This 6 ingredient, no prep, Lincolnshire sausage and pepper casserole, was made using Bramwells Sausage Casserole Mix, which can be bought from Aldi for about 19-22p. This can be used in a slow cooker; their recipe on the packet says it’s for the oven.

With a pack of 8 Lincolnshire sausages that needed to be used up, I really needed to get round to using them up. I also had some green peppers and yellow peppers lurking in the freezer, so, along with a few more ingredients, the easiest no prep meal to make seemed to be a Lincolnshire Sausage & Pepper Casserole! Serves 3-4.

Ingredients:

• One pack of eight sausages, ~454 grams. I used Lincolnshire sausages, but whatever you’ve got will do
• 1-2 small peppers, cut into small pieces
• 4-6 small/medium carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 tin of chickpeas (or any other tin you’ve lurking that’s similar will do!)
• 1 medium onion, sliced/chopped
• 1 packet of Bramwell’s sausage casserole mix + 300ml water

Method:

1. Add the raw carrots, peppers and onion to the slow cooker.
2. Drain and rinse the chickpeas and add to the slow cooker.
3. Remove the skins from the sausages, break into half (or smaller pieces) and roll by hand into balls and drop them into the slow cooker. It’s best if they don’t touch each other else they might stick together.
4. Make up the sausage casserole mix with 300ml of cold water and put that into the slow cooker. 300ml is what this particular packet suggests. If you think it looks a little low on water, you can always add a small splash more, later, or see how it goes
5. Turn the slow cooker on high for about an hour, until it’s all bubbling.
6. Turn the slow cooker down and continue to cook for 3-4 hours.

What To Serve With Sausage Casserole:

My first serving of this Lincolnshire Sausage & Pepper Casserole was with a portion of spaghetti, because that’s the quickest and easier food to serve it with and I’d already stood and smelt and waited for it for hoooouuuurrrs! A bit later I got a wide necked mug and helped myself to another portion and simply ate a portion on its own.

Use Cheap Spaghetti: I use the cheap, supermarket, spaghetti as a rule – e.g. Tesco Hearty Food Company 500g spaghetti costs just 20p. That’s 3p/portion (as I tend to serve about 1/6th of a pack).

Sausage casserole is also great with mashed potato, or served in a giant Yorkshire Pudding!

Menu Cost:

The sausages cost £1.25, the sausage casserole mix about 19p, the carrots were 30p, tin of chickpeas about 40p, one onion about 10p, 1½ peppers from a multipack were about 30p. The total cost was therefore about £2.60 and it served four portions. The spaghetti I served my sausage casserole mix with was the Hearty Food Company Spaghetti at 20p/500gram pack, so cost about 3p for one portion.

If you purchased a single portion of sausage casserole in a supermarket ready meal range it’d probably cost you this much or more, yet you now have four hearty portions for very little cash outlay!

Bramwells Sausage Casserole Mix Review

Once out of the packet, this sausage casserole mix had a very strong “instant tomato soup” smell and it made up to quite a good consistency.

The taste was very smooth – and I much preferred it to the Asda sausage casserole mix I tried a couple of months ago.

I would definitely buy this sausage casserole mix again.

2022 Price Update:

I was just in Tesco and noticed that the price of the Hearty Food Company spaghetti has gone up. It’s increased in cost from 20p to 23p. If you’re a fan of statistics, that’s a 6% increase. Not too bad still, but many stores are withdrawing their cheapest ranges from sale, so it can be hard to track product prices over time.

The Bramwells Sausage Casserole mix is still 19p for 39g.

I probably used the Aldi Butcher’s Select Ashfield Farm 8 Cumberland Sausages 454g in the original recipe. They’re now priced at £1.39.

This meal would still cost under £3 in total, so still on the menu!

Saving Money on Sausage Casserole

This sausage casserole could be made even cheaper by buying frozen sausages. e.g. Aldi Oakhurst Irish Recipe Pork Sausages cost £1.69 (£2.11/Kg) – but it’s a pack of 16, so only half would be needed.