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Eating veggie » Recipes » Cannellini Bean and Smoked Applewood Sausages

Cannellini Bean and Smoked Applewood Sausages

Prep time 10 mins, cook time 35 mins

Serves 4

Suitable for Freezing

These delicious sausages are the perfect veggie comfort food. They’re made with smoked paprika and Applewood cheese and are packed full of flavour.


Ingredients

For the sausages

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic crushed
  • 1 tsp smoked sweet paprika
  • 250g cooked cannellini beans
  • 50g wholemeal breadcrumbs
  • 100g vegetarian smoked Applewood cheese *use smoked tofu for vegan + 50g finely chopped hazelnuts
  • Freshly ground salt & pepper to taste
  • 2 large free-range eggs beaten (omit for vegan)
  • 50g wholemeal breadcrumbs for coating

For the mash

  • 1000g white potatoes and other seasonal root veg peeled and chopped
  • 100g kale chopped
  • 25g butter or vegan margarine
  • 2 tsp EPC hot horseradish

To serve

  • 500g broad beans
  • 500g peas

Method

  1. Fry the onions in oil until soft then add the garlic and smoked sweet paprika. Continue to fry for another 30 seconds.
  2. Put the fried onion mixture in a food processor along with the beans, breadcrumbs, cheese and season with salt and pepper. Process into a pate consistency.
  3. Roll the mixture into 8 sausages. You can freeze the sausages to cook another time at this step if you like.
  4. Dip each one in the beaten egg and then roll in the extra breadcrumbs. Shallow fry the sausages two at a time turning only when the bottoms have brown first to avoid them falling apart.*if doing vegan version coat in the nuts and grill under a moderate flame, turning occasionally.
  5. Make the mash by boiling the vegetables until soft around 20-25 minutes. Drain and mash thoroughly then stir in the butter or vegan margarine and horseradish.
  6. Serve the sausage with the mash, peas, broad beans and your favourite onion gravy.

Nutrition per serving

717.5 kcal

Calories

39.8g

Protein

21.4g

Fat

6.8g

Saturates

96.5g

Carbs

(0.4)g

Sugar

2.25825g

Salt

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