Slow cooker aubergines
An easy vegetarian slow cooker recipe, packed with summer flavours - ideal if you're busy, simply put it on in the morning and it'll be ready come supper time
Sausage cassoulet
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 6
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- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 12 Toulouse-style sausages
- 200g bacon lardons
- 2 onionsfinely chopped
- 2 celerysticks, finely chopped
- 2 garlic clovescrushed
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- ½ bunch of thymeleaves picked and roughly chopped
- 200ml white wine
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 200ml chicken or veg stock(fresh or 1/2 a stock cube crumbled in 200ml water)
- 400g can butter beansdrained and rinsed
- 400g can haricot beansdrained and rinsed
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- crusty breadto serve (optional)
Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal501
- fat29g
- saturates9g
- carbs27g
- sugars11g
- fibre10g
- protein24g
- salt2.5g
Method
step 1
Set the slow cooker to low (ours had a 5-litre capacity). Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a high heat and brown the sausages on each side – you don’t have to cook them all the way through. Set aside on a plate. Put the lardons, onion and celery in the pan and cook over a medium heat for 8-10 mins until the onion is translucent and the lardons crisp. Stir in the garlic, paprika and thyme, and fry for 3 mins.
step 2
Pour in the wine and simmer until reduced by half, around 5-10 mins. Tip in the chopped tomatoes, stock, both lots of beans, the sugar and vinegar. Stir until combined and bring to the boil. Pour into the slow cooker with the sausages. Cover and cook for 6-8 hrs. Serve with crusty bread.
