Recipes - Sausage Hotpot
The great idea of hotpot is to use up what you have around (‘hotch potch'), and often the ingredient that you hadn't though about and put in, turns out to be the star. Over Christmas time, it's quite possible to end up with pre-cooked sausages, and these work just as well. This is simple, uncomplicated, and quick to make, a good taste after rich foods.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC / 350ºF / Gas 4.
Heat the olive oil in a casserole, put in the sausages and colour all round, about 4 minutes. Take out and keep to one side.
Cut the bacon into large strips and colour in the oil in the casserole, about 3-4 minutes. Add the chopped onion and garlic, and turn down the heat. Add the drained soaked beans, the tomato, carrots and stock and bring back to the boil. Season.
Add the sausages, put a lid on the casserole, and cook in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
Add the potatoes to the hotpot, stir and put back in the oven with the lid off. Cook for another 20 minutes.
When cooked take out, sprinkle with parsley and serve.
