Absolute bangers! 10 brilliant sausage recipes – from risotto to perfect pizza

Sausages are a fabulous ingredient in their own right, and should never just be served up with a pile of veg. Here's how to use them with panache

It is easy to be lazy with a sausage. They are already seasoned, so all you have to do is cook them, put them on a plate next to some other stuff and eat them. But to simply plonk a banger next to a pile of veg is to do it a grave disservice - far better to use the sausage as an ingredient in its own right. Here are 10 recipes that do exactly that.