When Sausage Met Potato: 5 Ways With Bangers And Mash
There's one dish I can't force myself to eat in hot weather, but the second it starts hammering giant wet snowflakes blown sideways by a "refreshingly" frigid damp wind, it's time to break out my variations on bangers and mash. I love our classic recipe with crispy pork sausages and caramelized onion gravy, but as can be expected, I get bored with it pretty quickly and move on. Here are a few ideas that really embody the spirit of "make extra for dinner, have the best lunch at the office."
South of America: grilled chorizo over potatoes mashed with Peruvian huancaina sauce
Fall Special: chicken apple sausage over mashed sweet potatoes with sage brown butter
Bangers and Mash With Vegetables That Aren't Mushy Peas: Italian broccoli rabe sausage over goat cheese and kale mashed potatoes
The Marrakesh Ex-Pat: charred merguez over spicy Egyptian potatoes with a little tzatziki sauce
What Hangover? breakfast sausage links over the easiest mashed potatoes ever topped with two poached eggs and, just for tradition's sake, tons of onion gravy. This is more of a weekend lunch, seeing as you might not even consider eating until 2 or so. Until then, here's our recipe for seltzer and guide to powering through.
Here's the only real trick I have to this dish: whatever sausage you decide to go with, buy it from a butcher and not from a package. But as far as potatoes from a box and gravy from a peel-off container? Go, have at it. It's not like I just linked to every single tool you might possibly need for pulling this dish off at home or anything.
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