Easiest Ever Sticky Sausage Tray Bake (2024)

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But there’s one never-fail option that you should definitely take – SAUSAGES. This all-in-one sausage tray bake is almost like a roast dinner without the faff.

Then there’s the sticky sauce that lifts the whole thing.

Sausage Tray Bake Ingredients Notes

• Onions – Red or white onions are fine
• Vegetables – I usually use leeks and baking potatoes, but feel free to add more
• Pork sausages – Use whichever sausages you like. The cooking times are for large, thick sausages. If you are using thinner chipolata-type sausages, they will take less time to cook, so roast your veggies for one hour (in total) but add your sausages during this time, according to pack instructions
• Olive oil – Regular, NOT extra virgin
• Flavouring – Dried thyme, salt and freshly ground black pepper
• Marmalade – The secret ingredient! Any kind. See notes below for more on this

How to make Sticky Sausage Tray Bake

1. Preheat the oven to 200C.
2. Put the vegetables and sausages onto a baking tray and toss together with oil, thyme and seasoning.
3. Bake for 45 minutes or until the sausages are starting to turn golden.
4. Flip the sausages over, spoon on the marmalade and cook for another 15 minutes.

Substitutions

• Sausages – If you prefer you could try chicken sausages if you don’t eat pork, or veggie sausages will be great too. Just check timings and adjust the instructions if you need to
• Vegetables – You can choose any equivalent of root veg, which always roasts the best. But always go for what you and your family enjoys the most, bearing in mind some ingredients may need less time in the oven

Leftovers

In the fridge These are great for leftovers as a lunch or dinner another day! You can keep this recipe in the fridge for up to 3 days. Reheat fully in the microwave or in the oven (covered with foil) before serving.

In the freezer This recipe doesn’t freeze particularly well as the ingredients might break apart when defrosting and reheating again. That said, you can freeze it, it just won’t be at its best.

Top tips

Marmalade!

This is the secret ingredient to getting that sticky, sweet sauce. But shhh… don’t tell the kids! They will love it to eat but, if I told them what it was? Probably not!

Any type of marmalade is fine to use. Even if you think you don’t like marmalade (I would never eat it on toast ordinarily), please give it a go in this. It’s just such an easy shortcut to heaps of taste.

Casserole mix

This is one of my favourite kitchen hacks. Sometimes supermarkets stock bags of pre-chopped vegetables (Aldi and Waitrose both do I know, but not all year sadly!)

If you can get hold of these, substitute the chopped vegetables in the recipe for 2 bags.The one I use includes potatoes. If yours doesn’t, you can also add these in separately.

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