Easy sausage pasta bake
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 30 mins to 1 hour
- Serve
- Serves 4
- Dietary
- Nut-freePregnancy-friendly
You can easily double up this sausage pasta bake recipe and make one for the freezer, it will keep in the freezer for 2 months. Serve with a crisp green salad.
This is designed to be a low cost recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 8 thick pork sausages, skin removed, meat crumbled
- 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 300ml/10½fl oz vegetable stock
- 50g/1¾oz butter
- 50g/1¾oz plain flour
- 500ml/18fl oz milk
- 400g/14oz penne pasta
- salt and pepper
Method
Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6
Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the oil and gently cook the onion with a pinch of salt for 4-5 minutes or until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and continue to cook for 2 minutes.
Crumble in the sausagemeat and fry until coloured on all sides. Add the tomatoes and vegetable stock, season with a pinch of salt and pepper and turn down the heat. Gently simmer for 10 minutes while you make the white sauce.
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the flour and stir to mix. Cook over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes, or until the mixture has taken on a biscuit-coloured appearance. Slowly add the milk, bit by bit, whisking as you add to prevent any lumps from forming. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a simmer. Cook for 5 minutes to thicken slightly then remove from the heat.
Meanwhile cook the penne in a pan of salted boiling water according to the packet instructions. Once cooked, drain and pour into the pan with the sausage and tomato mixture. Mix well. Pour this into a medium-sized ovenproof baking dish. Pour over the white sauce and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until bubbling and golden.
Recipe tips
In May 2013 this recipe was costed at £2.72 at Asda, £3.41 at Tesco and £3.12 Sainsbury’s.
This recipe is designed to be made in conjunction with a
low-cost store-cupboard.
