Easy Eats: Curried sausages
Curried sausages are a delicious, nostalgic cool-weather dish. They’re economical, and hugely tasty.
- prepare
- cook
- 6 servings
- Easy
This recipe makes a generous amount so you’ll have leftovers for lunch the next day. The curry sauce is really simple to prepare and will work well with either mild curry powder or hot. Use whatever is your preference.
Serve with creamy mash – I love using kumara for this – or steamed rice.
Turn this into a vegetarian dish by using vegetarian sausages instead of pork sausages and vegetable stock instead of chicken stock. If using vegetarian sausages, brown them as per the recipe but hold off adding them to the sauce until the last few minutes of cooking so they don’t dry out.
Store-bought stocks can vary hugely in salt levels so I tend to buy low-salt if that is an option. Otherwise you may not need to add any additional salt
I tend to add a little splash of soy sauce to many of the savoury dishes that I make as it add a lovely bit of umami flavour.
Ingredients
- Oil for sautéing
- 900g pork sausages
- 1 ½ onions, diced
- 3 garlic cloves, diced
- 5 tsp curry powder (use mild or hot according to preference)
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 3 Tbsp plus 1 tsp plain flour
- 3 ½ cups low-salt chicken stock
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- Salt and cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Heat a drizzle of oil in a sauté pan over a medium heat. Add the sausages and brown well. They do not need to be cooked through - they’ll be added to the sauce to simmer later. Set the sausages aside.
- Wipe out the pan and add another drizzle of oil, along with the onions. Cook until tender and translucent. Add the garlic and cook for a minute or two. Add the curry powder and give it 30 seconds in the pan before adding the butter. Once that has melted, add the flour and let this cook for a minute before gradually adding the stock, whisking constantly.
- Bring to a boil and add the carrots and soy sauce.
- Cut the sausages into 2cm slices and add this to the pan. Simmer for 10 minutes, adding the peas in the last minute of cooking.
- Taste and season well.
