Bangers and Mash with Stout Onion Gravy

Bangers and mash recipe with pan-fried bite-sized sausages smothered in stout and onion gravy on creamy garlic mashed potatoes. A classic comfort food recipe with bite-sized sausages which makes it easier to enjoy!

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Comfort foods are wonderful. Although it is summer and it's too warm out for comfort foods, I often ask - why limit cozy foods to winter? Tasty foods should be had all year round right?

Sausages can be unwieldy and usually need to be cut or bit off piece by piece - and then there's that fear of the initial bite where hot grease can potentially squirt out and burn your face so I decided to add another step to this classic bangers and mash recipe to make it easier to eat.

This bangers and mash recipe is made with bite-sized sausages instead! The best part is the roasted garlic mashed potato smothered in a beer and onion gravy!

What is Bangers and Mash?

Bangers and mash (sausage and mash), is a traditional dish from United Kingdom with roots to Ireland. It's made of sausages, mashed potatoes and smothered with gravy and it's absolutely delicious. It is the ultimate comfort food, and absolutely delicious.

Why You'll Love This Recipe

• Homemade Onion Gravy Recipe - This sausage and mash recipe is smothered in an easy and delicious onion gravy made with stout.
• Garlic Mashed Potatoes - To give the mashed potatoes even more flavor, I mash roasted garlics right into them.
• Bite Sized Sausages - To make it easier to eat, I cut the sausages into smaller pieces so every spoonful gets a bit of sausage and garlic mashed potatoes!

Bangers and Mash Ingredients

Garlic Mashed Potatoes Ingredients

• Potatoes - For this bangers and mash recipe, I like to use russet potatoes to make the fluffy mashed potatoes, but yellow potatoes also taste delicious as well. To make the best mashed potatoes, do not use red potatoes.
• Milk - To keep it on the lighter side, I use milk to make these garlic mashed potatoes creamy. That being said, you can also use cream as well. If you can also use chicken broth to make it even lighter and healthier as well.
• Garlic - To give these mashed potatoes even more flavor, I roast garlic cloves in the oven and mash it right into the mashed potatoes.
• Butter - Since I use milk, and it is lighter than cream, I use butter to make these potatoes creamy. I like to use salted butter in it for that extra flavor boost.
• Bay Leaves: For extra flavor, I use bay leaves when I boil my potatoes. If you don't have it, you can omit it.

Sausage and Onion Gravy Ingredients

• Sausage - For this bangers and mash recipe, any type of sausage will work. Usually, I like to keep it to simple pork sausage, like bratwurst but Italian sausages will work as well.
• Beer - For the stout gravy, we used a dark beer to give it a bit more flavor. (Stouts, Porters or any dark beer.) However, depending on how dark and strong the beer is, it may give the stout gravy a bit of a bitter kick. To reduce the bitter kick, we added ¼ to ½ teaspoon of maple syrup. Alternatively, if you want a less flavorful gravy, you can also use a light drinking beer like pilsners as well. Do not use IPAs (Indian Pale Ales) for this gravy, these are incredibly bitter beers.
• Beef Broth (or Beef Stock) - Any type of beef broth or stock will work for this onion gravy.
• Onions - This is a must in the onion gravy. Any type of onion will work for this onion gravy.
• Cornstarch - To thicken the stout gravy, I like to use a cornstarch slurry instead of a roux. It makes it silkier (less thick), and it has less of a flour flavor in the gravy.

How to Roast Garlic for the Mashed Potatoes

For recipes where I just need a few roasted garlic cloves, I will only roast the individual bulbs and yes oddly although people never mention it, it actually works! It uses the same method of oiling the garlic, but the main difference is you don't put it in for as long and you need to check on them more often to make sure they don't burn.

How To Easily Peel the Potatoes

Peeling potatoes is not fun, but there is an easy way to do it! The trick is to leave the skin on while you are boiling the potatoes. Once the potatoes have finished boiling, submerge them in cold water. While it is submerged, score around the skin and make a ring around the whole potato and put it back in the cold water and wait for about 5 minutes.

Once the potato starts to cool off a bit in the water the skin will peel back easily!

Mash the Garlic Butter Right into the Potatoes

Yup! It's much easier to do it this way. You may need to re-heat the potatoes if you like them piping hot with gravy - it tastes better piping hot anyways right? 🙂

Bite-Sized Sausages Make It Easier to Eat

Whenever I have this cozy comfort food, I usually don't like using a fork and knife to cut the sausage because I'm usually tucked into blankets or in front of a TV. My utensil of choice is a spoon for this dish, so I like to cut the sausage up into bite-sized pieces. You can cut the sausage into bite-sized pieces as-is, or you can peel off the skin - both work and taste good.

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