One Pot Smoky Vegan Sausage Casserole

This delicious smoky vegan sausage casserole comes together very quickly in one pan using everyday ingredients. This recipe is extremely filling and keeps you going until your next meal.

This recipe is a perfect warming, hearty recipe that satisfies your tastebuds, helps you lose weight, and fills you up so much that you’ll not be needing to snack. 

I make this recipe on rotation as it’s so easy, and tastes so good.

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• This recipe and all recipes on my website are suitable for the special diets, vegan, plant based, gluten free, dairy free, egg free, free from refined sugar, and vegetarian
• This recipe contains 433 calories per serving
• This recipe contains 26g protein per serving
• This recipe contains 232.8mg of Vitamin C per serving
• This recipe contains 13.7g of fiber per serving.
• This recipe is made from a combination of vegan protein, whole food sources of carbohydrates, vegetables, essential fats, and ingredients that make the dish extremely tasty.
• This recipe takes 5 minutes of active preparation time and 15 minutes of cooking time.  You can use the cooking time to get on with other things.
• This recipe is made extra tasty by the addition of my homemade vegetable stock powder, BBQ seasoning and Italian seasoning.
• I have simplified this recipe by limiting the number of ingredients and using everyday ingredients such as onions, garlic, peppers and tomatoes.

The Structure Of A Plant Based Plate

Each of the recipes I create fits into my Plant Plate System.  This system incorporates 5 food groups into every meal. 

The 5 food groups are 1) Plant Protein, 2), Leaves, Fruit, And Veg, 3) Aesthetic Additions, 4) Nutrient Packed Carbohydrates, and 5) Taste

This recipe is a complete meal because it contains all 5 components of my Plant Plate and contains around 400 calories per meal.

The diagram below helps you see the 5 different components of a Plant-Based Plate.

Click here to discover more about my Plant Plate System and some of the benefits of eating this way.

Plant Protein 

• Vegan sausages
• Butter beans or lima beans

Leaves, Fruit & Veg 

• Onion
• Red peppers
• Yellow peppers
• Chopped tomatoes

Aesthetic Additions

• Green/salad onion chopped

Nutrient Packed Carbohydrates

• Boiled potatoes OR cornbread

Taste 

• Olive oil
• Garlic
• Vegetable stock powder
• BBQ seasoning
• Italian seasoning
• Sea salt
• Tomato paste or tomato puree
• Liquid smoke (Optional)

Recommended Equipment

Here is the main kitchen equipment I have used to create this recipe.

How To Make This Recipe

• Cook the onions and garlic in a pan and then add the vegan sausages.
• Add the peppers, seasonings and the other ingredients and stir.
• Let simmer and serve the casserole with your chosen side dish.

Ingredient Substitutions

• Olive oil: Use any oil you choose.  Or omit the oil completely and just saute the vegetables in a little water.
• Onions: You can omit the onions or replace them with a vegetable of your choice.
• Peppers: You can omit the peppers or replace them with a vegetable of your choice.
• Garlic: You can omit the garlic or replace it with 1 teaspoon of garlic powder.
• Vegan sausages: If you’re on a gluten-free diet, make sure you buy gluten-free sausages.  You can make homemade vegan sausages for this recipe if you like, but you need to add them at the end so they stay intact. 
• Vegetable stock powder: You can replace it with a different stock powder or stock cube of your choice.
• Italian seasoning: You can replace it with any dried herbs of your choice.
• BBQ seasoning: You can replace it with paprika if you don’t want to make my seasoning blend
• Liquid Smoke: You can either omit the liquid smoke completely or replace it with 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika.
• Sea salt: You can replace it with any salt of your choice or 1 tablespoon of tamari.
• White Beans: Replace the white beans with any beans of your choice, chickpeas, or cooked lentils from a can.
• Chopped tomatoes: You can substitute chopped tomatoes with fresh tomatoes that you have blended, or passata.

Side Dishes

Serve this recipe with one serving of any of the following side dishes per person: 

• Mashed potatoes
• Cornbread
• Boiled baby potatoes in skins
• Boiled large white potatoes without skins
• White potato fries
• Sweet potato fries
• Baked white potato
• Baked sweet potato
• White rice

For more options, see all of my best vegan, gluten-free carbs side dishes.

How To Reduce The Calories

If you’d like to reduce the calories of this recipe even further, I suggest removing the white beans and/or the olive oil.  You can saute the vegetables in a little water instead of oil.

How To Increase The Calories

If you would like to increase the calories for anybody who is going to be eating a serving of this recipe, I suggest you serve them a bigger portion of a side dish and cook them an extra sausage.

Storage

Vegan sausage casserole keeps for up to 4 days in the fridge in an air-tight container. It also freezes well for up to 3 months.  Defrost it before using it. Reheat it by warming it up gently in a pan.

More Easy Vegan Dinner Recipes

If you’re looking for easy, no-fail vegan dinners, check out some of my other recipes:

• Quick Red Lentil Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese
• Creamy Vegan Red Lentil Dahl Recipe
• Easy No Cook Marinara Sauce For Pizza And Pasta

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