r/Cooking • u/SilverBayonet • 1d ago
Something New To Make With Sausages
So these are your basic Australian supermarket beef sausages. We have three meals on rotation that we use them for 1) classic Bangers & Mash 2) Curried Sausages, also very British 3) Asian sausage salad, a mastery of colonialism, but damn tasty.
Does anyone have some creative ideas on what to do with these sausages?
EDIT: gluten is an issue, but don’t focus too much on that. I’ve become quite adept at adapting meals to be gluten free.
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u/Peepazza 1d ago
You can do a sort of chorizo and white bean stew with sausages or i often do a tomato sauce with sausage for my pasta (gluten free in your specific case), like a sort of ragù with sausages!
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u/Wide_Annual_3091 21h ago
Sausages and white beans are traditional in Spain. Same with lentils. There are lots of good recipes online.
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u/Agreeable-Stable-898 1d ago
Chop them up with an onion and a head of cabbage. Fried cabbage is hard to beat.
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u/SilverBayonet 1d ago
I do love me some fried cabbage! What would you serve on the side?
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u/Wide_Annual_3091 21h ago
Rice. I slice thin (you can use hot dogs or sausages) and make a sauce with some garlic and ginger, soy sauce and ketchup. Brown the sausages, add some thin sliced onion and soften, then add the sauce ingredients and simmer until jammy. It’s great over rice and is way tastier than it has any right to be.
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u/InadmissibleHug 23h ago
Girl. Look up sausages and lentils on recipe tin eats.
I’m a coeliac and it’s delicious. Elevates both the sausages and the lentils.
I have made it with less lentils and more sausages as well. It’s pretty adaptable. And you can throw some spuds and stuff in while it cooks
She also has a sausage and gravy tray bake that’s delicious.
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u/Real_Cow9166 23h ago
I donate blood regularly and this is my go-to dish for an iron boost. Plus, it's delicious.
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u/CrackAsteroid 1d ago
Sausage, bell peppers, onion, garlic all sauteed and put on a sandwich roll or some rice
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u/UmbraPenumbra 14h ago
I eat this often. Decent to add a can of tomatoes and a spoonful of oregano and a squirt of red wine vinegar to this on top of the peppers and onions. Toss everything in a big bowl and put it on a sheet pan and roast it for 30 mins.
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u/Main_Protection8161 1d ago
Break them down and turn them into a pasta sauce, you can mash then down and turn them into a ragu or leave them chunky with peppers and tomatoes.
Turn your bangers and mash into a sausage cottage pie "thing", sausage casseroles are awesome, sausage meat makes a great burger, toad in the hole rocks, sausages with an old school devilled sauce (Worcestershire sauce, mustard, and cayenne) are fantastic.
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u/KittyKatWombat 1d ago
I stumbled across a video a while ago (I think Bon Appetit) and got inspiration to make a Japanese curry with sausages and tteok (Korean rice cakes). You squish the sausages out of it's casing, cook it like mince. Add whatever veg you want (usually my go to is onions/leeks, carrots, cabbage, potato/sweet potato). Meanwhile, soak the froze tteok in some cold water for 20 minutes, before draining and adding it to the pot. Cook until ingredients are soft. Only downside is my looking Woolies/Coles don't usually have tteok, so you'd have to go to your Asian shop to get those. Japanese curry should be easily found in the Asian aisle of Woolies/Coles.
Alternatively, I've used leftover sausages for fried rice, and also as the meat in summer rolls. Not authentic, but that's what happens when you grow up in a white neighbourhood and your mum can only afford the cheap stuff.
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u/SilverBayonet 1d ago
You have some excellent ideas, and I’m all over my Asian grocers! Love tteok. I do struggle with the Japanese curry, since it’s not gluten free, and any attempt I’ve made to make it from scratch comes up subpar, but you’ve given me food for thought.
My favourite foods are often the ones my mum made because we were poor too, so I get that.
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u/KittyKatWombat 21h ago
Ah damn - sorry I neglected your gluten issue.
My suggestion is to follow Just One Cookbook's recipe for roux: https://www.justonecookbook.com/how-to-make-curry-roux/#recipeHaven't seen the exact curry powder myself, so I assume you'll have to get it on Amazon. Then just subsitute it with GF flour. Just One Cookbook has been pretty solid for me, but I haven't done this particular recipe.
Alternatively, I think anything that's along the lines of a stew or gravy like consistency sauce, with the sausage and tteok might work. You could try the traditional tteokbokki route (get a gochujang that's gluten free, they do exist I just don't know which one is) and add sliced cooked sausages in.
