Cook Well for Less

Sausage & Bean Casserole

A familiar sausage, bean and tomato casserole for two, served with mash and linked to a second dinner that can use the rest of a larger sausage pack.

Prep
15 mins
Cook
45 mins
Total
60 mins
Difficulty
easy
Serves
2
Illustration: Sausage and cannellini bean tomato casserole beside mashed potato
Cook Well for Less · AI-generated pencil and watercolour illustration

Get ready

Ingredients for 2 portions

  • 4 pork sausages
  • 1 medium onionfinely chopped
  • 2 medium carrotsdiced small
  • 1 garlic clovecrushed
  • 1 × 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
  • 1 × 400 g tin cannellini beans, drained
  • 500g white potatoespeeled and chopped
  • 20g butter
  • 50ml milk

Optional extras

  • 1 tsp vegetable oil, only if needed
Equipment
  • large frying pan or casserole pan
  • saucepan
  • plate
  • chopping board
  • knife
  • potato masher

Cook

Method

  1. Brown the sausages

    Put a large frying pan or casserole pan over a medium heat. Add the sausages and cook for 6–8 minutes, turning them until well browned all over. Lift them onto a plate; they will finish cooking in the sauce.

  2. Soften the vegetables

    Add the onion and carrots to the sausage fat in the pan. Cook gently for about 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the teaspoon of oil only if the pan looks dry.

  3. Add the flavourings

    Stir in the garlic, tomato purée, smoked paprika and mixed herbs and cook for about 1 minute.

  4. Make the sauce

    Add the chopped tomatoes, drained cannellini beans, the measured prepared stock and Worcestershire sauce. Stir well.

  5. Simmer the casserole

    Return the sausages to the pan. Bring to a gentle simmer and cook uncovered for 25–30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the carrots are tender, the sauce has thickened and the sausages are cooked through with no pink meat in the middle.

  6. Make the mash

    While the casserole simmers, put the potatoes in a saucepan, cover with cold water and bring to the boil. Simmer until tender, then drain and leave them to steam for a minute or two. Mash with the butter and milk.

  7. Season and serve

    Taste the casserole and add black pepper if needed. Divide the mash between two plates and spoon over the sausage and bean casserole.

Make it stretch

Two dinners from one sausage pack

This two-portion casserole uses 4 sausages. If your pack contains 8, keep the other 4 for Sausage & Tomato Pasta.

The pasta uses the same useful onion, garlic, tomato purée, herbs and chopped tomatoes, so the shared shop works harder without making both dinners feel the same.

See how Make It Stretch works

  1. Illustration: Short pasta in rich sausage, tomato and vegetable sauce

    Another dinner

    Sausage & Tomato Pasta

    Remove the skins from the remaining sausages and cook the meat into a quick tomato sauce for pasta.

    Cook Sausage & Tomato Pasta

Use what you've got

Easy swaps

  • Garlic cloveUse 1 tsp garlic purée instead.
  • Dried mixed herbsDried thyme can be used instead.
  • Vegetable stock cubePrepare the same volume with chicken stock if available; allergen content may differ.

For later

Storing and using leftovers

Ideas

If you have cooked casserole left over, cool and refrigerate it promptly; confirm final storage and reheating guidance during review.

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