CREAMY SAUSAGE RICE, frugal, quick & easy, vegan option

A quick creamy sausage sauce on carbs makes an ambrosial meal...

Frugal but Fabulous Sausages in Cream over carnival rice

This thrown-together meal was so delicious, cook was almost dancing 'round the room. 

It was a quick solution to ravenous hunger on an indulgence day and  - apart from the cream - is lower in fat than normal.  But it didn't cost the earth.

The sauce can be served over pasta but the Blogger had run out; quick-cook* rice, ready in 12 minutes, was a happy compromise.  And it looked lovely studded with colourful vegetables.

The best, leanest sausages you can afford -- venison or wild boar - will ensure the dish is as healthy as it can be.  Only 2 or 3 are needed so costs are kept to a minimum.  

Poaching the sausages first releases excess fat. 

Cost: £1.50
Feeds: 1 but multiplies easily

Ingred:
   2-3 high meat sausages

   1/3 - 1/2 cup rice
   small handfuls peas and/or cubed red bell pepper and/or corn
   2 small spring onions, white and green, thinly sliced    
   1/4-1/3 cup whipping (lowest fat), single or double cream (maximum fat)

   pepper & salt

Method:

1. Pierce the sausages in several places with a fork; drop into boiling water, turn off heat; leave 10 mins
2. Cook rice according to instructions; 5 minutes before the end of cooking, scatter over peas, pepper and corn plus half the spring onion
3. Heat a frying pan on med-high; spray with peanut or light veg oil
4. Slice sausages thickly, brown on both sides - 1-2 mins
5. Reduce heat to simmer; add cream; season with salt & pepper
6. Stir veg into rice; pour sausages & sauce over; garnish with remaining spring onions

Comments:
'So delicious for something so fast and easy - one couldn't ask for more in a busy life.' Retired writer   

Tips: 

• Poaching several sausages in one go will provide a nice back-up in the freezer 

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This recipe has been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.