Bangers &... tomatoes

Tonight's dinner is just something quick to prepare. Bangers & Tomatoes. Wack it all together in a big oven dish and let the oven work for you. simple, easy, but so tasty!

sausages, in this case mergez sausages, but any other kind will do fine
tomatoes, in any variety, big small, yellow, green, red, plumms, cherries, tasty tom's...
some olive oil
a spring onion
garlic to taste
fresh basil leaves
brown sugar
balsamic vinegar




Oil the oven dish with the olive oil. Halve or quater the bigger tomatoes, leave the smaller ones whole. Spread them over the bottom of the oven dish, filling the smaller gaps with the cherry tomatoes. Slice the garlic thinly and dress it in between the tomato bed. Do the same with the fresh basil leaves. Just push them in between the tomatoes. Sprinkle some balsamic vinegar over the tomatoes followed by a sprinkle of brown sugar. The sugar tends to accentuate the natural sweetness of the tomatoes when they're heated. Cut the spring onion with a pair of scissors into half a centimeter pieces. Scatter them over the tomatoes.
Now lay the sausages to bed in between and on top of the tomatoes. Just splash a last bit of olive il over the dish before sticking it into an oven pre-heated to 200 degrees celsius. Leave to cook for about 45 minutes.

Serve with some brown rice. Bon appetit !


Tomatoes are one of those things that you should always have around in the kitchen. So versatile in any dish, hot or cold. AS a snack or in a salad with some basil, mozarella and proscuitto. Or when overripe just make a wonderful tasty sauce of them, which you can use as a base for any mediteranean stew.