You can oven bake sausages, an easy hands-free way of cooking. This is a simple way to cook sausages and onions, without having to stand over them watching a frying pan spit! Once cooked they can be eaten straight away, or cooled and stored in the fridge to be microwaved hot later if you wish, or used, cold, as a sausage sandwich filling.

• 1 pack of sausages, any brand, any pack size, just your favourites
• 1-2 onions, peeled and sliced
• A little oil, just to prevent the onions from sticking

Oven Baked Sausages Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C, 170°C fan. No need to pre-heat if you’re using an air fryer.
2. I like to line the cooking dish with cooking foil, to reduce washing up effort, it’s optional.
3. Spray the bottom of the dish with a little oil, so the onions don’t stick before the juices from the sausages have had chance to seep out.
4. Place a layer of chopped/sliced onions on the bottom of the dish.
5. Separate the sausage links and place the raw sausages on top of the onion layer.

6. Place the dish in the oven. After 30 minutes turn the sausages over, return the dish to the oven.
7. Bake the sausages for a further 30 minutes, you’ll probably be tempted to check/turn them again if you’re like me.
8. When the sausages look the colour you like them to be, remove from the oven!

How Long Can You Keep Oven Baked Sausages Before You Eat Them?

Once cooked, if you cool the sausages and put them into a covered container/takeaway box and put them in the fridge, they don’t need to be eaten for 2-3 days.

Can You Freeze Oven Baked Sausages?

Yes. Once cooked and cooled, you can put them in the fridge or the freezer. They can go straight into the freezer, or, if you’ve had them in the fridge 1-2 days already, they can still be transferred to the freezer.

How Do You Reheat Oven Baked Sausages?

From chilled, you can microwave them hot again in 2-3 minutes on high, or fry them on a medium/hot heat for 5-10 minutes, or add them to a slow cooker recipe.

If you have frozen them, you will need to either defrost the sausages in the fridge first (or defrost in the microwave), then reheat them by one of the above methods.

Hot Sausage & Onion Baguette

Today I oven baked these sausages, then placed some part-baked baguettes in the oven 10 minutes before the sausages were ready to be served. I had a hot sausage and onion baguette.

I sliced the sausages in half and added a squirt of Heinz Japaneo Pepper Ketchup, which is a great tasting hot ketchup I often use in slow cooker chilli recipes too.