Quick and easy dinner recipes to cook have always been something I have looked for, and they don’t get easier than this sticky sausage tray bake.
For this dish, I followed Taming Twins’ Sarah Rossi’s recipe but made one swap. She describes this recipe as being the “easiest ever” traybake.
The meal combines sausages with veggies and is made better with one unusual ingredient – marmalade.
Sarah made a note to say that “even if you think you don’t like marmalade”, it “adds heaps of taste” to the dish and she was 100 percent right.
Like Sarah, I’m not the biggest fan of marmalade and though it sounded weird to add it to a savoury dish, it actually works to enhance the flavour of the vegetables and pairs surprisingly well with the sausages.
Any type of marmalade is fine to use, I used the Sainsbury’s version which retails for 79p, but it can be picked up in any local supermarket.
Catering the traybake to what veggies I already had, I swapped leeks for red peppers.
Ingredients
Two onions, peeled and cut into chunks
Three carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
Two peppers, cut into strips
Four large baking potatoes, cut into large chunks
500g pork sausages
One tablespoon of olive oil
one tablespoon of dried thyme
Salt and pepper
100g marmalade
Method
I started by preheating the oven to 200C before chopping and measuring the ingredients.
Next, I put the vegetables and sausages into a large baking dish and coated them with olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper.
I then let it bake for 45 minutes until everything was just starting to turn golden. Make sure to leave yours a little longer if this is not the case.
At this point, I flipped the sausages, spooned over the marmalade and placed it back in the oven to cook for a final 15 minutes.
The sausage traybake was delicious. Next time, I would probably add one less potato and add in more veg like courgettes and leeks.
This traybake is great for leftovers as lunch or dinner the following day; in fact, it tastes more flavourful the next day.
