Sausage and Puy Lentil Onepot

Cheap, sustaining, healthy and tasty. This is proper family food which everybody will enjoy. Serve it with plenty of green vegetables and perhaps some buttery, crusty bread to mop up the juices.

Sausage and Puy Lentil Onepot

Feeds 4

1 tbsp olive oil

A dozen good quality sausages (I used Gordon's of East Boldon gluten free chilli sausages, amazing)

1 onion, chopped

2 carrots, peeled and diced

2 small or 1 large sweet potato, cubed

A handful of mushrooms, roughly chopped

2 cloves garlic

A tbsp of fresh of dried thyme leaves, rosemary works too

200g puy lentils

1 tbsp Dijon or Wholegrain mustard

1 litre beef stock

400g chopped tomatoes

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

A handful of sun dried tomatoes, chopped

Salt and pepper

1 - In a large non-stick deep pan, heat up the oil and add the sausages. Cook for 5 minutes, browning all over, then remove with a slotted spoon or tongs.

2 - Add the onion, carrot, sweet potato and mushrooms. Cook for 5 minutes until soft. Add the garlic and cook for a further 2-3 minutes.

3 - Add the sausages, thyme or rosemary, lentils, mustard, stock, chopped and sun dried tomatoes and vinegar. Bring to the boil then reduce to a simmer. Cook on the hob for 30-40 minutes or until the lentils are just cooked and the liquid reduced.

4 - Taste for seasoning and scatter with torn fresh basil or parsley.