England again!   


This is a quick and easy meal for a cold winter's night! 

Bangers and Mash

Bangers

Bangers are what we Brits call sausages and mash, of course, is mashed potatoes. There are over  over 400 types of bangers in the UK, differentiated by the meats (pork, beef, venison, lamb etc), seasonings and other ingredients used to form them. 90% of us eat them almost weekly for breakfast, lunch or dinner and the industry is worth over £659 million per year. Make sure you get good quality bangers!

Bangers used here are Pork and Leek, Scottish Beef and Black Pepper and Chipolatas

Mash

Mashed Potatoes can be plain but in this dish I added English Cheddar Cheese and Chives

English Cheddar Cheese

An easy trick is to grill the sausages for half the cooking time then place them on top of the aubergines (eggplant), sweet peppers, courgettes (zucchini)  red onions, rosemary and coarse black pepper and roast the lot in the oven until the sausages are finally cooked.

Make your favourite brown gravy using some of the sausage and vegetable dripping,
garnish with  fresh basil. If you're in England, you could cheat and use Bisto Caramelized Onion Gravy and add a dash of red wine!