How to prepare British favorite dish Bangers and Mash

 If you want to know what British dish you can try or which dish is favorite to a British, than you can try Bangers and Mash.
“Bangers and Mash” is the affectionate British slang for sausages and mashed potato, served with gravy. “Bangers” refers to the sausages – named as such because back then, sausages would burst open “with a bang!” when cooked unless you pricked with a fork.

Ingredients

1/2 tbsp oil
8 sausages of choice (Note 1)
1 large onion , halved and finely sliced (yellow, white or brown) (Note 2)
2 garlic cloves , minced
3 tbsp flour (plain)

    2 cups beef stock/broth (Note 3)

To Serve

Mashed potato
Peas

Instructions

    Heat oil in a large skillet / fry pan over medium high heat. Add sausages and cook, turning, until browned as much as possible all over and cooked through. Cook time will differ depending on sausage size - mine take around 8 minutes.
    Remove sausages onto a plate. Turn heat down to medium.
    You need around 2 tbsp oil left in the skillet. If you have much less, add a bit of butter or oil.
    Add onion and garlic, cook until golden brown - around 4 minutes.
    Add flour and mix through.
    Add about 3/4 cup of beef broth and mix into the onion so it becomes a sludge. Then add remaining beef broth and mix until combined.
    Simmer, stirring, until the gravy thickens but is slightly thinner than you want - it will thicken more as you serve it. Season with salt and pepper.
    Serve sausages with plenty of gravy, with mashed potato and peas on the side.

Recipe Notes:

1. Sausages - You can use any sausages you want, classic Bangers and Mash is made with thick pork sausages. I used beef in some of the photos and pork in the video.
If you use low fat sausages, they will not drop as much juice and fat when cooking so the gravy will not be as tasty.
2. Onion -  I like making onion gravy because it adds flavour, fills out the gravy and makes it so you can smother the sausages in gravy. But it is optional - you can skip it if you want.
3. Beef broth/liquid stock - I really like making my gravy with beef rather than chicken broth because it has a more intense flavour and it gives the gravy a nicer deep brown colour. But you can use chicken if you prefer - the gravy will be a lighter colour.
4. Nutrition per serving, assuming 4 servings. I use very juicy, fatty pork sausages which accounts for 593 calories of the total shown below, so if you use leaner sausages, the calories per serving will be less!