The most important thing about this recipe for sausage casserole is that you choose good 'butcher' quality sausages, like cumberland for example.

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 8 Good Quality Sausages
• 2 onions, roughly segmented
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed/chopped
• 200g of mushrooms
• 1 tin of tomatoes
• 1 tin of butter beans
• 1 courgette, diced
• 1-2 glasses of winen
• 1 large pepper or 2 small ones
• 1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
• 1 teaspoon of ketchup
• Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Begin by frying the sausages in a little olive oil over a low-medium heat

2. After a few minutes, While the sausages are frying, fry up the onions and garlic in a separate saucepan or oven proof dish

3. Add the pepper and fry for a further few minutes

4. After approximately 10 minutes, add the tin of tomatoes and add the sausages, wine, butter beans, ketchup, herbs and salt / pepper

5. Place in a preheated oven at 200C and cook in the oven for at least 1 hour

6. After 20 minutes add the courgette.

7. After another 15 minutes add the mushrooms.