Gordon Ramsay took on a traditional British dinner-time favourite and showed fans how he was able to dish up a plate of bangers and mash in just over 10 minutes. While the process might take a little longer for more novice chefs, Gordon promises his bangers and mash recipe is “quick and easy”.
In a video posted to his YouTube channel, the chef showed a step-by-step guide to his bangers and mash recipe.
One of the interesting things about Gordon’s mashed potato is that he chooses not to use butter, but uses olive oil instead to achieve a smooth texture. However, that does not mean butter is excluded from his recipe.
Gordon uses butter while making a caramelised onion sauce which will top the sausages and mash, along with cooking his sausages in butter to create an aromatic flavour infused with garlic and rosemary.
In order to make the recipe at top speed, the famous chef recommends cutting your potatoes into a “small dice”. He explained: “Small dice will cook literally in four or five minutes. Large dice will take seven or eight minutes. But don’t cut them too big.”
When cooking your potatoes, Gordon also advises ensuring the pan is not completely full. Instead, he suggests filling with just enough “nicely salted water” to cover your potatoes.
Another top tip is to ensure that, once you’ve drained your potatoes, you give them a shake in a colander before mashing them. “You will say why are you doing this? Because it is making them fluffy. That is really important,” said Gordon.
For his sausages, Gordon begins by cooking them in the pan, turning them to ensure they get a nice colour but ultimately allowing the “pan to do the work”. Once he has added in the butter, garlic and rosemary and coated the sausages, he moved them to the oven at 160C to allow them to cook for the rest of the time.
On his YouTube channel, Gordon was able to cook the recipe and plate it up in 10 minutes and 50 seconds. Of course, it’s worth noting he has a professional kitchen set up and was working against a stop-watch. Even if you don’t make the recipe in 10 minutes, this six-step process is still a fairly straightforward and speedy one.
How to make Gordon Ramsay’s bangers and mash in ’10 minutes’
This recipe is courtesy of GordonRamsay.com where you can find a selection of other recipes from the chef.
Ingredients
- Three Pork Sausage
- Three Peeled Potatoes, Chopped
- One Red Onion, Sliced
- Three Garlic Cloves
- One Bunch of Chives, Chopped
- Two Rosemary Sprigs
- One Teaspoon Sugar
- Four Tablespoons of Beef Stock (or other stock)
- Olive Oil
- Butter
- Two Teaspoons of Worcestershire Sauce
- Three Tablespoons of Balsamic Vinegar
- One Tablespoon of Grain Mustard
- Smoked Salt
Method
Step one: Preheat oven to 160 Degrees Celsius/325 Fahrenheit. Bring the pot to a boil with enough water to cover the potatoes.
Step two: Add potatoes to the pot once boiling and cook.
Step three: Heat the pan to medium-high heat, cover with olive oil and add sausage. Take a cocktail stick and poke the casing so it doesn’t burst. Smash the garlic and add to the pan. Then add rosemary sprigs. Brown the sausages in the pan then add four knobs of butter. Once the butter is melted, baste sausages. Add one more knob of butter and add to oven to cook.
Step four: Take another pan, turn to medium-high heat and add olive oil to cover the pan. Once warm, add onions. Once onions have cooked for about a minute, add sugar then season with salt. Then add four knobs of butter. After the butter melts, add balsamic (four tablespoons or enough to cover onions) as well as Worcestershire sauce. Reduce mixture. Once reduced add stock and bring to a boil and reduce mixture.
Step five: Once the potatoes are cooked, drain them and then add them to a pot over medium heat then mash. Taking the potatoes on and off the heat as you do. Once nicely mashed add a glug (two tablespoons) of olive oil to the mixture and mix in. Then lower the heat and add smoked salt, mustard and chives. Mix thoroughly and plate.
Step six: As the onion mixture is reduced, add one knob of butter and melt and mix. Place sausages on top of potatoes and add onion mixture.
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