Sausage Tray Bake With Honey & Mustard

Looking for a lip smackingingly good sausage dinner recipe? Say hello to our sausage tray bake with sticky honey and mustard sausages. Super easy to make and oh so delicious to eat!

You just can't beat a good old sausage and veg tray bake for an easy weeknight meal idea.

Choose your favourite sausages jumble them together with seasonal sweet potatoes or butternut squash, juicy peppers and tangy onions and bake.

Sticky sausages marinated with honey and mustard are just so good! All you'll need on the side of this sausage tray bake is some crusty bread for mopping up the juices!

Sausage Tray Bake Recipe

Serves – 4 people 

Prep Time – 10 minutes 

Cook Time – 30 minutes (add extra time if using thicker sausages)

Total Time – 40 minutes

Our Most Popular Alternative – Easy Sausage Casserole

Equipment Needed

• Chopping board

• Sharp knife

• Mixing bowl

• Fork

• Baking tray or large roasting tin

• Tablespoon

• Teaspoon

• Small bowl

Sausage Tray Bake Ingredients

You'll only need a handful of delicious, tasty ingredients to make our easy sticky sausage traybake

• 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 1 red onion - chopped into wedges

• 2 red peppers - chunkily chopped

• 4 sweet potatoes - peeled and chopped into bitesized pieces

• 16 chipolata sausages - we usually use Black Farmer chipolatas for this sausage bake recipe

• 2 tablespoon honey - you could swap this for maple syrup if you prefer

• 2 teaspoon wholegrain mustard

Optional - sprigs of rosemary and thyme, cloves garlic, apple wedges

For calories and nutrition information see recipe card below

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How To Make Sausage Tray Bake

You'll love how easy our sausage and veg tray bake is to make, and how easy it is to add your own twist with simple swaps

Step One - preheat the oven

• Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F / Gas Mark 6 - grab our oven temperature conversion chart with printable here.

Step Two - prepare the vegetables

• Add the chopped sweet potatoes, peppers and onion to a mixing bowl.

• Sprinkle in a pinch of salt and black pepper if using.

• Pour over the olive oil and shake the bowl so that all the veg is coated in oil.

Step Three - arrange the sausage on the baking tray

• Tip the vegetables onto the large baking tray.

• Arrange the sausages amongst the vegetables, making sure they're touching the baking tray and not piled on top of the vegetables.

Step Four - make the honey and mustard marinade

• Take a small bowl and mix together the honey and mustard, feel free to adjust the quantities and add more/less as you like.

Step Five - cook the sausage tray bake with sweet potatoes

• Put the sausage tray bake into the oven and cook for 20 minutes.

• Then remove from the oven, turn the sausages over and then pour over the honey and mustard marinade over the traybake.

• Return the tray bake recipe to the oven and cook for a further 15 minutes or until the sausages are cooked through properly and the vegetables tender.

Make Sausage And Veg Tray Bake Your Way

There's loads of ways to make our traybake idea your own, just swap out the ingredients to suit you. We've popped some popular suggestions below!

Swap the sausages

You can make this tray bake recipe with any sausages you like. Veggie sausages, plant based, chicken sausages, beef, or try flavoured pork sausages like a pork and chilli version for a real spicy kick!

Use different vegetables

You can add in extra vegetables or swap any you don't like. Try...

• courgettes

• fennel

• cherry tomatoes

• baby new potatoes sliced

• carrot batons

• chunks of swede

• broccoli or cauliflower florets

• parsnips

Change the marinade

Swap the honey and mustard marinade for any other you like! Try chilli jam, orange marmalade, sweet chilli sauce or even hoisin sauce for a different take on our classic. You could also add in some dried basil or oregano if you like to use herbs in the sausage traybake.

Grab our step by step guide on how to cook sausages in the air fryer here.

What To Serve With Sausage Tray Bake

Our sausage tray bake recipe is delicious served as a simple supper with some thickly sliced crusty bread smothered in butter.

But there's lots of other ways to serve your chipolatas sausages recipe!

• With a dollop of mustard mash potatoes

• With some chunky oven chips and ketchup

• With carrot and swede mash

• With some gnocchi tossed in herby butter

• Pile the sausages and roasted vegetables into a warm baguette and melt some cheese over.

More Easy Sausage Recipes To Try!

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• Cowboy Pie – proper old school comfort food – a sausage and smoky baked bean pie topped with fluffy, cheesy mashed potatoes. 

• Sausage Hotpot - a warming one pot that's perfect for autumn and winter dinner with the family.

• Sausage Pasta - a rich, hearty, Italian style sausage pasta dish that's bursting with flavour and super easy to make!

• Slow Cooker Sausage Casserole - a delicious, easy, budget friendly recipe that's great for feeding a family - we also show you loads of delicious side dishes to go alongside.

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