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Slow-cooker sausage casserole

Name: Slow-cooker sausage casserole
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 3 h 15 min
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: olive oil, for frying; 8 herby sausages; 6 slices streaky bacon, chopped; 1 large leek, sliced; 1 clove garlic, sliced; 1 glass white wine; 100ml chicken stock; a pinch dried chilli flakes; 2 tbsp tomato purée; 3 roasted red peppers from a jar, chopped; 400g borlotti beans, drained and rinsed; a small bunch flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped

Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:15 mins
- Cook:3 hrs and 15 mins
Easy
Serves 4

Ingredients

olive oil, for frying
8 herby sausages
6 slices streaky bacon, chopped
1 large leek, sliced
1 clove garlic, sliced
1 glass white wine
100ml chicken stock
a pinch dried chilli flakes
2 tbsp tomato purée
3 roasted red peppers from a jar, chopped
400g borlotti beans, drained and rinsed
a small bunch flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped

Method

STEP 1
Heat the slow cooker to high. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and brown the sausages all over, making sure you get a really good colour on them. Remove from the pan then cook the bacon until crisp and golden.
STEP 2
Add the sausage and bacon to the slow cooker with the leeks, garlic, wine, stock, chilli flakes and tomato purée, then cook for 2 hours.
STEP 3
Add the peppers and beans and cook for another hour.
STEP 4
Season and stir in the parsley before serving.