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Mashed Potatoes and Sausage Gravy Recipe
You can use any specialty or good quality sausages to make this classic comfort food dish. Try pork, beef, or even venison sausages. Lamb sausages are nice too. The wholegrain mustard gives a nice piquant flavor to the mashed potatoes, although you can use less if you want a slightly milder mustard flavor, and the red wine complements the red onions in the gravy. Serve this with your favorite seasonal green vegetables and this meal will be a real treat for your taste buds.
This wonderful recipe is made with caramelized onions and they are simmered very gently with brown sugar, which makes them mouthwateringly sweet, as a real contrast with the mustard and other savory ingredients. The rosemary is a nice touch but if you do not have any you can leave it off, since it is really just for garnish.
Maybe you have tried sausage and mashed potatoes before but this dish elevates the classic recipe to a whole new dimension, using gourmet ingredients like fine sausages, red wine, red onions, rosemary, and mustard. This dish is still comfort food but it is gourmet comfort food, which is quite a new concept!
Sausages and Mashed Potatoes with a Red Onion and Rosemary Gravy
Ingredients -
1 thinly sliced red onion
8 sausages
2 lbs peeled, chopped potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon all purpose flour
2 teaspoons brown sugar
½ cup warm milk
1 ½ cups hot beef stock
½ cup red wine
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
3 teaspoons wholegrain mustard
1 ¾ oz butter
Preparation:
Preheat the broiler.
Heat the oil in a skillet.
Add the oil and sugar, then cook gently for about 15 minutes or until caramelized.
Boil the potatoes for 15 minutes or until tender.
Broil the sausages for 15 minutes or until they are browned all over.
Sprinkle the flour over the onion and cook, stirring, for a minute.
Stir in the wine, Worcestershire sauce, and stock gradually.
Bring the gravy mixture to a boil, and then let it simmer gently while you mash the potatoes with the mustard, milk, and butter.
Serve the sausages on top of the mashed potatoes and pour the gravy over it.
Sprinkle the rosemary over the top and serve.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
This might be an easy recipe and dishes do not get much simpler than mashed potatoes with sausages, but this picture is almost art! Look how appealing the meaty sausages are on top of the creamy mash, and the gravy soaks into the whole dish, making this something that you can nearly smell through your monitor. You can choose which kind of sausage to use, but since the red onion gravy is so impressive, you might want to use gourmet sausages if you can get them. If you love comfort food, you will love this new take on a classic dish. It looks great and tastes incredible.
