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Easy Dinner Recipe: Sausage & Rice Bake

Every Monday I get a sense of dread in my bones as I realise I need to plan the meals for the week. Again. Do these little people really need to be fed Every Single Day? Really?!!

I actually love cooking (and I love eating!) but finding food that my little people will gobble up happily, that is good for them, budget friendly, easy to make, freezer friendly, doesn’t bore me to tears and, oh yeah, is lactose free for my baby boy, well… that’s a tall order. Coming up with 5 – 7 of those meals every week? It’s a nightmare!

Well, guess what? This Sausage and Rice Bake is one meal that ticks ALL of those boxes. Full of veggies, super tasty, thrown together in no time and best of all, the kids LOVE it.

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The original recipe was passed on to me by my blogging buddy Kate, her kids love it too. Are you ready? Here’s my version.

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Sausage and Rice Bake Recipe – Easy Dinners Kids Will Eat!

Sausage & Rice Bake
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Ingredients

  • 6 - 8 sausages of your choice
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, diced
  • 1 red capsicum, diced
  • 1 small sweet potato, grated
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 1 zucchini, grated
  • 300g/one and a half cups Basmati rice
  • 1 litre chicken or vegetable stock
  • 2 x 425g cans of chopped tomatoes
  • fresh thyme
  • 1 cup grated cheese (we use lactose free)

Instructions

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F.
  2. Pop the sausages under the grill, turning every so often until brown and cooked through.
  3. While the snags are cooking, grab a flame proof casserole dish and fry off the capsicum, onion and garlic.
  4. Add the sweet potato, carrot and zucchini and cook for about ten minutes, or until tender.
  5. Add in the rice, stock, tomatoes and thyme and simmer until the stock is almost absorbed.
  6. Chop the cooked sausages into small pieces and throw into the dish along with the cheese. Stir through and then pop into the oven for approximately 25 minutes before serving.
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There you go, a one pot wonder that will keep the whole family fed and happy and it’s light on the budget too. For more family meal ideas check out these chicken kebabs or this easy ‘fried’ rice.

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Kylie Archer is a technology loving, junior primary school teacher, mother of two. She loves to play, craft and cook with her little girl, using as many geek-tech tools along the way as she can.

Read more of Kylie's adventures at http://octaviaandvicky.com.

Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Ingrid Morton says

    July 22, 2014 at 8:11 AM

    This sounds easy and delicious and perfect for filling up hollow legs! Could you please confirm the quantity of rice...not sure how much 300 grams of rice is. Cheers, Ingrid

  2. Jenny says

    July 23, 2014 at 5:43 AM

    This is excellent , can't remember who gave me the advice, but " chuck everything you can in , for kids meals get them used to Everything" Use proper food , just like this recipe, no sugar free this and lactose free that, gluten free the other And don't overclean in the kitchen, now I'm not saying don't clean up, but I'm sure all these adverts for bacteria blatting cleaners really aren't doing our kids immune systems any good at all. We've managed to raise four and not a sniffle between them no allergies and no fussy eaters. They have all done daft things like eating rice crispies out of the dog bowl and binging on sweeties spread out on the floor.... I'm the only one in the family who has hayfever and my mom was Always cleaning up...... take heed !

  4. nikki says

    July 24, 2014 at 8:51 PM

    Hi just wondering how you would freeze this meal. Whether you do it before or aftet baking. And also if I dint have a stove proof casserole dish could I make it all in a pan and then pour it into a dish to then put in the oven?

  7. Jennifer Fynn says

    March 8, 2017 at 7:14 PM

    Hi Kylie, I've sometimes found that rice cooked with canned tomatoes doesn't soften up and cook properly (maybe because of the acidity?). Does that magically not happen with this dish? Thanks for your help! Jennifer in The Netherlands

  8. Laura says

    March 8, 2018 at 4:56 PM

    Thank you so much for this recipe - I loved it and the kids came back for seconds! I have some intolerances so swapped out the garlic and onion for garlic oil and asafoetida powder. I also realised too late I didn’t have enough basmati, so used arborio instead. It all worked!

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