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Sausage and Cider Casserole

Fuzzysteve
Sausage and Cider Casserole
Recipe Type: Dinner
Author: Steve Anderson
Prep time: 25 mins
Cook time: 4 hours
Total time: 4 hours 25 mins
Serves: 4
A slow cooked dish, using up some sausages and some cider I had. Just needed to buy the apples.
Ingredients
  • Pork sausages – I used Lincolnshire sausages. 1 bag of frozen ones. about 600g or so.
  • 2 eating apples. I used pink ladies.
  • 500ml cider. I used a can of strongbow, as I had it to use up.
  • 1 onion. I used frozen chopped onion, because I’m lazy.
  • 1tsp thyme.
  • 1 tablespoon flour
Instructions
  1. Cook the sausages. I oven baked mine on a baking tray, for about 25 minutes, from frozen. Following the instructions that come with them is a good idea. Pan frying or grilling would also work. Oven baking was just easy
  2. While they’re cooking, chop the onion, then stick it and the cider in the slow cooker, stuck on high. Don’t just switch the slowcooker on with nothing in it.
  3. Peel then thinly slice the apple. I didn’t core it or anything, just sliced it till the core was left, and binned that. dust the apple with the flour, then stick it in the slow cooker. mix it round.
  4. Add the thyme to the slow cooker as well.
  5. Once the sausages are done, transfer them to the slow cooker. if they’re dripping fat, shake it mostly off before adding them. You don’t want it swimming.
  6. Cook on high for 4 hours. Mostly, this is to break down the apple, and infuse the flavor into the sausages.
Serving size: 4
Notes

Serve with mashed potato, and something else. I used green beans, with a light coating of tomato and paprika. The beans didn’t work out quite right, so I’m still honing that.

I’d recommend getting a ricer for the potato, as it makes life a lot easier, with a smooth mash at the end. And means if you don’t get all the potato cooked fully, the hard bits tend not to go through, so can be discarded. A little butter (salted) and a little pepper goes well with it, add the butter at the ricing stage, the pepper when you then mix it together with a spoon.