Sausages with borlotti beans

Sausages with borlotti beans
  • Serves icon Serves 4
  • Time icon 1½ hours hands on time, plus soaking and cooking the beans

If you’ve tried our easy sausage casserole, here’s an alternative. Borlotti beans go brilliantly with sausages and cabbage in this satisfying supper.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
633kcals
Fat
44.9g (13.9g saturated)
Protein
23.6g
Carbohydrates
35.8g (12g sugars)
Salt
3.4g
Calories
633kcals
Fat
44.9g (13.9g saturated)
Protein
23.6g
Carbohydrates
35.8g (12g sugars)
Salt
3.4g

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 onions, diced
  • 50g dry-cured bacon, diced
  • 6 fresh sage leaves
  • 3 whole garlic cloves
  • 1 medium savoy cabbage, outer leaves and core discarded, shredded
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 110g dried borlotti beans, soaked and cooked until very tender
  • 8 premium sausages of your choice
  • 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

Method

  1. Heat the olive oil in a very large, wide casserole over a medium heat. Add the onions and bacon and fry for a few minutes. Stir in the sage, garlic, tomato purée and some salt. Reduce the heat to low, cover and sweat for 20 minutes.
  2. Add the beans and their liquor to the cabbage. Cook for 30 minutes or until some of the beans are breaking up. Season and remove from the heat.
  3. Meanwhile, griddle or fry the sausages for 10-12 minutes or until cooked through and golden.
  4. Fold the mustard and olive oil into the beans, divide between plates and lay the sausages on top.

delicious. tips

  1. To cook the beans: Soak in plenty of water for at least a couple of hours, preferably overnight. Drain thoroughly and rinse, then transfer to a saucepan and add cold unsalted water to cover the beans by a few centimetres. Bring to the boil and cook rapidly for 15 minutes, removing any scum. Reduce the heat and simmer until tender. Keep the cooked beans in their stock, unseasoned, until you wish to use them.

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