Opening the door to our freezer last week while attempting to put away our fortnightly shopping , I was met with an avalanche of bread, icy poles and sausages – and not just one package of sausage but three. Given I was trying to find space for yet ANOTHER pack, I knew I needed to cook some soon! They are just one of those things I regularly pop into the trolley each time I shop. I know they are not the most nutritious food, but all THREE of the boys enjoy them and I’m always guaranteed to have empty plates after dinner. My boys are also crazy for carbs, so it seemed natural to pair two of their favourite things together. A further raid of the pantry and fridge and we had all the ingredients to create a Curried Sausage Pasta Bake.
I had planned on using just four sausages for this recipe, but while my back was turned my little helper decided to dunk an extra sausage into the curry powder… so five sausages it was!
It took no time to put this together. I pre cooked everything before combining it in a 20cm square casserole dish, adding the chopped tomatoes (I originally planned to use just one tin, but felt it needed some extra sauce) and cheese before popping it into the oven.
My little helper was by my side the whole time, eager to help mix everything together and he may have eaten half of the cheese I had planned to use.
While this isn’t anything fancy, it still tasted great and all four of us enjoyed it. Our version was quite mild so the boys could still eat it, I had been planning to add a tablespoon of curry powder, but reduced it slightly after I had no choice but to add the curry coated fifth sausage. You could sneak some veggies in if you like, I’m thinking some mushrooms, zucchini and even eggplant would be great – but we were happy to enjoy it with our greens on the side.
Curried Sausage Pasta Bake
Ingredients
- 4 approximately 260g beef, herb and garlic sausages - you can use any flavour though.
- 2 x 400g tins of crushed tomatoes
- 2 cloves of crushed garlic
- 2 teaspoons of curry powder - you can add less/more if you prefer
- 1 brown onion
- 3/4 cup of cheddar cheese - again feel free to substitute for another variety if you prefer
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- salt & pepper to taste
- 250 g of dried spiral pasta
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees (fan forced)
- Heat water in a medium saucepan over a high heat. When the water begins to boil, add the pasta and cook as per packet instructions.
- Finely chop the onion and set aside.
- Cut the uncooked sausages into small pieces and also set aside - using kitchen scissors is the easiest way to do this.
- Place a frypan over a medium high heat, add oil and once it starts to warm up, add the onion, garlic, curry powder and cook for a two minutes, stirring as you go.
- Add sausage pieces and cook for approximately 10 minutes or until the sausages have browned and are almost cooked through. Remove from heat.
- Drain pasta and tip it into a 20cm square oven safe casserole dish. Add cooked sausage, onion, garlic and curry mixture before carefully pouring both tins of crushed tomatoes over the top. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper and add approximately 1/4 cup of grated cheese.
- Using a large metal spoon, carefully mix ingredients all together until combined.
- Sprinkle remaining cheese over the top and place into oven for 35 minutes, or until the cheese has melt and begins to turn brown.
- We enjoyed this with steamed beans and broccoli, but it's also yummy enough to eat on it's own. This recipe made enough to feed two adults and two toddlers and there was also enough left over to freeze.
What food do you always have in your freezer? Are your kids crazy for carbs too?
Maria @ Mummy Goes Mad says
So easy! Yum. I have about 10 thousand kilos of sausage in the freezer right now so this is perfect!! I think this is definitely on the menu this weekend. I like to keep it as simple as possible on weekends, I’m just far too lazy for weekend effort. 🙂 x
Lauren @ Create Bake Make says
It’s good to hear I’m not the only one who stashes them away! I’m with you, it’s easy meals all the way on the weekend. Hope you are having a great one 🙂
Cathy says
Quick and easy meals are great – and if everyone eats the dish, that’s an added bonus (rare around here)! Thanks for hosting and sharing 🙂
Lauren @ Create Bake Make says
It sure is, I really don’t like preparing different meals for everyone. Thank you for joining us, hope to see you again next week 🙂
Amanda Smyth says
My kids are crazy for carbs too. They’d eat pasta at every meal if I let them! I’m on a similar empty the freezer mission – there was a nasty mulberry juice incident a few weeks back and I’m still discovering the effects!
Lauren @ Create Bake Make says
Yep, my boys could happily exist on bread and pasta alone! Good luck with your clean up, that sounds messy 🙁
Hope says
Yum this is great. I think it’s a rite of passage – that all kids love carbs, specifically pasta. My kids are the fussiest, pickiest kids in the world. But they do enjoy the sausage tomato pasta from Five Degrees of Chaos, and I will be trialling your curried sausage pasta bake on them soon just to change things up a bit!
Lauren @ Create Bake Make says
Ooh, I hope they like it!
MumsTakeFive says
mine arent crazy for pasta …i dunno why. Sausages yes! they want those all the time. I always have lemon slices in the freezer.
Alicia-OneMotherHen says
I think my kids would actually go for this! They love their pasta and sausages. I may have to rethink the curry though x
Anne says
This one looks really good – I love curried sausages and combined with pasta (another favourite) it would have to be a winner.
laurenm83 says
Thanks Anne, it’s pretty popular in our house 🙂