Slimming World Spicy Sausage and Chorizo Casserole

I love sausages but have a preference to eating them grilled with perhaps a Dauphinoise or good old egg and chips.

I am not often tempted to casserole a sausage but when the thought of adding  them to smoked bacon and a spicy chorizo (which these days is a fridge staple), then slowly cooking in a rich paprika and beany tomato sauce, then my taste buds got interested.

Try not to be put off by the amount of beans, it really works well and I expect most pulses would be suitable.

If you have any veggies that need using up its an ideal meal to add them, peppers work really well.

I make a chicken dish with similar flavours and felt this spicy smoky flavour would work well. The smoky taste is really warming.

My slow cooker gets lots of use this weather and this proved to be a  simple dish to make, I expect it could be cooked in the oven too.

It is especially great for Slimming World members the chorizo is from Sainsbury's and is the mini cooking variety. Any good spicy sausage will work though. The syns for this are 4 Sainsbury’s Spicy mini cooking Chorizos 2 Syns each and Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself Extra Lean Pork Cumberland Sausages, 8 pack, 1/2 syn each each.

Ingredients

Frylight or oil.
4 Sainsbury’s “Be good to yourself” extra lean
Cumberland Sausage

4 Sainsbury’s mini mini Chorizo or 80g chorizo chopped

4 slices smoked bacon trimmed of any fat
1 large onion
3 cloves garlic
1 tin tomato puree

1 tin kidney beans 

1 tin baked beans

1 tin chick peas, rinse in hot water
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
250 ml Knorr Chicken Stock-Pot Stock
1-2 tsp paprika
1  green chilli, deseeded and chopped finely 

Worcester sauce to taste

Spray a frying pan with Fry Light and cook the sausages until light brown, add the chorizo, I burst at this stage to let some of the lovely spicy oil out which gives the sausages a lovely colour. 

Adding the bacon and green chilli and cook until golden.

While the meat is all coming together, add all the ingredients to the slower cooker, mix thoroughly

Next fry the onion in the red juices from the chorizo until slightly softened, then add to the slow cooker.

  Add the sausages and bacon mix and stir in gently to avoid breaking.

Cover and cook for 4-5 hours on high.
I serve with jacket potato or a spicy couscous.