When the days are short and the air feels sharp, a hearty sausage dinner is one of the most comforting dishes you can have. Whether they're sizzling in a pan, baked in the oven, or slow-cooked in a rich stew, sausages are classic winter food - filling and versatile - making them a reliable choice when you want comfort without fuss.
Britain boasts no end of comforting dishes, but bangers and mash reigns supreme as a national favourite. Succulent sausages paired with velvety mashed potato and lashings of gravy create an unbeatable trio. Yet there's a simple trick to take your meal up a notch - a pre-oven treatment for your sausages that'll transform their flavour dramatically.
It involves a straightforward hot honey glaze requiring just two ingredients, which you brush onto your bangers before they hit the oven.
The delicious recipe was shared by foodie and fitness pro Lauren Nichole on TikTok in a video which has racked up more than 700,000 views.
Combined with onion gravy and silky mashed potato, this becomes the ultimate cold-weather comfort food. Viewers are singing its praises in the comments, with one declaring: "Now that is like the perfect autumn/winter meal."
Another gushed: "I'm going to need you to come right to my house and make this for me tonight because YUM."
Here's how to recreate this dish in your own kitchen.
Hot honey sausage and mash recipe
Ingredients
Method
Combine the honey and chilli flakes, then slather your sausages in this mixture before roasting them in the oven at 180 degrees for about half an hour.
Chop the potatoes into chunks and simmer them in salted water until they're perfectly tender, which should take around 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, thinly slice the onions and let them caramelise in a hot pan with a generous pinch of salt over a low flame, roughly for the same duration as the potatoes are boiling. Once done, pour your gravy into the pan with the onions and stir until everything is well mixed.
Drain the potatoes, add a knob of butter, a splash of milk and season with salt and pepper, then mash until you achieve a creamy consistency. Dish everything out, drizzle your gravy on top and tuck in.
