Christmassy pigs in blankets traybake

Ingredients

Serves 4

  • 4 rashers of streaky bacon
  • 8 Cumberland sausages
  • 1 large red onion, peeled and cut into wedges
  • 2 parsnips, washed and cut into batons
  • 1/2 butternut or other squash, cut into chunks
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • Fresh sage leaves
  • 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
  • 3 tbsp maple syrup or honey
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Step by step

  1. Preheat the oven to gas 6/200˚C/180˚C fan.
  2. For the pigs in blankets, lay the bacon on the chopping board and run the back of the knife down the length to stretch it out. Cut in half and wrap 1 piece around each of the sausages.
  3. Put the sausages in a roasting tin and nestle the vegetables around them.
  4. Drizzle with the oil and season with salt and black pepper, turning the sausages and veg carefully to coat.
  5. Cook for 30 mins, take out of the oven, turn the sausages and vegetables and scatter over the sage leaves.
  6. Mix the mustard and maple syrup/honey and drizzle evenly over the sausages and veg.
  7. Return to the oven and cook for 10-15 mins until well browned and sticky.