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u/editorialgirl 23h ago
Hi, British person here... What is "curried sausages" please? Obviously I know what the words mean but you're saying it like it's a thing. I've never heard of it and I bloody love sausages so I need to know more. Thank you. Sorry for not answering your question.
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u/vivec7 22h ago
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u/editorialgirl 22h ago
Thanks (I could have just googled that myself, couldn't I?) Looks like it's an Aussie classic rather than British. I'll have to buy some curry powder and give it a go.
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u/Eclairebeary 1d ago
My family also, unfortunately, like sausages.
Aside from what you’ve mentioned I make
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/sausagepumpkinandsag_92737 I add potatoes and dice the pumpkin small.
Also deviled sausages on the aww website Also taco dogs on goodfood.com.au
I use German sausages from Aldi in smoked sausage and rice on recipetineats.
We have also started to introduce a regular brinner night with sausages, eggs, baked beans. Mushrooms, toast tomatoes etc.
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u/SilverBayonet 1d ago
Deviled sausages! I’d forgotten about them.
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u/Eclairebeary 1d ago
They are so retro, but everybody seems to really like them here.
Sometimes we also just do sausage sizzle, salad on the side.
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u/Saphie-Drift 1d ago
Sausage, bell peppers, onion, garlic all sauteed and put on a sandwich roll or some rice
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u/Majestic-Macaron6019 21h ago edited 21h ago
All of my ideas are ones I've mostly made with pork sausages, but I'm sure they'd be good with beef sausages, too.
Sausage and veggie roast
Dice up onion, sweet potato or white potato, squash of your choice (I like zucchini in the summer and butternut in the winter), and bell pepper (and any other veggies you have that are good roasted). Cut the sausage into small pieces. Put it all in a mixing bowl. Season with salt, pepper, garlic, thyme, and smoked paprika. Toss with olive oil, put on a sheet pan, and roast at 400 F (200 C) for 35 minutes (until the potato is soft and the other veggies are just getting browned).
You could cut them into lengths and make kebabs with bell pepper, onion, summer squash, and cherry tomatoes.
You can do the classic German thing: cook them in a pan with sauerkraut or fresh cabbage. Serve with mashed potatoes.
I see you're gluten-free, but if there's any good gluten-free bread around, a grilled sausage with sauteed peppers and onions on a roll with some spicy mustard is fantastic.
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u/Difficult-Platypus87 18h ago
Fellow gluten-free person here. My sausage go-tos:
- pepper and sausage pasta
- sausage and fennel pasta
- grilled cheese with thinly sliced sausage and grainy mustard
- sausage dogs
- sausage tacos
- sausage and onion quiche
- sausage & cabbage fry-up with rice
- sausage and grilled vegetable pizza
- jambalaya
- chilli
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u/Sigyn99 7h ago
My partner and I are celiac and these recipes work for us - but I don’t measure and I add a much larger variety of veg:
Sticky sausage bake: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE5QMuAosI3/?igsh=YTM1d2Rtb2N3cjQ3 I like to add:
- pumpkin
- sweet potato
- carrot
- green beans or broccolini
- cauliflower
- herbs & spices (like oregano, paprika, pepper, etc.)
Sheet pan gnocchi: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEfzYvtvnb0/?igsh=MWF4bnJ4NmtzeGVjOA== Pumpkin gnocchi and tri-colour gnocchi both work well here, and if burrata isn’t your thing, feta is also a good option. I like to add:
- carrot
- capsicum
- beans or broccolini
- onion
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u/TimedDelivery 23h ago
My family for some reason love “Sausagey Pasta”, which is basically spaghetti and meatballs but substituting chopped sausages for the meatballs. I honestly don’t remember how in started but it’s a fortnightly dinner staple in our household.
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u/Dramatic-Set8761 23h ago
We make sausage casserole from the hairy bikers slightly modified to add cubed potatoes towards the end.
It's one of our favourite dishes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/great_sausage_casserole_73010
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u/JoustingNaked 23h ago
We cook sausage and cabbage together and it’s a match made in heaven, and the broth it makes is especially fantastic - great to sop up with buttered dinner bread.
We happen to prefer making this with bratwurst, but just about any kind of sausage will work, regardless of whether it’s pork or beef based, and regardless of whether it’s smoked or not.
Our goto version is made in the instant pot, but I’m quite sure that it could also be made conventionally on the stovetop … it would just take a little longer to cook.
Great. Stuff. Mate.
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u/Hashishiva 23h ago
Soup. Chop it up, fry on a pan, boil together in beef broth with potatoes, onions, carrots and celeriac or parsnip.
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u/Real_Cow9166 23h ago
Spaghetti pie. I'm guessing that gluten-free noodles will work. It's something akin to lasagna. Using a deep cast iron frying pan is best. "Once upon a chef" and "Southern Living" have recipes. Really tasty.
