Sauté the onion and garlic

• Heat a little oil in a frying pan and sauté the chopped onion until softened.
• Add a heaping scoop of minced garlic and stir for a minute until fragrant.

Heat the sausage

• Add the pre-cooked sausage links to the pan and heat them through.
• Remove the sausage, chop it into pieces and set aside.

Add beans and season

• Drain and rinse the Great Northern beans, then add them to the pan with the water.
• Season with onion powder, garlic powder and cayenne, then stir and simmer.
• Taste and adjust the seasoning — no salt needed since the sausage and beans are already salty.

Plate and serve

• Return the chopped sausage to the beans and stir.
• Spoon the beans into bowls and top each with a fried dippy egg and a cooked hash brown patty.