It's now month 3 of the Swallow's Recipe for Life challenge on Banger's & Mash, and this month the 3 ingredients to use in a recipe are pork, sweetcorn & tomatoes. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be rustling up any cakes with those ingredients but there are lots of tasty meals that are going around in my head.
First up (as I'm sure I'll be entering more than one recipe again) is a nice & easy one, perfect for a midweek meal for the family. It's also a great way to stretch a pack of sausages without the family realising that they're only eating just over 1 sausage each!
It seems like there's a lot of ingredients but it's far from difficult to prepare, I don't even brown the sausages usually (saves on washing up), but you can if you prefer. You may also like to add some pineapple, but I don't as my children aren't keen on it.
Slow Cooker Sweet & Sour Sausages - serves 4/5
1 large onion, chopped
1 courgette, sliced
3 small carrots, sliced
1 tsp garlic puree (or 1 clove of fresh)
1 tsp ginger puree (or 1cm of fresh, grated)
400g tinned tomatoes
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tbsp cornflour, mixed with a little water
100g sweetcorn
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp brown sugar
454g pork & leek sausages, each cut into 4 pieces
1/4 empty can of water or stock
- Add all the ingredients to a slow cooker & give it a good stir
- Cook on high for 3-4 hours (or follow your instruction manual)
- Serve with boiled rice
After the success of my Mini Egg cookies I wanted to try out some new flavours using the same recipe as a starting point. Noticing that the We Should Cocoa theme for April is Honey, and having not joined in before, I thought I would see how I could incorporate some honey into the cookies, as well as chocolate of some kind of course, as that's the idea of the challenge.
If you're not keen on ginger this could be left out, or less added, but we like ginger and these were quite gingery, as well as being very buttery and sweet - a perfect treet for a non fasting day!
Honey & Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate Chunks
makes approx 20 cookies
110g Butter, softened
100g Caster sugar
30g Clear honey
1 large egg
150g SR Flour
1tbsp ground ginger (adjust according to taste)
100g white chocolate, chopped into small chunks
- Beat together the butter, sugar & honey
- Beat in the egg
- Add the flour, ginger & white chocolate & mix until combined
- Spoon balls of mixture onto a greased baking sheet, spaced well apart
- Bake in a preheated 170C oven for 9-10 minutes
- Leave to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely
Adapted from a Mary Berry recipe I used previously here
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