Looking for veggie breakfast sausage recipes

[marshlander]

We usually buy cauldron sausages for veggie breakfasts but I'd like to make my own - any recipes please?

[MrFalafel]

I usually buy the Sosmix sausge mix as its easy to add your own herbs and spices to your liking. Very cost effective, too.

If you want to make your own from scratch its really just a question of mixing mashed cooked beans with breadcrumbs and other ingredients and making sausages out of them. Here's a sample recipe you can use to start playing around with:

Mushroom and Coriander Sausages

Ingredients
· 2 tbsp olive oil
· 250g chestnut mushrooms finely chopped
· 2 garlic cloves crushed
· 2tbsp ground coriander
· 410g can aduki beans drained and rinsed
· 3-4 tbsp tahini
· 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
· 2 tbsp plain flour
· 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
· sunflower oil for shallow frying
· seasoning

Method
Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Add the mushrooms
and cook over a medium-high heat for 5 minutes until golden and all
the liquid has evaporated. Reduce the heat, add the garlic and ground
coriander and cook for a further 2 minutes stirring occasionally.
Remove form the heat. Set aside to cool.

Put the beans in a large bowl and mash roughly. Add the mushroom
mixture, tahini, breadcrumbs, flour and fresh coriander. Season and
mix together.


Divide the mixture into eight balls then using wet hands shape into a
sausage about 10cm long.

Clean the frying pan and pour in 1cm sunflower oil. Place over a moderate heat add the sausages and cook for 10 minutes, turning
occasionally until golden (you may need to do this in batches).

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Smoked Pepper and Butter Bean Sausages

Ingredients
1 tbsp sunflower oil
1 red pepper deseeded and finely chopped
1 yellow pepper deseeded and finely chopped
2 garlic cloves crushed
2 tsp pimenton (Spanish smoked paprika)
410g can butter beans drained and rinsed
3-4 tbsp tahini
75g fresh white breadcrumbs
sunflower oil, for shallow frying
seasoning

Method
Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the diced peppers over a
high heat for 5 minutes. Reduce the heat, add the garlic and fry for a
further 2 minutes. Stir in the pimenton and cook for 1 minute. Remove
from heat and allow to cool.

Place the butter beans in a large bowl and mash roughly. Add the
cooled pepper mixture along with the tahini and white bread crumbs,
season well and then combine thoroughly.

Divide mixture into eight balls and using wet hands, roll each into a
sausage measuring about 10cm long.

Clean the frying pan, pour in 1cm of sunflower oil and place over a
moderate heat. Add the sausages and cook for 10 minutes, turning
frequently, until heated through and golden brown (you may need to do
this in batches). Drain on kitchen paper.

[contadina]

Sosmix is very good - I usually mix mine (whenever any one kindly brings some over for me) with sage leaves and dried chillies.

Alternatively, here's a recipe for a herby/bread sausage

1 small onion
3oz of slightly stale bread
mixed herbs
1 1/2 oz butter
1 egg
oil for shallow fry
salt and pepper

Chop onions roughly, put in food blender with remaining ingredients except oil and whizz to combine, divide into 8 pieces and roll into sausage shapes and fry in oil for roughly 10mins until crisp and brown

You can deviate loads with this - by adding mashed beans, mushrooms, cheese, sun-dried toms or whatever else you happen to have in the fridge/larder.

[marshlander]

Brill! I shall start experimenting - thanks