A Sicilian recipe from Diana Henry.
Ingredients
- 8 fat spicy Italian sausages
- 6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 tsp dried chilli flakes more if your sausages aren’t that spicy
- 1/4 tsp fennel seeds toasted and bashed a bit
- 2 onions peeled and finely sliced
- 450 g waxy or floury potatoes peeled (if floury) and cut into slices about ½cm thick,
- 3 plump cloves garlic peeled and finely sliced
- 1 red and 1 yellow pepper halved, deseeded and sliced
- 250 g tomatoes sliced
- 30 g grated pecorino
- 2 tbsp roughly chopped parsley or the leaves of 4 sprigs of oregano
Servings:
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas mark 5.
- Cut each sausage into three, widthways. Heat 2 tbsp of the olive oil in a wide, fairly shallow ovenproof dish or pan (about 30cm across). Quickly brown the sausages – just to get a bit of colour, not cook them through.
- Add the chilli and fennel seeds and cook for another minute. Toss in the onions, potatoes, garlic and peppers and season.
- Add another couple of tablespoons of olive oil (unless a lot of fat has come out of the sausages – some exude a lot, others don’t). Finish tossing, leaving most of the sausage lying on top.
- Cook in the oven for 20 minutes. Take the dish out of the oven and stir everything round. Put the tomatoes on top, season, sprinkle on the cheese and drizzle on a little more oil.
- Put back in the oven and cook for another 30-40 minutes (or until everything is golden and the potatoes are soft), gently stirring in your herbs 10 minutes before the end. Serve from the dish.
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