Sausage & Tomato Ragout
Right.
So tomatoes are starting to be good in these parts, nice and fresh local product ... Mmmmmmm
Seemed like a great time to try out a Jamie Oliver recipe for roasted sausage & tomato ragout :)
Ingredients:
- Smoked/Streaky Bacon - Enough to cover the bottom of the pan you are making the ragout in
- Sausages, 1 per portion/person (Muck about here and you can change the flavor/character of the ragout)
- Tomatoes, you want a nice variety here reds, yellows, as many heirloom types as you can find for a brilliant mix of colors. Basically you want to fill the tray with tomatoes.
- Herbs: Bay leaves, garlic, rosemary, oregano
You also want something to mop up all the incredible juice from the ragout, I used a fresh sour dough bread, but pasta or a rice type thing would work just as well.
What to do:
1) Heat up a tray in the oven till it's warm, toss a few glugs of olive oil into the pan, and cover the bottom of the pan with your bacon.
2) Toss the tray back into the oven until all the flavor is out of the bacon (read: cook all the fat out till it's slightly crispy ;-) )
3) Wash & core your tomatoes
4) Once the bacon is done, pull the tray out of the oven and add the herbage (A couple bay leaves, some oregano, toss in a whack of rosemary, the idea is to flavor the oil some more). Next place your tomatoes into the tray, top down. Toss in the oven for 5ish minutes to loosen the skin on the tomatoes.
5) Pull off as much of the skins as you can after 5-10 minutes, don't worry if you dun get it all, you can pull it off later
6) Toss up your sausages in some extra virgin olive oil
7) Place the sausages in and around the tomatoes
8) Place back into the oven for an hour "ish" at 180C, turn the sausages once or twice during the hour
After the hour, you should have a nice rich broth going in and around the tomatoes & sausages, Plate it up (including the broth) with your choice from above to mop up all that beautiful juice ;-)
Pictures to follow, Yes, I did take pictures, just need to post them up and link them ;-)
So tomatoes are starting to be good in these parts, nice and fresh local product ... Mmmmmmm
Seemed like a great time to try out a Jamie Oliver recipe for roasted sausage & tomato ragout :)
Ingredients:
- Smoked/Streaky Bacon - Enough to cover the bottom of the pan you are making the ragout in
- Sausages, 1 per portion/person (Muck about here and you can change the flavor/character of the ragout)
- Tomatoes, you want a nice variety here reds, yellows, as many heirloom types as you can find for a brilliant mix of colors. Basically you want to fill the tray with tomatoes.
- Herbs: Bay leaves, garlic, rosemary, oregano
You also want something to mop up all the incredible juice from the ragout, I used a fresh sour dough bread, but pasta or a rice type thing would work just as well.
What to do:
1) Heat up a tray in the oven till it's warm, toss a few glugs of olive oil into the pan, and cover the bottom of the pan with your bacon.
2) Toss the tray back into the oven until all the flavor is out of the bacon (read: cook all the fat out till it's slightly crispy ;-) )
3) Wash & core your tomatoes
4) Once the bacon is done, pull the tray out of the oven and add the herbage (A couple bay leaves, some oregano, toss in a whack of rosemary, the idea is to flavor the oil some more). Next place your tomatoes into the tray, top down. Toss in the oven for 5ish minutes to loosen the skin on the tomatoes.
5) Pull off as much of the skins as you can after 5-10 minutes, don't worry if you dun get it all, you can pull it off later
6) Toss up your sausages in some extra virgin olive oil
7) Place the sausages in and around the tomatoes
8) Place back into the oven for an hour "ish" at 180C, turn the sausages once or twice during the hour
After the hour, you should have a nice rich broth going in and around the tomatoes & sausages, Plate it up (including the broth) with your choice from above to mop up all that beautiful juice ;-)
Pictures to follow, Yes, I did take pictures, just need to post them up and link them ;-)