There is one unexpected ingredient you can add to your frying pan to make your sausages tastier. Sausages are cooked in many ways, with the frying pan perhaps being the most popular option for Brits. While they can be cooked in the oven or even in an air fryer, the frying pan is often the best way to cook them perfectly. There are many hacks you can use to improve your sausages at home, most of which are pretty easy.
One of them involves adding one unexpected thing to your frying pan to elevate the flavour. Most people just add some kind of fat to their frying pan when they cook sausages, whether it’s oil or butter. But there is one other thing you should consider adding to the flavour of sausages. It is a great option when you are making a Full English Breakfast or even a simple Bangers and Mash.
Nevada, who is the founder of North Wild Kitchen and an expert in Norwegian cooking, has shared her go-to sausage-cooking method, and it involves something you may well already have in your fridge: a can of beer.
Beer is known to go well with sausages, and we often have the two of them during a summer BBQ. However, you can actually incorporate beer when you are cooking the sausages. The method simply involves adding beer (as well as the optional onions) to the frying pan when you’re cooking your sausages.
This is known as braising the sausages. Not only does it infuse the sausages with that lovely beer flavour, but it also keeps them moist and juicy during the cooking process.
To start, Nevada heats oil in a pan and adds the sausages, searing them on all sides until they are completely browned. She then transfers them to a plate, adding onions to the pan and allowing them to saute for between five and seven minutes.
After that, it’s time to slowly pour in your beer of choice and bring it to a boil. Lower the heat and add the sausages back into the pan. Simmer for 15 minutes until the sausages are cooked through.
You can take it a step further and continue to cook the liquid after removing the sausages from the pan, letting it reduce into a sauce.
