Curried Sausages

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 links sausages (beef, chicken, lamb or lamb sausages)
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 onions
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
• 2 carrots, quartered, then cut into 1/2 in chunks
• 2 potatoes, diced
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons fruit chutney
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 (400 ml) can coconut milk
• 1 cup frozen peas (optional)
• salt and pepper
• fresh coriander (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 cover the sausages with cold water; bring to the boil and simmer about 5 minutes.
• 2 drain, cool, remove skins and cut each into 4 or 5 pieces.
• 3 heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry the onion, garlic and ginger, carrots and potatoes, stirring until the onions are soft. add the curry powder and cook a minute or two.
• 4 add the tomato paste, chutney, apple sauce, stock and coconut milk. stir well, then return the sausage chunks to the saucepan.
• 5 bring too the boil then cover and simmer about 45 minutes. remove the lid and allow to cook about 15 minutes more to reduce the sauce a bit. if you can’t be bothered, mix two tablespoon cornflour (corn starch) with 2 tablespoons water and stir this through to thicken.
• 6 1 cup of peas can be added in the last 15 minutes as well.
• 7 season with salt and pepper and serve garnished with copped fresh coriander.