Name: Slow-cooker sausage casserole
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 3 h 15 min
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: olive oil for frying; 8 herby sausages; 6 slices streaky bacon chopped; 1 large leek sliced; 1 clove garlic sliced; 1 glass white wine; 100ml chicken stock; a pinch dried chilli flakes; 2 tbsp tomato purée; 3 roasted red peppers from a jar chopped; 400g borlotti beans drained and rinsed; a small bunch flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped

Pot of sausage casserole next to a tea towel and spoon

olive oil
for frying
8 herby sausages
6 slices streaky bacon
chopped
1 large leek
sliced
1 clove garlic
sliced
1 glass white wine
100ml chicken stock
a pinch dried chilli flakes
2 tbsp tomato purée
3 roasted red peppers from a jar
chopped
400g borlotti beans
drained and rinsed
a small bunch flat-leaf parsley
roughly chopped

Method

step 1
Heat the slow cooker to high. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and brown the sausages all over, making sure you get a really good colour on them. Remove from the pan then cook the bacon until crisp and golden.
step 2
Add the sausage and bacon to the slow cooker with the leeks, garlic, wine, stock, chilli flakes and tomato purée, then cook for 2 hours.
step 3
Add the peppers and beans and cook for another hour.
step 4
Season and stir in the parsley before serving.