Awarded with a CBE for his services to the catering industry, Brian Turner has received numerous accolades and other awards in his career, and is recognisable for his extensive television appearances and his take on Great British cuisine.
Method
Method for the sausages in red wine sauce
Pre-heat oven to 180°C/350°F.
Heat the dripping. Colour the sausages well all round and take
out.
Add the leek and onion to the pan ad colour. Add the tomatoes,
garlic, thyme and bay leaf, wine and stock.
Bring to the boil and add the sausages back in, place a lid on
and put in the oven for 30 minutes.
Remove from the oven and remove the sausages and keep arm,
remove the thyme and the bay leaf and reduce the sauce.
Blend and then pass the sauce, keep warm.
Heat a large sauté pan and add 25g of butter and oil and add
the mushrooms until lightly coloured, add the ham and colour too.
Remove from the pan and drain.
Heat a medium frying pan and add 25g butter and oil, once hot
add the bread cook until golden brown and add to the mushrooms and
ham.
Method for the Duchess potatoes
Pre-heat the oven to 220°C/450°F.
Pre-heat the grill to high.
Place the potatoes on a bed of salt and bake in the oven for an
hour.
Take out, cut in half and scoop out the potato.
Pass through a potato ricer into a clean bowl.
Beat in the egg yolks and apple puree.
Season with nutmeg, salt & pepper.
Pipe a border onto serving dish with a star tube
Put in the oven or under the grill to dry slightly
Beat egg with a little water, then brush over the potato
border
Colour quickly under grill.
To serve
Place three sausages in the middle of the plate pour the sauce
over the sausages and sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve with
Duchess potatoes around the edge of the plate.