Big Winter Sausage Casserole

This makes a MASSIVE pot of sausage casserole, so you might want to half or cut down the recipe to make a smaller quantity but I made a big cart load so that I could freeze it and have it through the week. I found that this turned out best when I mixed up the casserole the night before, and divided it into pots and when cooled popped it in the fridge. The flavors got stronger and the casserole thickened. The following day I grilled the sausages and added them. Next I boiled the potatoes and added them too. I popped them in the oven at 200 degrees for 15mins. You could microwave them though for a quick dinner. Alternatively, leave the potatoes out and have a pile of mash on the side! DONT leave the red wine out, it's absolutely essential and gives such a nice smell when you take the casserole out of the oven, and a great taste!

Serves: 10
Total Quantity: ?
Serving size: ?
Calories: 3400 cals total, 340cals per serving

Ingredients:
Teaspoon garlic purée
500g Red Onion - in thin slices (185kcal)
300g Celery - finely diced (51kcal)
400g Red Pepper - cut chunky (120kcal)
450g Carrots - Half lengthways, then slice (126kcal)
400g Mushrooms - Thick Slices (52kal)
200g Sweetcorn (164kcal)
Tin of Haricot beans Drained - 235g (150kcal)
2 tins Chopped tomatoes (208kcal)
200ml Red wine (160kcal)
Tin of baked Beans +juice - I use Tesco's value beans as I find that they have the lowest calories and are cheap (210kcal)
2 tablespoons Tom purée (28kcal)
500ml chicken stock (20kcal)
20g corn flour (73cal)
3 bay leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
3 tsp oregano
2 tsp smoked paprika
2 tsp mild chilli powder
16 Tesco Light Choices Cumberland Sausages (72 cals per sausage - 1152cals total)
1 kg potatoes chopped in small cubes (700cal)

Method:
1. Fry the onions, garlic purée and celery in a few squirts of oil.
2. Boil the carrots until tender
2. Put the potatoes on the boil
3. Add pepper, mushrooms, cooked carrots, and sweetcorn and fry.
4. Add the wine
5. Add the chopped tomatose, beans, tomato puree and stock.
6. Add all of the herbs and spices and simmer for 5 mins.
7. Mix 2 tsp of corn flour with some of the liquid from the casserole in a separate bowl, then add the corn flour mix to the casserole
8. Grill the sausages, then cut in strips then add them to the pot
9. Drain the potatoes and then add them to the casserole.

Source:
I wanted to make a sausage casserole, but also a sausage soup recipe. However, I thought I might as well just join the two together! So this is a merge of the following 2 recipes along with my own twist on it all: http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/food/284431/Quorn-sausage-casserole and http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/food/148875/Sausage-and-bean-soup