SAUSAGE & BUTTER BEAN CASSEROLE

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Dish up a hearty bowl of comfort on a cold, wintry evening with this simple sausage stew that uses a tin of baked beans to make it even easier

Provided by Good Food team

Time 1h5m

Yield Serves 4

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

1 tbsp vegetable oil
8 pork sausages
2 celery sticks , chopped
2 carrots , chopped
1 onion , chopped
1 tbsp tomato purée
400g can butter beans
400g can baked beans in tomato sauce
½ small bunch thyme
200ml hot chicken or vegetable stock
2 slices white bread , whizzed to crumbs

Steps:

Heat half the oil in a large casserole dish, then brown the sausages all over. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add the remaining oil, tip the veg into the dish and fry for 10 mins. Stir in the tomato purée and cook for 1 min more.
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Return the sausages to the pan with the beans, thyme and some seasoning, then pour in the stock and bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat, sprinkle over the breadcrumbs, then bake in the oven for 25-30 mins until the crumbs are golden and the stew is bubbling.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 580 calories, Fat 33 grams fat, SaturatedFat 10 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 50 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 16 grams sugar, Fiber 10 grams fiber, Protein 25 grams protein, Sodium 3.85 milligram of sodium