If you’re looking for a quick, easy and healthy mid-week meal that doesn’t equate to tonnes of washing up then a one-tray meal may be the best option.
However, tray bakes can often be loaded with carbohydrates and saturated fats which isn’t always the best option if you’re trying to be healthy.
Ben Ebbrell, chef and co-founder of YouTube’s Sorted Food has shared a recipe for a sausage, puy lentil and leek traybake.
The recipe is “big on flavour” and can be cooked in just 20 minutes making it quick, easy and nutritious.
Sorted Food posted the recipe on Facebook last year, writing: “How good does this sausage, puy lentil and leek traybake look? If you love food that is big on flavour but low on washing up, these dishes are for you!”
The post received a comment from a Facebook user called James Rimmer who said the dish was “cracking”.
If you don’t have a pouch of cooked lentils to hand, cooks can use a drained tin of green lentils instead.
How to make a sausage and leek traybake
Ingredients:
- 2 large leek(s) (approx. 300g each)
- 1 granny smith apple(s)
- 250g microwave Puy lentils
- 0.5 chicken stock cube(s)
- 2 clove(s) garlic
- 6 pork sausage(s)
- 40g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp dijon mustard
Method:
1. First, preheat the oven to 200°C, fill a kettle with water and put it on to boil.
2. Next, cut two leeks in half lengthways and wash them under running water. Then, slice it at 1cm intervals crossways. Grate the apple onto the same board.
3. It’s time to assemble your traybake. Tip the lentils into a medium roasting tray, add the leeks and apple and crumble over half a stock cube before adding 100ml of water from the kettle.
4. Mix up the ingredients and grate over two peeled cloves of garlic, season with a pinch of salt and mix everything on the tray.
5. Add the sausages making sure to lay them on top of everything. Scatter over knobs of butter.
6. Bake the ingredients in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until the sausages are golden brown.
Dish the traybake up between two plates and finish with a generous dollop of mustard.
