Sausage and Bean Traybake is a delicious family dinner. Maybe the perfect midweek meal. It’s easy, cheap, tasty, and most importantly, a huge hit with the kids!
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I’m always on the lookout for easy meals that the kids love. Midweek dinners that you know they’ll always eat.
Sausages and Baked Beans are always a win, and traybakes are so easy.
I don’t know about you, but my kids love most sausage recipes and even more so baked bean recipes!
This Sausage and Baked Bean Traybake is fairly similar to my Sausage Hotpot Recipe.
Just cooked a little differently. The flavours are very similar.
What Kind of Tray Do You Need for a Sausage and Bean Traybake?
Most of my Traybake Dinners are dry.
This means that you can cook them in a pretty standard baking tray, with just low sides to keep everything contained.
This Sausage Tomato and Bean Traybake is juicy. Like my Chicken and Leek Traybake, it’s better in a deep tray or tin.
I typically cook traybakes like this in either a deep roasting tin or a deep glass container, like a Pyrex style dish.(affiliate link)
As long as it’s deep and big enough for your ingredients, and ovenproof it will work.
If you don’t have a deep roasting tin, you might be better browning the sausages first and making a recipe more like my sausage hotpot.
Ingredients for Sausage and Bean Traybake
My favourite thing about this Sausage and Baked Bean Bake is how easy it is. No fancy ingredients. In fact, you’ve probably already got most of them.
Veg for Sausage Traybake
When I make my Sausage and Bean Traybake Recipe I add peppers (literally whatever colour I’ve got in) and red onion, cut into thick chunks, then some frozen peas towards the end of the bake.
That’s it.
You could also add some carrots if you wanted to, but beans are super healthy, so it doesn’t need more veg.
Beans for Sausage Traybake
I love to put Baked Beans in Sausage Casserole. Bean and sausages are such a classic.
But the baked beans aren’t essential. I add butterbeans too, but you could skip the baked beans entirely and just make a Sausage and White Bean Traybake.
You might just need to increase the stock a little to compensate for the lack of sauce from the beans.
If you don’t have butter beans you can add pretty much any other tinned bean to your sausage traybake with white beans.
I prefer white beans like butter beans or cannellini beans, but even kidney beans or a tin of mixed beans would be great.
Sauce for Sausage Traybake
The sauce for my Sausage and Bean Bake is a super simple mix of the baked bean juice, chopped tomatoes and a little chicken stock. That’s it. Nothing fancy or time-consuming.
Another fantastic thing about this sausage traybake with beans is that it gets tons of flavour from the sausages and beans.
The onions add some more flavour, and it all comes together in quite a slow bake to create a gorgeous taste.
I just add some salt and pepper and no other seasoning.
How Long Should You Cook Sausage Bake?
I bake my sausage and bean traybake for about an hour.
I start by roasting the sausages, peppers, onions, and peppers for 20 minutes in a drizzle of oil and a pinch of salt and pepper.
This is just to brown the sausages a little and to soften the potatoes and veg.
Then, I add the beans, tomatoes and stock and return to the oven for another 30 minutes. The sauce thickens up a bit, the potatoes soften, the sausages cook and all of the flavours come together.
Finally, I mix through some frozen peas and return to the oven for a final 10 minutes.
An hour is a fairly long bake, but the good news is, there’s very little prep time! I’d still consider this a quick and easy family dinner recipe.
What to Serve with Sausage and Bean Bake
Recipes with Sausages and Baked Beans are ideal because they’ve got meat, veg and plenty of fibre. I add sliced new potatoes to my bake, which soften as it cooks and just served it straight out of the oven.
You could use some bread to mop up the sauce, but it certainly doesn’t need side dishes.
Sausage and Bean Traybake
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings 1x
Description
Sausage and Bean Traybake is a delicious family dinner. Maybe the perfect midweek meal. It’s easy, cheap, tasty, and most importantly, a huge hit with the kids!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Cooking Oil
- 12 Pork Sausages
- 2 Peppers (Deseeded and chopped into large chunks)
- 1 Red Onion (Peeled and Chopped into 8 thick chunks)
- 300g New Potatoes (Sliced into 3-4mm rounds)
- Pinch Salt and Pepper
- 400g Tin Butter Beans (Drained)
- 400g Tin Chopped Tomatoes
- 420g Tin Baked Beans
- 150ml Chicken Stock
- 150g Frozen Peas
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (Fan assisted).
- Place the sausages, peppers, onions and potatoes in a large, deep roasting tin or another ovenproof dish.
- Drizzle with the oil and sprinkle over salt and pepper, toss with a spatula to make sure the oil is well distributed.
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and stir.
- Pour in the baked beans, butter beans, chopped tomatoes and stock.
- Stir together well.
- Bake for a further 30 minutes, stirring halfway through.
- Remove from the oven, stir through the peas, and bake for a final 10 minutes.
Notes
If your onion chunks fall apart as you place them, don’t worry.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hours
- Category: Family Traybakes
- Cuisine: British
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories: 657kcal
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 1038mg
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 19g
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 77g
- Fiber: 17g
- Protein: 32g
- Cholesterol: 60mg
