The nice thing about cooking sausages in a frying pan or on a griddle is that you can put other ingredients in the pan with them and they’ll pick up lots of extra flavour from the sausages as they cook. Try mushrooms, tomatoes, or even bacon for the ultimate breakfast.

Ingredients

• • sausages

How to cook your sausages

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• Put your pan or griddle on a medium heat
• Cut the sausages between the links so they’re all separate
• Make sure you’re only cooking as many sausages as you have room for in the pan or griddle – they shouldn’t be touching each other – cook them in batches if necessary

How to cook your sausages

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• If using a frying pan, add a tiny drizzle of olive oil just to get things started
• Add the sausages to the pan or the griddle and cook, turning every minute or two, for about 12 minutes, or until nice and brown on all sides
• Before serving, check the sausages are piping hot all the way through and that no pink remains

You can also cook sausages on the barbecue

• Get the coals on the barbecue nice and hot, without too much flame and with plenty of glowing embers (for further advice see the Setting up a barbecue, Barbecue cooking guide and Barbecue safety guide fact sheets)
• Rake the coals into a big pile on one side and a smaller pile on the other – this is to make a hot side and a cool side of the barbecue
• Cut the sausages between the links so they’re all separate
• Put the sausages on the hot side, making sure they’re not touching each other, and cook for a few minutes, turning every minute or two, until light brown on all sides
• If any flames flair up, move the sausages out of the way
• When golden all over, use tongs to move the sausages to the cooler side of the barbecue so they can cook through without burning
• Before serving, check the sausages are piping hot all the way through and that no pink remains