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Sausage, spinach and white bean casserole

Dive into this hearty slow-cooker sausage, spinach and white bean casserole recipe, packed full of vegetables for a healthy high-fibre dinner.

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 23 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 4.5
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 200g Freedom Farms pork and fennel sausage, cut in 2-3cm slices
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
  • ½ cup roughly chopped red onion
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • ¼ cup tomato paste
  • 1 ½ cups sliced carrots
  • 1 cup chopped celery stalks
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 teaspoons dried Italian herbs or Moroccan seasoning (see tip)
  • 1 ¼ cups dried white beans, rinsed
  • 2 large tomatoes, cored and roughly chopped
  • 6 cups water
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • black pepper, to taste
  • 3 cups finely chopped baby spinach or silver beet
  • _
  • To serve
  • 3 cups cooked couscous
  • ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley leaves (if using Italian herbs) or chopped fresh coriander (if using Moroccan seasoning)
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat slow cooker on high.

    2 Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add sausage and fennel seeds and cook, stirring frequently until lightly browned. Add onion, garlic, tomato paste, carrots, celery, bay leaves and herbs. Cook, stirring, for another 2-3 minutes.

    3 Place in slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients except spinach.

    4 Cover, reduce heat to low and cook for 6-8 hours.

    5 Just before serving, stir through spinach. Serve casserole garnished with parsley or coriander, on top of couscous.

    Variations

    Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free couscous and check tomato paste and seasoning are gluten free.

    HFG tip

    The flavour of this dish transforms depending on which seasoning and herbs you choose.

    2 comments on Sausage, spinach and white bean casserole

    1. Dianne Turnbull March 10, 2022 at 3:41 pm #

      As I havnt got a slow cooker How will I cook it I do have a big casserole dish?

      • Jen deMontalk April 19, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        If you cook the beans first (boil then simmer in water for around 30 minutes till soft), you should be able to cook this in a casserole dish in the oven for 1-3 hours at about 120C. Just keep an eye on it to avoid it drying out.

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