Saturday, 2 August 2025

Summer tray-bake time !

Summer vegetables and sausage tray-bake casserole
(use winter vegetables if you live in the southern hemisphere)



Why not give your tray-bake recipe a summer makeover with a light, seasonal mix of vegetables and juicy pork sausages*. So easy to make, the juices from the vegetables mix with the stock making a sweet sauce. Perfect for mopping up with a crusty bloomer, or a low carb bread.

Ingredients
Serves Four
8 pork sausages(*if preferred swap pork sausages for meat free variety)
2 peppers, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 red onion, cut into thin wedges
1½ tbsp olive oil
1 tsp dried oregano
2 garlic cloves, crushed
½ lemon, zested and juiced
2 courgettes (zucchini), halved lengthways, then sliced
250g salad tomatoes, cut into wedges
½ reduced-salt vegetable stock cube, made up to 150ml
100g baby spinach
¾ crusty bloomer, or low carb bread to serve

Method
1. Preheat the oven to gas 7, 220°C, fan 200°C. Put the sausages, peppers and onion in a large roasting tin, about 35 x 30cm. Whisk the oil, oregano, garlic and lemon zest in a small bowl, then pour over the sausages and veg. Toss to coat everything well; roast for 20 mins.
2. Stir in the courgette, tomatoes and stock and roast for a further 15-20 mins until the sausages are cooked through and the veg is tender.
3. Fold in the spinach and squeeze over the lemon juice, then mix for 30 secs for the spinach to gently wilt in the residual heat. Serve with bread of your choice.
From original recipe here


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All the best Jan

47 comments:

  1. Jan, I love sausages and vegetables, and the presentation in your photo is very colourful and appealing! I also love the illustration at the end of your post. Thank you so much for sharing.

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  2. Gracias por la receta. Te mando un beso.

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  3. I make something so similar to this! Mine doesn't have spinach in it - I'll have to try that!

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  4. This recipe looks super yummy. I think it's really cool you can swap out veggies for what's in season where you live.

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  5. I love this tray bake- Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com

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  6. What a beautiful, colourful dish.

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  7. That looks so inviting with all the colours.

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  8. Oh that looks so good! I have just bought some bangers from my pasty shop. I am going to make them with this recipe. Thank you Jan and all the best :)

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  9. A delicious and vibrant summer dish

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  10. Sounds a looks rather nice, Jan.

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  11. Light and tasty and a good way to increase vegetable uptake.

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  12. This looks delicious. I never think of serving sausage in a veggie tray bake. It's a good idea.

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  13. The meat free recipe sounds delicious, but I won't heat my oven in summer for any reason. This will make a great autumn dish.

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  14. So colourful and delicious looking. Tray bakes are wonderful in any season!

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  15. That's a great vegetables dish. Thanks for sharing. In summer I like meal like that.

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  16. enjoy your day as well!! i love the meal you have featured here, this is so good and can also be cooked on the bbq on a flat top!! beautiful images, my two favorites, butterflies and flowers...i bet you thought i was going to say food and butterflies!! i almost did!!

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  17. Jan, I'll cook it the same way, but without sausages. I'll serve it with grilled meat.

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  18. I think this will be delicious!

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  19. So colorful. I would like this.

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  20. That looks tasty. I'll swap the sausages and red onions. Red onions give me jip these days!!

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  21. That looks yummy. I love meals like this.

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  22. Fresh colors and lovely meals, thanks for sharing. Wish you a happy August.

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  23. hmmmm this looks so good. I will have to find a substitute for the sausage.

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  24. Oh wow! This looks totally scrumptious! With all our traveling and and then our son and family being here, I was not good with my diet. I NEED to be better. And this looks perfect!

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  25. I love recipes like this that can be endlessly adapted to whatever I have on hand/is available. Thanks for posting!

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  26. Dear Jan!
    A delicious dish. It looks very appetizing. I should make it because I love pork sausages.
    Have a nice week!

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  27. The tray bake looks delicious.
    Love the floral image, so pretty.
    Happy August, enjoy your day!

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  28. Such a simple yet delicious meal. I've made something like this with impossible sausages ( meat alternative)

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  29. Sounds delicious, Jan, and I love how colorful it is.
    Amalia
    xo

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  30. This looks like the perfect summer dish!!

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  31. I love that recipe.. Have a nice day day and week ahead.

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  32. This is delicious, great recipe!
    I wish you a lovely August too.
    hugs Elke

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  33. Another spectacular recipe that I can try, changing the sausages for chicken instead of pork. I'm sure it's very tasty.
    Happy August.
    Regards.

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  34. O wat lekker. Lijkt me een heerlijk combinatie. Rode uien gebruik ik vaak voor de maaltijd voor man en zonen. Bedankt!

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  35. GOOGLE TRANSLATE

    J.P. Alexander
    Gracias por la receta. Te mando un beso

    Thanks for the recipe. I send you a kiss.

    Aritha V.
    O wat lekker. Lijkt me een heerlijk combinatie. Rode uien gebruik ik vaak voor de maaltijd voor man en zonen. Bedankt!

    Oh, how delicious! That sounds like a wonderful combination. I often use red onions for my husband and sons' meals. Thanks!

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  36. this is one I think we would both enjoy :)

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  37. Sending heartfelt prayers and lots of love dear Jan🥰🙏

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  38. YUM!!! I will be making this. Thank you!

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  39. This looks delicious, and is a great idea! I saved the recipe, but will wait until cooler weather, before trying to make it. (I don't use the oven for baking during the Summer, because it is too hot where I am in the northeast US, and I don't have AC.)

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  40. That looks delicious and could try it with a different brand of veggie sausages every time

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  41. La receta me parece muy buena. Muchos besos.

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