Sausage, Squash and Apple Traybake

Name: Sausage, Squash and Apple Traybake
Yield: Serves 2, generously, or 4 as a light meal with sides
Ingredients: 1–2 tbsp balsamic vinegar, or 2 tsp red wine vinegar, and 1 tsp honey; plenty of black pepper; 2 tsp dried mixed herbs, or dried thyme or sage; 1 large apple, any kind; 6–8 fat sausages; 1 small red or white onion; 1–2 tbsp cooking oil; 160 g frozen butternut squash chunks

Preparation info

Serves
2
, generously

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Food For Bad Days

By Jack Monroe

Published 2020

About

This is absolutely mindless comfort food; the squash and apple almost self-mash as the sausages and onion caramelize, creating a bounty of soft, sweet, sticky flavour. If you use frozen veg, the only prep needed is to chop up the apple, the rest is just bundled into a roasting tin and left to do its thing. For extra veg, add some torn kale, with the hard stalk removed, three minutes before serving. Frozen will work here too, but add it six minutes before the end to give it a chance to defro