cooking with frozen sausages in SC

vezb

Hi,

I'm planning on making a sausages casserole in my slow cooker, and toad in the hole in the oven.
I am usuing up the bits from my freezer so I was wanting to know if I'm using frozen sausages for these recipes,
Do I defrost them first or put them in from frozen???

Tia for your help

Verity

MrsE_2

If they are sausages you bought frozen, then you can usually cook from frozen.
If you bought fresh & froze yourself, then I would defrost.
Either way I would brown in a pan before I put them in the casserole.

vezb

Thanks, they were bought frozen so I'll brown them and bung them in.

Berni888

I made a sausage and lentil casserole with frozen sausages in my slow cooker, I didn't brown them first and there wasn't any difference. Although unless it's a tomato based casserole for appearance I'd brown them first.

footballmanagerwidow

Hope someone can help! I'm looking to do a sausage casserole tonight, usually I would use fresh sausages but i've only got frozen ones in at the mo...would it be ok to use these in my casserole? Usually I just brown them off and stick them in the oven with the rest of the stuff.

Thanks v much!

underlay_guru

No problem at all...they will cook by boiling in the casserole!

Caterina

Stick them in the stew frozen, as long as you cook the stew for long enough to cook them through they will be ok (just not browned on the surface). When they are soft enough fish them out and cut them in chunks (if you wish) and continue cooking until everything is done. HTH

footballmanagerwidow

sorry to sound dumb.....does that mean I don't brown them off then?

underlay_guru

No browning - they will be fully cooked but will not have any colour to them!

ellawood

I have used frozen sauages before and put them under a hot grill to brown and then put in a cassorole so you could brown them first

**purpleprincess**

I just put mine in frozen if that's what I've got and had no problems.