5 Meals from 1 Pack of Sausages

How to Make 5 Unique Meals from a Regular Pack of Sausages

Recently, we set a challenge to start seeing how far we can make things stretch.

We’ve written 20 meal ideas for leftover sausages, 29 meal ideas for leftover roast chicken and 25 ideas for leftover ham.

To take it further, we got a pack of sausages and set about cooking a bunch of meals.

Note: we are a gluten and dairy-free home.

We had 9 Texan-flavoured sausages in a pack.

Looking through the fridge and pantry, we had a few leftover bits and pieces we wanted to use up as well, a limited amount of vegetables but enough for some ideas we had.

When the family looked at our food earlier that day, they thought we had nothing.

By the time we finished cooking, they were shocked at what we managed to pull together and how much we had for the next few days.

The 5 Meals We Made

We stuck to recipes we knew we enjoyed but they were all different to our normal versions because we did it based on what we had.

When looking at any recipe, remember, ingredients can be substituted.

The recipe doesn’t always need to be followed exactly, especially when it comes to mains.

Our 5 meals were: fried rice, a BBQ stir-fry, a frittata, pizza and goulash.

While cooking these, since we had everything heated up and on, we also roasted extra vegetables, cooked extra rice, roasted pumpkin seeds, and baked a banana cake with bananas from our freezer.

Other Ingredients/Basics in my Pantry

Rice, garlic, salt, pepper, oil, sweet potato, potato, tinned tomato, spices, stock and coconut milk are always in our pantry.

In the fridge, we had some cabbage, a handful of beans, a few carrots, a few florets of cauliflower, onions, a chunk of pumpkin and eggs.

When it comes to garlic, we prefer to crush our fresh. See below

Freshly Crushed Garlic

Using a mortar and pestle, we crush garlic with some oil, rock salt and peppercorns.

Doing it fresh this way adds a lot more flavour than premade options from the store.

At times, we add other herbs and spices or ginger and chilli, depending on the recipe we are making.

Crush the garlic to the consistency you prefer.

It doesn’t take long but will make a difference.

5 Recipes from 1 Pack of Sausages

These recipes are made with Texan BBQ sausages.

The flavour of your sausages will change the flavour and suitability of any recipe.

Basic sausages, garlic and herb, BBQ, Texan and similar flavours will work with any of these recipes.

Other flavours might need to be done with different spices and seasonings. E.g. Fried rice will go with any flavour but BBQ stir-fry really needs matching spices in the meat.

The stir-fry could be changed to honey and soy or other flavours to match whatever sausages you have though.

Goulash

This recipe is European-inspired, not American goulash.

It is not a true traditional version, as traditional goulash uses kransky but it was a hearty meal everyone enjoyed.

Try the Potato and Sausage Goulash Recipe.

Pizza

Any sausages can go on pizza with whatever toppings you prefer.

You can either make a pizza base yourself, use a storebought one, or use pizza base alternatives such as toast, toasted Turkish bread, garlic bread, crumpets, English muffins etc. Basically, any bread base can be a pizza base.

Try this basic pizza dough, which makes enough for 3 pizzas.