Spicy Bean And Sausage Stew

Sausages With Spicy Beans

Sausage And Mixed Bean Stew

When you are cooking on a budget, beans and pulses are a great, delicious and healthy resource for creating nourishing and tasty meals at low cost. You can make this recipe in fact without the sausages – but the sausages make a rather lovely additional flavour – especially if you are a sausage lover! You can use good quality pork sausages or vegetarian sausages.

This spicy sausage and bean stew is really easy to make and can be adapted for both evegetarians and meat eaters. Low cost too!

Easy To Cook For Veggies And Carnivores

It is very easy to make a vegetarian and and meat casserole at the same time. The spicy bean base is cooked the same. When it is ready, you can just split it between two casserole dishes and then add the appropriate sausages to each. Both casseroles then go in the oven.

Reduce Price Food – Reduce Waste

I used chipolata sausages as there some good quality ones that were reduced in my local supermarket at the end of the day. It is often possible to get very reduced meat this way. I prefer to buy from butchers and local food stores so I can find out the exact source of the meat but shopping at the end of the day in the supermarket is such a good way of keeping within your budget as well as reducing food waste as much of the supermarket food that doesn’t get eaten will get thrown away.

Although consumers are often cited as throwing away up to £50 of the the food they buy every month there is a lot of food waste that happens before the food reaches the consumer. But a good deal of food waste happens on the way to the supermarkets and by the supermarkets themselves. so buying reduced food at the end of the day not only saves you money, but lightens the load of food waste too.

But I have two rules on buying reduced price food. I only buy it if it is something I would buy anyway or if it is something I will only buy at a reduced price because I consider it too expensive otherwise. You will need to use it immediately or put it straight in the freezer if it is freezable.

There is no point in buying bargain food only to throw it away a couple of days later – the supermarket would have done that for you for free!

Spicy Beans

Make the stew as spicy as you like. Use more or less chilli powder according to the strength of the powder and how spicy you like it. Test the sauce before you add the sausages.

Serve with potatoes and a favourite vegetable. Try purple sprouting broccoli, mashed swede or cabbage