toad in the garden
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Yield 4 servings
I stole this recipe from a magazine in Tesco who called it a lighter toad in the hole. Way to make it sound unattractive: that's like Diet Coke or Vanilla Sex. So I gave it a cute name - it's toad in the garden because of all the peppers and peas, see? Because they grow in the ground. Oh shut up.
If you're one of those classic mumpsimuses who can't move away from the idea of never spending syns on food, our recipes aren't for you. This uses syns and uses them well. If you want to save your syns so you can get your clapper wet over a sandwich bag full of off-brand biscuits and Muller-shites, so be it. Not for us, though.
Ingredients
- 100g of plain flour (18 syns)
- 2 eggs
- 150ml skimmed milk (1.5 syns)
- 1 tbsp of chopped sage
- 2 red onions, chopped into wedges
- 1 large red or yellow pepper
- 1 tbsp of olive oil (6 syns)
- 8 sausages of your choosing (choose low syn sausages, of course, because heaven forbid you'd enjoy some taste in your dinner) (though I'll caveat it by saying this: Slimming World sausages. I love Slimming World, but christ almighty you could break into a safe with one of those bad-boys. Don't do it)
- a handful of cherry tomatoes
- salt and pepper
- gravy - none of your blended mushy pea meconium gravy, either. The real stuff, or leave immediately
Instructions
- oven goes onto 200 degrees, if you've got a fan - bit hotter if you haven't
- pop the flour into a jug and slowly add the milk, eggs and sage until you've got a smooth batter - put to one side
- drizzle that oil into a decent sized oven dish and scatter the tomatoes, peas, peppers and onion all over - mix everything up, put in the oven for ten minutes to soften
- add the sausages and let them cook for another ten minutes
- add the batter and let everything puff up and get nice and golden for about forty minutes or so
- serve with gravy and whatever vegetables you're going to pretend to eat
Notes
- I'm synning this at 7 syns depending on how many syns are in your sausages - but it's worth it, a good stodge during the weekend
- we used the syn free sausages from our Muscle Food deal in this - you can use whichever sausages you like but remember to check the syns
- you don't need owt fancy to cook this in - a simple glass Pyrex dish will do - they're on permanent offer on Amazon
Courses dinner
Cuisine twochubbycubs
Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2018/10/22/toad-in-your-garden/