Easy Italian Sausage and Peppers

Little Bee's Note:

My Mom made these often when I was growing up and I have always loved them! I think this is the most authentic and traditional way to make these.Traditional Sausage and Peppers do NOT have tomato sauce! We always ate them on Italian sub rolls with mustard but you could eat these alone with good crusty bread on the side. This serves 8 and can easily be scaled down or increased depending on how many you want to feed.

• Total Time: 32 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 22 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 8 hot Italian sausages (if you prefer) or 8 italian sweet sausage (if you prefer)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 large onion , halved and sliced
• 2 large red peppers , seeded and sliced
• 1 green pepper , seeded and sliced
• 2 garlic cloves , minced
• salt and pepper , to taste
• 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 8 Italian rolls
• mustard (optional)

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a large pan, over medium heat.
2. Add the sausages and cook, turning frequently.
3. You want them browned all over and this takes about 10 minutes.
4. Add the onions and stir up the browned bits on the bottom of the pan.
5. Then after another 2 minutes, add the peppers, garlic, salt, pepper, and dried oregano.
6. After lowering the heat cook for another 5-10 minutes until the vegetables are tender and the sausages are cooked through.

Reviews

[905569]

This was great!! Boyfriend liked especially. I served it w/ some pesto angel hair and buttered italian bread. Also used lean pork sausage and added a bit of chicken broth as suggested below. Will make again!

[Laura G.]

I made a smaller recipe of this for just myself one night. I usually doesn't "change" recipes but did just a little to keep it WW friendly. I used spicy chicken sausage and as another person suggested used just a bit of chicken broth to make sure all of the wonderful flavors coated everything. It was fantastic. I served it over healthier pasta and when my Husband tasted it, he requested it for dinner! Making it again tonight but a double recipe! Thanks for a wonderful recipe and forgive my "tweaking" it, it didn't NEED it :)

[Nikoma]

Made this using vegan sausages and quadrupled the recipe for my wedding. Went over very well!