Jamie Oliver's 'game-changing' sausage and mash pie recipe that fans love

The personage chef, 46, has taken the classical British comfortableness crockery of bangers and mash and added a twist to it successful the signifier a pie, which has been called "game-changing"

Jamie Oliver has whipped up a "game-changing pie" that's cleanable for those chilly wintertime nights.

The top TV chef has taken the classical British comfortableness food, bangers and mash, and fixed it a steadfast twist by adding immoderate veggies. "Come on, what's not to love? Sausage and mash but not arsenic you cognize it," helium says successful his Youtube video, which has been a deed with his fans.

One instrumentality shared: "I made this for a 9yr aged and a fussy 6yr old," said one. I thought my 9yr aged would spell into a nutrient coma my 6yr aged ate astir 80 per cent adjacent though she doesn't bask mash.. the tasty condiment made it each delicious."

It's a dense meal, prefect for a English winter's day. "Another gushed: "Made this connected Wednesday. Omg my hubby and I scoffed the lot. Delicious Jamie...." And a 3rd added: "Absolutely wonderful. Reminds maine of the luncheon antagonistic astatine my aged English school. Nothing rather arsenic fantastic but the Cottage Pie and Shepard's Pie were wonderful. God bless."

To marque Jamie's sausage and mash pie, which volition provender a household of 4 "very generously", you volition need:

Ingredients

• 1.2 kg potatoes
• Six higher payment Cumberland oregon veggies sausages
• Olive oil
• Two ample leeks
• Two eating apples
• ½ a clump of thyme (10g)
• Four tablespoons plain flour
• 600ml semi-skimmed milk
• Three teaspoons of English mustard

Method

Start by heating the lipid connected a mean vigor successful a pan, past adhd the sausages and navigator until they're aureate each over. Next, flip successful the chopped pome chunks. Slice the leeks lengthwise - Jamie uses these due to the fact that his woman Jules isn't a instrumentality of onions - and chop them to astir the aforesaid size arsenic the apple.

Once the sausages are cooked, region them from the cookware and adhd the leeks on with a splash of h2o to halt the frying process. Season with a pinch of brackish and pepper, trim the vigor to mean and fto it navigator with the lid connected for astir 20 minutes.

For the mash, instrumentality your peeled, boiled and drained potatoes and mash them unneurotic with 2 tablespoons of flour and immoderate brackish and pepper. Divide the mash into 1 3rd (for the top) and 2 thirds (for the bottommost and sides).

Lightly lipid the sides of a tray and dispersed the larger information of mash crossed the bottommost and sides, conscionable similar you would with pastry. Once the leeks are truly tender, disturbance successful 3 teaspoons of English mustard - which won't beryllium spicy, but volition adhd a bold flavour - and 2 tablespoons of flour to thicken the sauce.

Sprinkle successful a small thyme disconnected the stalk and erstwhile the flour is afloat mixed in, determination successful astir 600 millilitres of milk. Next, reserve 1 sausage and portion the remainder into astir 1cm-thick pieces. Add these to the cookware and fto it simmer for astir 5 minutes.

For the topping, drawback immoderate greaseproof insubstantial and smear a spot of lipid connected it. Spread the remaining mash onto the insubstantial until it's astir a centimetre heavy and somewhat larger than your pastry dish.

Now, transportation your casserole premix into the crockery and spot the mash (on the greaseproof paper) connected top, peeling disconnected the insubstantial afterwards. Use a flour-dipped fork to seal the edges of the mash onto your pastry dish, keeping each those delicious flavours inside.

Trim immoderate excess mash from the edges with a knife, arsenic if you're moving with pastry. Slice the sausage you acceptable speech earlier and usage it to decorate the apical of your pie, embedding it into the apical furniture of mash. Bake the crockery successful the oven astatine 200C for 40 minutes.

Five minutes earlier it's done, sprinkle immoderate thyme connected apical for a crispy decorativeness that "looks the business". Serve with greens, peas, and mustard to taste.