Curried Sausages

JustJanS's Note:

Curried sausages are quite popular comfort food in Australia, this is my recipe that I have made commercially for many years and have had lots of compliments for.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 8 links sausages (beef, chicken, lamb or pork sausages)
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 onions
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
• 2 carrots , quartered, then cut into 1/2 in chunks
• 2 potatoes , diced
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons fruit chutney
• ½ cup applesauce
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 (400 ml) can coconut milk
• 1 cup frozen peas (optional)
• salt and pepper
• fresh coriander (to garnish)

Directions:

1. Cover the sausages with cold water; bring to the boil and simmer about 5 minutes.
2. Drain, cool, remove skins and cut each into 4 or 5 pieces.
3. Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the onion, garlic and ginger, carrots and potatoes, stirring until the onions are soft. Add the curry powder and cook a minute or two.
4. Add the tomato paste, chutney, apple sauce, stock and coconut milk. Stir well, then return the sausage chunks to the saucepan.
5. Bring too the boil then cover and simmer about 45 minutes. Remove the lid and allow to cook about 15 minutes more to reduce the sauce a bit. If you can’t be bothered, mix two tablespoon cornflour (corn starch) with 2 tablespoons water and stir this through to thicken.
6. 1 cup of peas can be added in the last 15 minutes as well.
7. Season with salt and pepper and serve garnished with copped fresh coriander.

Reviews

[La Rochelle, NZ]

What a deliciously authentic tasting recipe! I used tofu sausages as I am a vegetarian but it still tasted great. I have tried curried sausage packet mix where you just add it to the sausages and pop it in the oven but this recipe beats any overprocessed packet mix! You could really taste the individual flavours of the dish such as the curry powder, ginger, garlic, applesauce and coconut milk but it also mixed together well to produce a tasty overall result. Will definitely be making again and this recipe will be going in my book for future usage.

[McCarthy]

didn't have coconut milk so substitued tin chopped tomatoes very nice - what a wonderful way of jazzing up boring old sausages

[julie6111]

I did everything up to the end of step 3, then i put it all in the slow cooker and continued from there. I cooked it on low for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours and it was delicious. We loved it and i'll definately use this recipe again. Very versatile. Thanks :)