Easy Italian Sausage, Peppers and Onions for a Crowd or a Few

Chef1MOM~Connie's Note:

When my children are home for the summer they always ask for grilled foods and Italian sausage subs are a great meal for dinners or lunch. Well making 6-8 is easy enough on the grill but then all the friends are here (LOVE THAT) so I need to make enough for 20-30. Came up with this easy way to do sausage and they do taste great.

• Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 25

• 5 lbs Italian sausage , ropes (skin on)
• 8 green peppers , sliced into strips
• 4 vidalia onions , quartered
• 1 cup water
• provolone cheese (optional) or mozzarella cheese (optional)

Directions:

1. put italian sausage ropes in roasting pan large enough to fit amount you are making.
2. quarter onions and put on top.
3. cut green peppers into strips and throw on top.
4. add water.
5. cover pan with heavy duty foil and bake for 2 hours at 300 degrees (time varies depending on amount of sausage).
6. once done, cut into roll length pieces.
7. ***OPTIONAL-at this point I have thrown on a hot grill to put grill marks and sear skins.
8. put on nice hoagie rolls, cover with peppers and onions
9. (optional)add provolone or mozzerella cheese get a good napkin and enjoy!
10. NOTES- easily reduces.
11. sausage freezes and reheats well.
12. onions and peppers are done fresh.

Reviews

[Crafty Lady 13]

I needed something to go with a polenta dish I was making and thought the sausage, peppers and onions would be the perfect complement to the polenta. I made this as directed, with the addition of tomato sauce. This went very well with the polenta base. Recipenapped for the February 2012 Aus/NZ Swap.

[lkkalj_9206409]

Excellent recipe. Thank you. I tweekes it a little by browning sausage in frypan with sliced garlic before baking in oven.

[Kim127]

Really easy to make! I halved the recipe and used 2 lbs of sweet Italian sausage links. This fit perfectly into a 9x9 pan. Baked for 2 hours. We made up our sandwiches with mozzarella cheese that I melted briefly under the broiler. With the leftovers, we grilled the sausage for the next set of sandwiches and both DH and I liked them better. Did I mention this was really easy to do? LOL Thanks!