Sausage & Tomato Bake

What's better than chucking a load of ingredients in a pan, slamming the oven door shut and just letting the fresh ingredients work together to create something that is quite simply - don't mind me saying - DELICIOUS?

I have to admit this is an adaptation of a rather famous t.v. chef's recipe, but whose isn't right ;). 

So here goes...

(serves 4)

Ingredients:

• 12 DECENT sausages (preferably spicy Italian but they are quite hard to come by)
• All different shapes, colours and size of tomatoes (how many is up to you, but 3 packs of different tomatoes should be fine
• 1 pack of diced / sliced pancetta
• Chorizo sausage
• 1 courgette
• 2 peppers (1 red & 1 orange)
• 1 red onion
• 5 garlic cloves
• Herb de Provence
• Rosemary
• Dried chilli (or fresh – no biggy)
• Fresh basil
• 1 loaf of Ciabatta bread 

Process:

• Slice and dice all of the vegetables. Maintain a pretty decent size all round – don’t cut cherry tomatoes in half, just the large ones into quarters.
• When all vegetables diced, throw into large bowl with garlic cloves (halved), onion (diced into big chunks) and oil.
• Season the bowl with salt and pepper and give it a good toss around with olive oil.

• Place sausages in baking tray and chuck in a preheated oven (180⁰). DON’T PIERCE THE GODDAM SAUSAGES.
• Whilst sausages are in the oven, slice up the pancetta and chorizo and chuck in a SEPARATE baking tray. Put in oven and keep a keen eye on it.
• You will see that the pancetta and chorizo cook pretty quickly – about 5 mins.
• Once cooked take out of oven, shake about a bit and then throw in the big bowl of veg. Add the herb de Provence, chilli and rosemary and mix well. Put back in oven.
• Now you have a bit of time to breathe.
• When the sausages are nice and brown, take them out of the oven and place them all on some kitchen paper on a plate to cool.
• You will see that after about 20 mins of the veg mix being in the oven it starts to soften a bit. Take it out, give it another stir.
• When sausages are cool enough, chop into inch long chunks.
• When you are confident that all of the vegetables are cooked into a soft, bubbly, sloppy mess, put sausages in and stir into the veggie mix. Then throw in some chopped basil and give a good stir.

• Now grab the ciabatta, rub with water (don’t soak) and place in the oven. Cook for about 4-5 minutes.
• When ciabatta cooked, take out and slice.
• Get four bowls, take out the bake and serve...

DIP, SCOOP, LICK AND ENJOY!