Delicious sausage baked rice for a lazy Saturday
I had a lazy (but totally enjoyable) Saturday and stayed at home to play Prince of Persia the whole day instead of going out or doing anything useful. Hence no time for fancy meals, but one still got to eat 
So I made a whole tray of baked rice where B and I had for both lunch and dinner. It was sooooo delicious that even though we had it for two meals straight, B and I still fought over the remaining portions, and towards the end, B scraped the tray even though there was nothing left. The recipe is actually based on my earlier chicken and mushroom baked rice (just swap the chicken and mushroom for sausages) which many readers had tried and left some really good feedback about the recipe. So I guess this recipe is really foolproof having been tried and tested by quite a few people ^_^ I’m going to make seafood baked rice next time. I tried a few other variations before and this sausage one is really good. Do buy nice sausages (those gourmet type that you pan fry for breakfast, they are usually refrigerated and go by weight – I bought cheese & pork sausages – NOT those frozen dark brown type that are used for bbq or canned ones).
Yummy sausage baked rice with lots of mushroom sauce and cheese
Ingredients
(Serves 4-6)- 1 1/2 cups uncooked rice
- Water to cook rice
- 5 garlic cloves
- 200g sausages, sliced (I use the gourmet type of sausages such as chicken cocktail)
- 15g butter (or use olive oil for healther version: reader suggestion)
- generous tablespoons mushroom soup (I use Campbell’s, straight from the can – no need to mix with water or cook)
- Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (about 150g)
- Shredded Cheddar Cheese (about 150g)
- Salt & Pepper
- Parsley (garnishing)Directions
1. Wash and rinse uncooked rice until water runs clear.
2. In a heated wok or saucepan, melt the butter. Add the washed rice, salt and black pepper to taste. Stir well.
3. Wait for the rice mixture to cool, then transfer to a rice cooker. Add the garlic cloves. Add water to cook rice (I use slightly more than 1 1/2 cups of water – adjust the water amount according to your cooker).
4. When the rice is cooked, stir in the cut sausages. Portion out the rice into oven-safe baking dishes (you can also use disposable aluminium tray) until about half the depth of the dish.
5. Smear some mushroom soup sauce on top of the rice, and topped with a layer of shredded mozzarella and cheddar cheese.
6. Baked in a pre-heated oven at 200C (392F) for about 20-25 minutes, or until all the cheese has melted and is very slightly browned. Garnish with parsley if desired.
Ultimate comfort food
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Looks great to me. Shall give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
Hope you like it. Do give me your feedback if you try it
we agree-great comfort food often comes from a one dish meal
now this is comfort food!
brilliant idea! i am sooo gonna copy copy this yaaa…
hehe let me know how it goes
Baked rice topped with cheese–sounds fantastic!
This is a great quick and easy meal! Looks delicious too!
This looks excellent!! Such delicious comfort food!
Looks good, love the mushrooms!
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Let me know your feedback about the recipes when you try them k? 
Looks amazing. I’ve never made bake rice before but now I think I have to. Heh.
There’s always a first time
nothing beats cheese baked rice! too bad my hubs doesnt like it =(
He don’t like cheese? We are mad about cheese here ;p
This recipe sounds quite easy to make. It’s good to find some easy, stress-free recipes, since I don’t have that much time to cook anymore that my holiday is over – I am sure I will try this sooner or later…
I make usually a similar dish and really is a perfect comfort food full of flavors
It looks impressive!
Cheers!
Gera
No wonder you both fought over the dish
Easy to see why!
When can we have this again?
What a yummy and easy dish! I have some Rice A Roni in the pantry that I think might work too. I can’t wait to see your seafood version!
I’ve never heard of this rice but it sounds like an interesting rice to use for baking
WOW! This looks amazing! I’ve been baking more and more with cheese and trying out different cheese breads. Often, I don’t know what to do with the leftover cheese, and this seems like a yummy solutions!
Nice site you have! Yea u can toss your leftover cheese for the topping and experiment with different types of cheese
This is such a great one pot meal.
Can I skip the 2nd step of frying the rice and just cook it in the rice cooker?
hi juhuacha, there is more aroma if you fry the rice with butter, but yes you can use readily cooked rice if you’re pressed for time.
But for the other baked rice recipe I linked, it’d be better to fry the rice with the chicken and mushrooms or they may not cook well in the oven
i just made this for dinner and it yummy… hubby and 2 girls wiped out everything within record time. alll i heard was ” superb mummy”, “so good, finger lickin good”, “spot on, dear!”, etc, etc. other than increasing the rice to 2 cups, and sausages to 250g, i followed your recipe even the cooking time. just prefect, as always. thanks ALOT for sharing.
It makes me happy to hear that your family liked the recipe. It’s my family favorite too. Thanks for your kind words
OMG! I did it…I made this dish single-handedly (helper was off) and ENJOYED doing it! And my hubby and sons loved it!!!
Now decideding what to tackle next.
Thanks, Wiffy!
I’m glad to hear you like it! This is an easy dish with good taste, that’s why I like to bake it too. Thanks for your feedback
Look at the melted cheese…it looks so scrumptious.
I’m officially addicted to your baked rice recipes! I think I’ve tried all your recipes & made some more that have been modified. Cheese & rice is the best combination
ps: try soft cheese (like Laughing Cow’s cheese bites) with kimchi fried rice, the cheese makes the spicy kimchi more bearable for me.
wah so happy and flattered to hear that you tried all the baked rice recipes!
I like the unusual combi of cheese and kimchi! Hmm … do you make the fried rice, sprinkle cheese on top …. and bake it? If not, teach me how you do it, hehe
i have this in the oven right now sans sausage… it’s smelling soooo good :O) thank you!
glad to hear that you like it!
If you have soft spreadable cheese, you can just spread the cheese on top of the Kimchi fried rice when the rice is still hot.
If your cheese is hard, just sprinkle them on top of the rice & microwave it so the cheese melts.
I recommend mild-tasting cheese like mozzarella & not something strong like cheddar.
I made your Cod with creamy mushroom sauce last week it was delicious! I like your blog better than any TV people, the food is soooo tasty! This week I was looking for an option that used stuff I already had, this recipe looked amazing and easy but I didn’t have everything so I made some adjustments and would like to share it becasue the recipe is so flexible.
I used:
risotto rice (no rice cooker so I just coked it in the pan)
hot Italian sausages rather than gourmet
Sharp cheddar grated cheese
and I added french friend onions to the top along with the cream of mushroom soup.
Thank you for suck yummy affordable ideas!