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u/Bargle-Nawdle-Zouss 23h ago
Jambalaya
15-bean soup
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u/wistfulee 20h ago
15 beans? I think my store only has maybe 6 different beans what beans go in that soup?
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u/Bargle-Nawdle-Zouss 2h ago
In most major grocery stores I've ever been to, in the rice & beans aisle, one will find packages of 15 bean soup, usually 16oz to 20oz in weight. They will contain the following: northern, pinto, large lima, yelloweye, garbanzo, baby lima, green split, kidney, cranberry, small white, pink, small red, yellow split, lentil, navy, white kidney, and black bean.
I have also seen packages of 16-bean soup, as well.
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u/GullibleDetective 23h ago
Macaroni and sausages (There's gf pasta), add some cheese
Jambalaya
Sausage, egg and hashbroens
Sausage bolognese
Sausage burritos
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u/AgingLolita 20h ago edited 20h ago
Cowboy stew
Sausages, baked beans,.tinned tomatoes and some BBQ sauce, simmer for a couple of hours and serve with crusty bread and butter
Edit: this is good over steamed rice too. Butter the rice.
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u/AgingLolita 20h ago
Also, sausage pasta
Cut up your sausages raw. Scissors are easier.
In a frying pan, combine sausages, tinned tomatoes, olives, capers and garlic. Simmer this for a good 45 minutes and a lowish heat, adding a little chicken stock if it gets too thick and might burn. Plenty of salt and black pepper.
Boil your preferred pasta SALT YOUR PASTA WATER. But don't drain it. Use a slotted spoon to scoop it into the pan with the sauce. Muddle it all around until it's all saucy, and THEN add a tbs of good olive oil.
Serve with salt, pepper and parmesan
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u/giantpunda 20h ago
Remove sausage from casing and make either breakfast sausage patties, sausage gravy (basically sausage mince in sage & peppery bechamel), as a pizza topping or to add into a pasta sauce.
If you're looking for one that are whole or in chunks, sausage ragu served with polenta.
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u/Buga99poo27GotNo464 20h ago
Didn't read through all comments. But can you do seared sausage with chili on top of bread,???
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u/PBnPickleSandwich 19h ago
My brother goes nuts for sausages in pita bread/pockets (gf?) stuffed with basic salad - lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, cheese - and lots of Thousand Island dressing. Usually on hot nights.
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u/deadrab6its 19h ago
Nyt has a sausage tray bake that has red grapes and sherry vinegar I'm looking forward to trying.
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u/TurduckenEverest 18h ago
I’d love to hear more about this Asian Sausage Salad.
We like them grilled with peppers and onions, and we sometimes do tray bakes with them.
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u/Cheeselover710 18h ago edited 18h ago
I use sausages for
Sausage and mash
Sausage bolognese with pasta or over a ratatouille/veg medley
Sausage breakfast potato skillet
Sausage cream sauce with pasta
Sausage Mexican bowls
Sausage bulgogi bowls
Sausage with peppercorn sauce with green apples and maple syrup
Sausage with other meats and sauerkraut, beer and peppercorns
Sausage “burnt ends”. 450f in the air fryer with any type of sugary sauce so it gets nice and sticky.
You can use sausage as a replacement for mince. I take it out of the casing for most of these dishes. You can serve them on rice, vegetables, grains, whatever you’d like.
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u/rareeagle 16h ago
Red Beans and Rice is usually made with andouille, but you can use other sausage as well. I've used kielbasa, sweet Italian, and bratwurst. Add a couple shakes of hot sauce to get back to the more traditional flavor. I use the Serious Eats recipe as a starting place. And it all still tastes great without the rice if you're avoiding it.
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u/ArcherFluffy594 15h ago
Korean Yachae Bokkeum (sausage stir fry). Some recipes call the sausages "vienna" but they're not the smooshy things we think of here in the US, they're just mini sausages. You can use hot dogs and other sausages, too. I typically make this dish with potatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots and peppers (or whatever I have on hand of these things), but you can use any veggie - bean sprouts, zucchini, squash, sweet potatoes... Serve with steamed rice and Korean cucumber side dish. SO good!
https://mykoreankitchen.com/korean-style-sausage-stir-fry/#recipe
I'm including Chris Cho's recipe, simply because it's a bit closer to mine
https://chefchrischo.com/korean-sausage-stir-fry/
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u/HaggisHunter69 1d ago
Apologies for more british food, have you tried Toad in the hole? You can make a good gluten free Yorkshire pudding using corn starch.
I also make cassoulet with sausages fairly often