Slow Cooker Sausage Casserole
You'll only need a handful of simple ingredients to make our flavour packed Slow Cooker Sausage Casserole. It's a budget dinner that you'll all LOVE!
Our easy Slow Cooker Sausage Casserole is so simple and makes the perfect cosy dinner for this time of year, it’s warming, filling and oh so good with a side of cheesy mashed potatoes.
Plus… we don’t just give you the delicious sausage stew recipe, we give you clever, tasty ways to make the meal stretch to feed more people, but still getting a delicious dinner! And, we've also popped some easy side dishes to go great alongside easy sausage recipes!
SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE CASSEROLE RECIPE
- Serves – 4 people
- Prep Time – 15 mins
- Cook Time – 4 hours (on the high temperature setting)
- Total Time – around 4 hours 15 minutes
- Our Most Popular Alternative – Chicken And Sausage Casserole
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
- Chopping board
- Vegetable knife
- Frying pan
- Tablespoon
- Slow cooker
- Wooden spoon
- Measuring jug
SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE CASSEROLE INGREDIENTS
You'll only need a handful of ingredients to make this easy slow cooker sausage casserole recipe.
- Chipolatas - choose any pork sausages you like, spicy, herby, flavoured, just get good quality sausages, with high meat content.
- Onion - diced
- Carrots - peeled and sliced
- Sticks celery - sliced
- Tomato puree
- Beef stock pot - we use Knorr stock pots
For calories and nutritional information see recipe card below
HOW TO MAKE SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE CASSEROLE
Step One - brown the sausages
- Preheat the slow cooker to high
- Put the frying pan over a medium-high heat and brown the pork sausages, turn them often and get some colour on each side.
Cooks Note! Browning the sausages is key! If you don't colour them up in a frying pan before slow cooking they just look not nice! Really, spend the extra 10 minutes and get some colour on your bangers!
Step Two - load the slow cooker casserole ingredients into the slow cooker pan
- Add the carrots, celery, onions, tomato puree and beef stock pot to the slow cooker pan, add the browned sausages and season with salt and black pepper if using.
- Then pour over 300ml of boiling water and mix gently to dissolve the stockpot into the casserole ingredients. Stir and then put the lid on.
Step Three - cook the sausage casserole in slow cooker
- Cook the sausage stew in the slow cooker on high for around 4 hours. If cooking on low it'll take around 7-8 hours.
Cooks Note! All slow cookers are slightly different temperatures and sizes and so food can cook at slightly different times. The best way to check food is heated through and cooked properly is by using a food thermometer.
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WHAT TO SERVE WITH SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE CASSEROLE
First up choose some carbs!
- Cheesy mash
- Mustard mash
- Air fryer jacket potatoes
- Air fryer roast potatoes
- Air fryer frozen chips
- Herby diced potatoes
- Air fryer tinned potatoes
- Crusty bread
- Dumplings - especially if you make them at home and add Cheddar cheese to the dumpling mixture. SO GOOD!
Second - add some more veggies - just cooked from the freezer is great!
I get it, when you're cooking for a family, the urge to add a side of veggies is strong! So for simplicity just add a side of frozen peas, sweetcorn or broccoli. Freezer vegetables are a great way of squeezing an extra portion of veggies into kids diets.
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HOW TO BULK UP CASSEROLE TO FEED MORE PEOPLE
When you cook from scratch it means you can easily bulk up meals with added ingredients when you need to!
- Add more vegetables - a diced swede, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers or butternut squash are great in a sausage casserole.
- Add in some pulses - tip in a can of butter beans or lentils to stretch the meal further.
- Chop up the sausages - if you're bulking up the casserole, chop the sausages into small pieces, that way they're easier to share out.
- Serve with double carbs - serve the meal with mashed potatoes and bread to help stretch the meal out.
- Need more gravy? Get our super easy onion gravy recipe here, it's a cheat recipe and we use Bisto granules. So it's good for when you need a bit extra.
EXTRA HERBS AND SEASONINGS TO ADD TO SLOW COOKER SAUSAGE CASSEROLE.
We just LOVE the basic pork sausage slow cooker stew, it's super simple, and always a hit with the kids. But you can add in some extras if you like.
Try adding income extra herbs - some mixed herbs - dried, some fresh thyme or a handful of chopped flat leaf parsley as you serve.
You could also add a splash of Worcestershire sauce, or crushed cloves of garlic. And if you wanted, you could add some tinned chopped tomatoes or go creamy, and stir a splash of cream through the gravy sauce.
LOVE YOUR LEFTOVERS
If you’ve got leftover stew, casserole or curry then grab our BRILLIANT leftover recipe ideas here – How To Use Up Leftover Stew and turn it into something new! Simple instructions for making easy meals with leftovers!
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MORE EASY SAUSAGE RECIPES TO TRY
- Sausage Pasta - the BEST Italian style sausage pasta dish we've ever made! So good!
- Sausage Meatballs - turn a pack of six sausages into meatballs to serve four people!
- Sausage Bap - tasty sausage baps with sticky onions.
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Slow Cooker Sausage Casserole
A super easy slow cooker sausage casserole recipe - great for family dinner!
Ingredients
- 12 sausages - we used chipolatas
- 1 onion - diced
- 4 carrots - peeled and sliced
- 2 sticks celery - sliced
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree
- 1 beef stock pot
- 300ml boiling water
Instructions
- Preheat the slow cooker to high
- Put the frying pan over a medium-high heat and brown the sausages, turn them often and get some colour on each side.
- Add the carrots, celery, onions, tomato puree and beef stock pot to the slow cooker pan, add the browned sausages and season with salt and black pepper if using.
- Then pour over 300ml of boiling water and mix gently to dissolve the stockpot into the casserole ingredients.
- Cook the sausage stew in the slow cooker on high for around 4 hours. If cooking on low it’ll take around 7-8 hours.
Notes
Cooks Note – if the gravy needs thickening do this with a couple of teaspoon of cornflour mixed into a paste with cold water and then stirred through the gravy and cooked for a few minutes to thicken.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 669Total Fat: 58gSaturated Fat: 19gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 30gCholesterol: 124mgSodium: 1853mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 2gSugar: 5gProtein: 26g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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Wendy is the creator of Daisies & Pie, a UK food blog sharing easy meals and home lifestyle tips since 2012
