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Sausage and Guinness casserole

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Sausage and Guinness casserole
Recipe Type: Dinner
Author: Steve Anderson
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 4 hours
Total time: 4 hours 20 mins
Serves: 4
This is another recipe that stems from me having things I need to use up before they go out of date. I dislike wasting things, especially booze šŸ˜€ For a 3.5ltr slow cooker.
Ingredients
  • 16 Beef sausages. This is around 900g-1kg. I used beef and black pepper sausages.
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 1kg small potatoes, peeled/scrubbed. I used a bag of Jersey Royals, as they were on special offer.
  • 2 large carrots. Peeled and chopped into batons or slices.
  • 3 sticks Celery.
  • 1ltr Guinness. I used 2 cans.
  • 1tsp dried thyme
  • 3tbsp plain flour
  • 1tsp Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
  1. Cook the sausages according to their instructions. Mine called for grilling for 16 minutes. While this is happening, you can move onto the rest.
  2. Put the Guinness into slow cooker to let the head dissipate. Stick it on high to preheat.
  3. Chop the onion. stick in the slow cooker. Or be lazy and use prechopped frozen onion. I’m lazy
  4. Peel or scrub the potatoes. Chop, if needed, into around 2 inch pieces. Stick into the slow cooker as you do so.
  5. Wash and chop the carrots. Stick in the slow cooker
  6. Wash and chop the celery. Stick in the slow cooker.
  7. Add the flour and the thyme to the slow cooker. Mix well. Avoid lumps of flour if you can.
  8. Add the Worcestershire sauce
  9. Once the sausages are done, stick in the slow cooker. Poke at it and add a little water if you need to, to make sure it’s mostly covered. Make sure the potatoes are covered.
  10. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours
Notes

Baby new potatoes would do just as well, or a waxy potato that you’ve chopped up into similar sized pieces.

You could substitute beef stock for half the Guinness.

Run a peeler over the length of the celery to remove the strandy bits that get stuck in your teeth.

If you want to make sure you don’t get lumps of flour, get a little warm butter (not melted, but malleable), and rub the flour into it, before melting that into the liquid.

Sausage and guinness casserole