Tuscan style sausage bake




This meal is a new favourite, with such wonderful flavours and it's ease of preparation. My sister in law cooked it for me from a Marks and Spencer recipe app, and I cooked it for friends a few nights later. We both roasted some new potatoes in a separate dish, but these could also be done in the same roasting dish if the dish is large enough. Add the potatoes first and cook from raw for about 10-15 minutes before adding the sausages.

Ingredients
Serves 4

1 tbsp olive oil
8 pork sausages
500g vine cherry tomatoes
1 red onion, cut into thin wedges
2 red or yellow peppers, deseeded and cut into large chunks
60g pitted black olives, drained
150ml hot chicken stock
400g tin butter beans, drained and rinsed
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
small bunch of fresh basil
Method
Heat the oven too 220°C. Put 1 tbsp olive oil in a large roasting tin and heat in the oven for 5 minutes. Carefully add the sausages and roast for 10 minutes until browned, turning half way. Meanwhile, toss the tomatoes, onion, peppers and olives in 1 tbsp oil and season well. Tumble into the roasting tin and re-arrange the sausages on top. Roast for 15 minutes, turning the sausages half way.

Pour the hot chicken stock around the vegetables, add the butter beans and return to the oven for 5-10 minutes, until the sausages are cooked through and the vegetables are tender.  Sprinkle over the red wine vinegar and a handful of fresh basil leaves to serve.

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