Beef sausage with sweet potato
This oven-baked dish combines beef sausages and roasted sweet potato with garlic, rosemary and warming spices. The butter and spices give the sweet potato a spiced flavour as it roasts.
Serves: 4 people
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 45 minutes
Total time: 60 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 beef sausages
- approximately 1 kg sweet potato, before peeling
- 75 g butter
- 1 bulb of garlic
- 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- 2 sprigs of rosemary
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Preparation
- Soften the butter
Take the butter out of the refrigerator in good time and leave it to soften at room temperature. - Prepare the sweet potato
Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into pieces of approximately 3 cm. - Prepare the garlic
Cut the top off the bulb of garlic so that the tops of the cloves are exposed. - Prepare the rosemary
Strip the rosemary leaves from the sprigs and roughly chop them. - Make the spiced butter
Mix the softened butter with the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Season with salt and black pepper.
Method
- Preheat the oven
Preheat the oven to 200 °C. - Roast the sweet potato
Spread the sweet potato over a large ovenproof dish. Mix with approximately two-thirds of the spiced butter and the rosemary. Place the bulb of garlic among the sweet potato and spread a little spiced butter over the cut surface. Roast in the oven for 20 minutes. - Brown the sausages
Meanwhile, melt a small amount of the remaining spiced butter in a frying pan over a medium-high heat. Brown the beef sausages on all sides. They do not need to be cooked through on the inside yet. - Add the sausages
After 20 minutes, remove the ovenproof dish from the oven and turn the sweet potato. Place the browned sausages among the sweet potato and spread the remaining spiced butter over them. - Cook the dish through
Return the dish to the oven for another 20–25 minutes, until the sweet potato is soft and golden brown around the edges and the sausages are cooked through. If in doubt, check that the sausages have reached a core temperature of at least 70 °C. - Serve the dish
Leave the dish to stand for a few minutes. If desired, squeeze the soft roasted garlic out of the skins and distribute it over the sweet potato and sausages.
