Remove the roasting tin and cut the sausages in quarters. Lower the oven temperature to 200°C (gas mark 6), then pour in the passata, stock and stir in the sugar and the basil. Season well with the salt and pepper.
• Roast for a further 15 minutes. Meanwhile boil the potatoes in salted water until tender. Drain and then put the potatoes back on the pan so the excess moisture is removed.
• Mash the potatoes with the butter and the cheese.
• Remove the roasting tin and transfer the sausage casserole to an ovenproof dish. And then top with the cheesy mash.
• Transfer back into the oven for 15 minutes until the potato is golden on top

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