Sausage and Chickpea Casserole

Submitted by RonaNZ

"I made this with pork and fennel sausages, triple-smoked bacon and ingredients I had in the pantry/fridge. Delicious - but if you start with tasty sausages and bacon, you can’t go wrong! You could make this with any vegetables you happen to have."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons oil
• 500 g pork sausage (6 sausages)
• 100 g bacon
• 2 onions
• 400 g canned tomatoes (tinned)
• 420 g canned chick-peas (tinned)
• 1 leek
• salt
• pepper
• 1⁄2 teaspoon paprika
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1⁄2 cup parsley
• 250 g cauliflower
• 250 g broccoli

directions

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan and brown the sausages. They don’t have to be cooked through. Remove and let cool slightly.
2. Cut the bacon into strips and fry in the oil.
3. Add sliced onions and continue cooking, stirring occasionally until the onions are soft.
4. Cut the sausage into slices and put in a casserole dish.
5. Add the tomatoes, drained chickpeas and chopped leek.
6. If there is a lot of fat in the bacon you may want to drain the fat off the onions and bacon. Add them to the casserole dish.
7. Add paprika, salt, pepper and thyme and stir to combine. Dried mixed herbs or dried thyme will do.
8. Finely chop the parsley and add half of it to the dish.
9. Cover and bake in the oven at 170C/340F for 35 minutes.
10. In the last few minutes of cooking, steam some cauliflower and/or broccoli or cook in the microwave.
11. Stir the steamed vegetables into the casserole.
12. Garnish with the reserved parsley.

Reviews

[Leggy Peggy]

What a lovely, quick meal. I'm a sucker for chickpeas, and this is a great way to use them. I followed the recipe exactly, with excellent results. I'm wondering if the previous reviewer forgot to steam the broccoli and cauliflower, as not doing so would dramatically alter the time needed to cook the recipe. Thanks Rona for a great every day meal.

 

[joyceyorks]

This was really tasty but forget the 35 minutes to cook in the oven. After 30 minutes we transferred to the hob to hurry it up and even so it took another 30 minutes. We would expect about 90 minutes in the oven.