Autumnal Sausage Pie With Sweet Potato Crust
Preparation time: 5 mins | Cooking time: 35 mins | Serves 4-6 | You will need a large ovenproof dish
Ingredients
454g Kearns pork sausages
25g butter
1 large leek, finely sliced
250g mushrooms, cleaned and quartered
30g plain flour
300ml hot chicken stock
100ml double cream
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
125g baby spinach leaves
A small handful of chives, finely chopped
Freshly milled salt and black pepper
For the potato crust
4 large sweet potatoes, peeled and grated
25g butter, melted
Method
Preheat an oven to 200ºC (180ºC fan) / Gas Mark 6.
Place sausages into a large non stick frying pan and cook for 3 – 4 minutes until golden, turning as they cook. Remove and keep warm.
Melt butter in the frying pan and fry the leeks until soft, then add mushrooms and continue to fry until golden.
Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute, then gradually add the stock, stirring constantly until the sauce is smooth. Reduce the temperature and simmer for 10 minutes until thick.
Stir in cream, mustard, spinach, chives and season well. Return the sausages to the mixture and pour into a large ovenproof dish.
Top with grated sweet potato, brush with melted butter and bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes until the potato is tender and crisp on top.
Serve with green salad.
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