Glazed Hasselback Sausages

Plain old Italian sausages get a makeover, glazed with a sweet and tangy sauce and baked in the oven! So easy! You can change up the mild sausages for hot and spicy, use a different jelly or mustard ... you can even use frozen sausages if you're in a hurry. Just up the cooking time a little.  

Ingredients:

4 mild Italian sausages

2 tbsps jelly (like apple, root beer, or even jalapeño)

2 tsps old fashioned grainy Dijon mustard

1 tsp ketchup

1 tbsp brown sugar

 

First heat the jelly, mustard, ketchup and brown sugar in a small saucepan until the sugar is melted then set aside to cool.

Lay the sausages side by side on a cutting board with chopsticks on either side, like you would do for cutting hasselback potatoes. Then make 1/2" slices almost all the way through, stopping at the chopsticks. Tip: semi-frozen sausages are easier to slice then completely defrosted.

Next, spoon some cooled sauce onto each sausage in a baking dish. Try to get some glaze in between the slices too. You can marinate them in the fridge for several hours if you have the time or go straight to the oven. 

Then spoon a little more sauce on the sausages (if they've been marinating) and bake in a 400°F oven for 25 minutes, basting every 10 minutes. Lastly, give them a little broil for 2-3 minutes and serve with your favourite rice.

Makes 2 servings

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