Spanish Comfort Food (egg & Sausage Casserole)

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 3/4 cup onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup mixed sweet red and green pepper, chopped
• 1 celery rib, chopped
• 2 teaspoons fresh basil or 3/4 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 (7 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 3/4 cup canned peas and carrots, drained (14 oz can will give you left overs to use in something else or fresh peas and carrots, cooked)
• 4 -6 red potatoes, cooked,left whole if small or quartered if larger
• 10 ounces smoked sausage, cut in 3/4 " pieces (portuguese linguica, spanish chorizo or sausage of your choice)
• 2 teaspoons hot paprika
• 1/4 cup wine
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 -4 eggs (at least one egg per person)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f
• 2 saute the onion & garlic in the vegetable oil until the onion is translucent and the garlic is aromatic apprx 5 minutes
• 3 add peppers & celery, cook a further 2 minutes
• 4 add tomato sauce, sausage, potatoes & lemon juice
• 5 sprinkle in the paprika
• 6 add drained peas & carrots & wine
• 7 bring to a simmer
• 8 transfer to a casserole dish with a lid
• 9 you may now continue to finish the dish or refrigerate it until 1 hour before serving bringing it to room temperature before placing it in the oven, if you have made this as a "do-ahead" allow 30 minutes at 375f to heat it to simmering
• 10 if you are continuing with the recipe without "doing ahead" place the casserole in the 375f oven and bring the contents to a bubbling simmer 5-10 minutes
• 11 make a depression for each egg, crack in the eggs, cover and place back in the oven
• 12 cook for apprx 10-15 minutes or until the eggs are done to your liking
• 13 have one or two eggs on top of the sausage/vegetable mixture on each plate or bring the whole caaserole to the table