Gourmet Bangers & Mash

Sackville's Note:

Bangers & Mash is a traditional English dish that's simple, cheap and filling. No need to be excluded from enjoying this treat if you're vegetarian -- just try some of the many meat-free sausages available. In England, Quorn sausages are a favourite of mine but the Linda McCartney brand sausages are also good.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• 6 plump sausages
• 4 -6 large potatoes , peeled and quartered
• salt
• ½ cup milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• nutmeg
• 2 onions , finely sliced
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• ½ glass wine
• ½ chicken stock cube , dissolved in 300 ml water
• salt and pepper , to taste

Directions:

1. Grill or fry the sausages.
2. The healthiest way is to grill them in the oven at 350 F or 180 C for 20-30 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes until tender.
4. Drain potatoes and mash with milk, butter, salt and nutmeg until smooth.
5. For the gravy, heat oil in a frying pan and sauté onions until nicely browned.
6. Stir in the flour and then the mustard, followed by the wine. A few seconds later add the stock and allow to thicken.
7. Pile the mash onto a plate, followed by the sausages and lovely spoonfuls of the gravy.

Reviews

[Chef #1411577]

I had never had Bangers and Mash before and decided to give this recipe a try when I found Bangers at a local sausage company. It is wonderful! My family asks me to make this at least once a month now and I double the amount of the onion gravy because we all like it so well.

[Denise J]

This is one of those recipes that is SO MUCH BETTER than you would expect from the simple ingredients. Every week our family has "International Night", where we pick a country and make new, traditional dishes from that area. Sometimes we are lucky and come across a recipe that not only represents the cuisine from an area, but adds to my collection of family friendly and healthy recipes- and this is one! Everyone in the family loved this recipe, even the picky kids.....I will make this over and over again. Thanks for sharing! P.S. I used Chicken and Apple Sausages from the Whole Foods meat counter, and used Chardonnay for the wine in the gravy.

[CulinaryQueen]

After all the times I've made this, I just realised I never reviewed it. Obviously we love it! I use white wine when making this. Never really thought to go the red wine/beef stock route because I think the white goes more naturally with it. Thanks Sackville!