Sausage & Mash Recipe

Pour yourself a glass of your favourite red wine and tuck into this delicious sausage and mash dish. This recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

• 8 Cumberland sausages

Mashed potato

• 600g potatoes
• 75ml milk
• 75ml cream
• 100g butter

Cabbage fricassée

• 1 savoy cabbage
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 carrot diced
• ½ small celeriac, diced

Red wine gravy

• 1½ litres of chicken stock
• 200ml red wine
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 shallots, sliced
• 1 carrot, sliced
• 5 sprigs of thyme

Method

Mashed potato – Preheat the oven to 180C. Roast potatoes until soft. While hot, scoop out the insides and pass through a potato ricer with the butter. Mix together and set aside. To reheat, warm the milk and cream, add the potato mix, whisk until smooth and season to taste.

Cabbage fricassée – Shred the cabbage and blanch in seasoned water. Gently cook the onions in a saucepan with olive oil and a pinch of salt until soft, then add the carrot and cook for a further five minutes. Lastly, add the celeriac and cook until soft. Mix with the cabbage and keep warm until needed.

Red wine gravy– In a heavy-based saucepan, colour the carrots, shallot, garlic and three sprigs of thyme. Add the red wine and reduce to a syrup, then add the chicken stock and reduce by half. Add the rest of the thyme to the pan to infuse. Pass the sauce through a sieve and add the chopped sage. Thicken if needed with a little cornflour and water.

Preheat the oven to 180C. Place the sausages in a hot ovenproof pan with olive oil and then colour all over - normally this takes about two minutes- then put them in the oven. This will take between six and eight minutes depending on the size of the sausages. Serve with mashed potato, cabbage fricassée and gravy.

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