Family or Duo Pleasing Baked Sausages
Adapted from Fergus Henderson's recipe
Serves 2
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4 sausages (2 per person, good quality ones, I used Eumundis)
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1 red onion, sliced
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1 clove garlic, chopped
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1 tablespoon oil
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1x 425g tin chopped tomatoes
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1/2 cup white or red wine
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1 cup instant polenta (fine or coarse)
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3.5 cups water
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1 knob of butter (a tablespoon or so)
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Salt
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50grams/1.7oz wild rocket
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Mustard vinaigrette
Step 1 - Preheat oven to 180C/350F. In a cast iron pot or an oven proof pot with lid (or you can cover a baking dish with foil) and brown the sausages in oil. Once browned, turn onto low heat and cook onion and garlic until soft. Add tomatoes and wine and cover with lid and bake for 1 hour. Busy yourself during this time by doing crucial things like reading trashy magazines in the bath to catch up on essential world current affairs.
Step 2 - When 50 minutes has passed, you can start on the polenta. It doesn't take long to do especially if it's the instant kind. In a medium sized pot, bring the water to the boil and add 2 teaspoons of salt. Using a whisk, add in polenta whisking constantly to get rid of any lumps. Add in butter and keep whisking-it will end up being like mashed potato.
Step 3 - Scoop the polenta into a large bowl or individual bowls. Place sausages on top with the tomatoes. As Fergus says "Discipline rocket with a few chops and dress in mustard and vinaigrette. Then make a like a dumper truck with the rocket on top of your dish - something green for the children to complain about".