Cheesy Polenta Sausage Bake

Recipe By:

Perfect Italiano

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Prep Time:

15 minutes

Cook Time:

40 minutes

Serves:

Experience pure dinner bliss with this Cheesy Sausage Polenta Bake! Creamy polenta, flavourful sausages, and gooey Perfect Italiano Perfect Bakes Cheese come together in this irresistible dish, served with a delicious crisp salad. It's the perfect cosy family dinner to make!

Ingredients

3 cups chicken stock
1 cup milk
250g instant polenta
250g Perfect Italiano Perfect Bakes Cheese
6 (500g) Italian flavoured pork sausages
350g jar stir through pasta sauce
2 (220g) red onions, cut into 2cm wedges
250g cherry tomatoes, halved
Cooking oil spray
Salad, to serve

Method

Preheat oven to 220°C/200°C fan-forced. Lightly grease a 2.5 litre (10 cup) roasting dish.
To make polenta, bring the stock and milk to the boil in a medium saucepan. Stir in polenta and cook, stirring, for 4 minutes or until soft and creamy. Stir through 1 cup of Perfect Bakes cheese. Season to taste. Spread in prepared dish.
Squeeze meat from sausage casings into small pieces and spread over polenta. Dollop sauce over. Sprinkle over onion and tomato. Spray with oil.
Bake for 25 minutes or until sausages and vegetables are beginning to brown. Sprinkle over remaining cheese. Bake for a further 10 minutes until melted.
Serve with salad.

Tips & Hints

This recipe can be made a day ahead up to baking stage and kept covered in fridge ready to go in the oven.
Instant polenta can be found in supermarkets and comes in two 250g bags within a 500g box.
Use any flavoured pork sausage you prefer.