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Hot Sausage and Mash


Ingredients

  • 6 sausages (I only ate 4, I promise!)
  • 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • I tbsp marmalade (or other sweet runny thing like honey)
  • I red chilli finely chopped
  • I clove of garlic minced
  • A sprinkling of oregano
  • A dash or two of light soy sauce (I just couldn’t keep the bourgeois out)
  • A dash of tabasco (just for a little extra kick)
  • 4 smallish potatoes
  • Dijon Mustard
  • A glug of milk
  • Salt and Pepper

Instructions

  1. You could do this in a frying pan but using the oven makes it all the more easy.

  2. Heat your oven to 200°C and line a tray with foil to make the clean up easier, spread a little oil over the foil to help prevent the sausages sticking. Get your bangers in the oven then peel the potatoes and get them on to boil.

  3. Chop up the chilli and mince the garlic and mix these in with the tomato sauce, marmalade, soy sauce, oregano, salt, pepper and tabasco (if you dare).
  4. After ten minutes in the oven the sausages should be starting to brown so dollop the spicy marinade all over them and give them another 10 or 15 minutes. Turn the heat up or down if things aren’t progressing as you would like. If you are using a frying pan just brown the sausages as you normally would then add the sauce to the pan giving it a stir now and then to stop it burning while it reduces and thickens and coats the sausages. Oven is easier!

  5. When the potatoes are ready, mash them up with butter, milk, salt and pepper and mix in a half tablespoon of dijon mustard, or whatever mustard you have really.

  6. One thing will happily wait for the other here so timing is not that crucial. Nor are any or all of the listed ingredients, except the sausages and potatoes perhaps. Improvise, make your own sauce with whatever you have in the cupboard. Serve with some veg if you are feeling deficient in Vitamin C. The main thing is to enjoy and remember Dennis the Menace.