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Budget bangers: 30 warming meals that start with a sausage

These versatile, flavour-packed superheroes love hanging out with pasta, rice, potatoes, buns or beans to create comforting meals that won’t empty your wallet.

30 recipes

Tomato, sausage and lentil soup with basil pistou

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Neil Perry’s farfalle with sausage, fennel and beans.
EASY

Farfalle with sausage, fennel and white beans

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Rice bowls with caramelised pork sausage.
EASY

Sticky pork sausage rice bowls

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Spanish winter stew with chickpeas, beans and sausages.

Karen Martini’s Spanish winter stew with chickpeas, beans and sausages

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Kale rolls with spicy merguez sausage and rice.

Kale rolls with spicy merguez sausage and rice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosheen Kaul
This easy pasta dish is freezer friendly and great for meal prepping.

Sausage rigatoni

  • Jasmin Weston
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Adam Liaw's taco and hot dog mash-up.
EASY

Taco dogs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry’s sautéed pork and beans.
EASY

Italian pork sausage and white beans one-pot

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Danielle Alvarez’s grilled sausages with chickpea mash and chimichurri.

Grilled sausages with chickpea mash and chimichurri

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
RecipeTin Eats’ sausage ragu.

RecipeTin Eats’ sausage ragu

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Chicken and sausage cassoulet. 

Chicken and sausage cassoulet

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
One-pan sausage and vegetables with gravy.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ sausage and vegie one-tray wonder (with hands-off gravy)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Sausage and rosemary stew.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s sausage and rosemary stew

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
One-tray wonder: Baked sweet potato and sausages.
EASY

Baked sweet potato and sausages with salsa verde and sour cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Mixed meatball spaghetti.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s mixed meatball spaghetti

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Orecchiette with pork and fennel sausage and broccolini. Pic credit: Vanessa Gordon
EASY

Orecchiette with pork and fennel sausage and broccolini

  • < 30 mins
  • Vanessa Gordon
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
If you are unable to source fontina cheese substitute with gruyère.
EASY

Sausage and fontina baked rigatoni

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Roman-style gnocchi with sausage ragu.

Potato gnocchi with sausage ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Many tortellini fillings would work in this rustic pasta bake.
EASY

Sausage, kale and tortellini pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Cheesy potato gem patatas bravas.
EASY

Chorizo and potato gem bravas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Jamie Oliver's five-ingredient sausage and apple bake.
EASY

Jamie Oliver’s five-ingredient sausage and apple bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jamie Oliver
Can’t decide between a sausage and a burger at a barbecue? Why not have both?
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ sausage burgers (and secret house special sauce)

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
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Creamy pasta with sausage.
EASY

Pasta alla Norcina (creamy pasta with sausage)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
RecipeTin Eats’ sausage hot pot.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ sausage hot pot

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Sticky braised pork sausages with herb pappardelle.
EASY

Sticky braised pork sausages with herb pappardelle

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
One-pan slurpy goodness.
EASY

One-pan slurpy creamy tomato ravioli with spicy sausage

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Scandi-style hotdogs with remoulade.
EASY

Danish hotdogs

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tip: Adding some of the potato and chorizo midway through the cooking time will ensure you have some crispy chunks on top.
EASY

Chorizo, roasted potato and tomato frittata with manchego

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink