Italian OK

This is a fantastic dish that always takes my back to my mums home cooking.  We used to use homemade sausages with fennel seeds but good quality pork sausages can also be used.  This dish is a great party dish as it relies on the quality of the ingredients and requires little preparation, allowing you to enjoy the company and the wine.

Ingredients (for 4 people)

• 8 Pork Sausages
• 1kg potatoes
• 2 springs of rosmary
• fennel seeds
• 4 cloves of garlic
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Salt
• Pepper

Method

Peel and wash the potatoes, cut them into large chunks.  Boil some water in a pan and cook the chunks for around 3 minutes.  Drain the potatoes and place them in an oven dish, add a splash of olive oil, a little salt, pepper, the rosemary, fennel seeds and the whole cloves of garlic (pierced with a toothpick to allow you to remove them easily).  After mixing well add the sausages to the oven proof dish.  Cook at 200 degrees for around 20 minutes without moving the potatoes too much so to prevent them from breaking up.  Serve up this great peasant dish when all the ingredients have been browned and roasted beautifully.  This dish goes beautifully with a dish called “Panzanella” and I’ll post a recipe for that tomorrow.