Easy Sausage Tray Bake Recipe with Honey & Mustard

Name: Easy Sausage Tray Bake Recipe with Honey & Mustard
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 45 min
Ingredients: Low calorie cooking oil spray (Or olive oil); 10 Sausages (whichever type you like!); 2 cloves Garlic (minced); 2 Red onions (peeled & cut in to wedges); 1 Yellow bell pepper (deseeded & diced); 1 Green bell pepper (Or red - deseeded & diced); 2 large sweet potatoes (unpeeled & diced); 1/2 tbsp smoked paprika; 1 Lemon (juice only); 3 sprigs Thyme (or rosemary); Pinch Sea salt; Pinch Black pepper; 2 tbsp Wholegrain mustard; 2 tbsp Honey

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This sticky sausage tray bake recipe is such a simple delicious dinner, with LOTS of flavour, and ready for the whole family in 45 minutes. Just bake everything on a large baking sheet, bake and finish with a honey and mustard dressing.

Close up of sticky sausages baked with vegetables in a honey and mustard sauce in one baking dish

Is there honestly anything better than a whole meal that cooks all together in the same roasting dish?!

All you need to do is chop up some of your favourite vegetables. Then throw them in a pan with any type of sausages and bake in the oven with herbs and spices.

Now, my original recipe ended there. But these days, we've been taking it to the next level, and baking for a final 10-15 minutes with a honey and mustard drizzle for a delicious sticky sausage tray bake.

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✔️ Why you'll Love this Recipe
🛒 Ingredient Notes
📋 Instructions
👩‍🍳 Substitutions
⚖️ Variations
🔪 Equipment
❄️ Storage
💡Pro Tips
🍽️ Serving Suggestions
❓ FAQ
➕ More Tray Bake Recipes
🍽️Pairing
📖 Recipe
💬 Comments

✔️ Why you'll Love this Recipe

One pot wonder, so less washing up!
Very filling as it's packed with tasty vegetables
Easy comfort food for the weekend or midweek dinner
Needs little hands on prep time
Easily healthy with lean turkey sausages, etc or chicken breast

🛒 Ingredient Notes

Please see the printable recipe card with exact ingredient quantities and preparation instructions at the bottom of this post.

labelled ingredients for honey and mustard sausage tray bake

Cooking oil spray - for low calorie, or use olive oil if preferred

Pork sausages - we use reduced-fat sausages, but sometimes use Heck Spring Chicken sausages, chipolatas, vegetarian sausages.

Red onion - for sweetness, or use green onions, peeled & cut into wedges

Bell peppers - such as red, yellow or green for a Mediterranean taste or cherry tomatoes.

Sweet potatoes - or root veg such as carrots. Or try butternut squash. But for a less sweet sausage bake, you might prefer new potatoes.

Seasoning - sea salt and black pepper

Herbs & spices - smoked paprika, sprigs of thyme. or you could use rosemary, Italian seasoning, etc

Garlic clove - (minced) to add a more complex flavour, or leave the garlic skins on, then mash the baked flesh into the honey mustard sauce before drizzling

Lemon juice - drizzled over the ingredients before baking to enhance the flavours and add some acidity. Or hand squeeze lemon wedges if more accessible

Runny honey - or you could use agave, maple syrup, The Skinny Food Co zero calorie golden syrup, etc

Mustard sauce - we use wholegrain mustard for extra texture or dijon

📋 Instructions

First, preheat your oven to 200 c fan, 220 conventional, gas mark 7, 425F.

person spraying Fry Light low calorie cooking oil spray in a baking dish

Now spray your large baking dish with low calorie oil spray, or desired oil.

enamel baking dish full of pork chipolatas, bell peppers, sweet potatoes and red onions, covered with smoked paprika

Add all of the vegetables and spread them into a single layer.

Then add your sausages, smoked paprika and salt and pepper.

person drizzling lemon juice on raw sausages and vegetables

Squeeze over the lemon juice and sprinkle on the thyme leaves.

Give the pan a good shake and bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

person drizzling honey and mustard on top of a partially baked sausage tray bake before going back in the oven for 15 more minutes

In a small bowl, mix the honey and mustard together.

Once the cooking time is up, drizzle the dressing on top ad toss well.

Then bake again for 10-15 minutes until golden and sticky.

Tip: Alternatively, if you want a jus, you could add chicken stock instead of honey and mustard.

Close up of an easy Mediterranean sausage tray bake in an enamel pan

👩‍🍳 Substitutions

Depending on your dietary needs, here are a few simple swaps you can make:

Sausages - swap for other meats, such as meatballs, chicken thighs or even veggie sausages if preferred
Vegetables - if you're eating for health, try swapping potatoes and peppers for brussels sprouts and broccoli florets to increase your sulforaphane intake and reduce inflammation
Lemon juice - try apple cider vinegar, red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar
Honey - you could swap for red currant jelly or jam. But for an unofficial Slimming World sausage tray bake, try your favourite sugar free syrup or a pinch of sweetener

Sausage tray bake served in a black Denby Halo bowl with gold fork and fresh mint sat on a wooden kitchen worktop

⚖️ Variations

Here are a few ways you can customise this recipe with different ingredients!

Spicy - make a red chilli sauce to drizzle for extra heat
Sunday roast style - swap peppers for carrots, potatoes and stuffing balls. Then swap honey and mustard for beef stock and gravy granules and serve with Yorkshire puddings or toad in the holes
Deluxe - use the best quality sausages to your budget, or stir in some red wine with balsamic vinegar instead of beef stock
Cheesy sausage bake - instead of honey and mustard, spoon over this no-cook salsa and a sprinkle of cheese before its final bake
Kid friendly - if you have picky eaters, why not encourage them to eat their 5 a day by making a sausage and apple traybake recipe by adding apple slices instead of peppers?

See my Mediterranean chicken tray bake version of this recipe on my website!

🔪 Equipment

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❄️ Storage

Storing - we prefer eating a sausage tray bake fresh out of the oven, but it can be stored in an airtight container refrigerated for up to 3 days.

Freezing - cool to room temperature and again, store in a freezer-safe container for up to 3 months.

Reheating - If you want to eat it for lunch the next day, defrost in the fridge if required and reheat it in the oven for 15-20 minutes until piping hot. or simply microwave for a shortcut

💡Pro Tips

To give all of your ingredients a good coating, try adding all of the raw veg and sausages to a Ziploc bag and shake well - or a large bowl and stir well with a wooden spoon
For a super easy sausage traybake, line your baking tray with parchment paper so the pan is easier to clean
If baking with cooked leftover sausage, add them 20-25 minutes after the vegetables have been roasting
To save time, you could try a bag of pre-chopped casserole vegetables or diced vegetable soup mix

🍽️ Serving Suggestions

Pasta - stir together with some freshly cooked pasta, or have another one pan dish cooking with easy bacon and cheese pasta bake

Potatoes - if you've only added soft vegetables to your traybake, then a side of crushed potatoes, cheesy hasselback potatoes or a fruity potato salad makes it a delicious combo

Salad - this is my favourite way to eat it, served on a bed of baby spinach leaves with diced tomatoes and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil

Wine - if you're looking for a wine to pair with your sausage traybake, then we recommend a Burgundy Chardonnay, Pino Gris, or a Merlot

❓ FAQ

Is the film wrapped around sausages edible?

The skin (sausage casing) that holds the sausage meat together is usually edible when coming from the supermarket.

If you're concerned, a budget way you can make this recipe is to remove the skins and roll them into meatballs and dot them around the pan.