Am's Spicy Sausage, Onion & Pepper Ragu

Submitted by anonymous

"Yum, Yum! A tomato base spicy dish, serve over rice or noodles. I love spicy and I created this dish, instead of the hum drum sausage & peppers. Very tasty! I like it over rice, my husband prefers it over pasta, almost like a pasta sauce. Adjust the red pepper flakes and banana peppers to taste."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 - 2 lbs hot Italian sausage (some butcher counters have the best!)
• 1 red pepper (cleaned & sliced- 1/4-inch slices long)
• 3 onions, sliced
• 4 -6 yellow banana peppers (sliced long)
• 1 -2 teaspoon garlic, chopped
• 1 tablespoon italian seasoning
• red pepper flakes (dash as spicy as you like!)
• 1 tomatoes (sliced thin)
• extra virgin olive oil
• sugar (dash or two)
• salt or pepper
• 29 ounces whole canned tomatoes (use about 3/4 of can-crush with fork-or use whole can for more sauce)
• 1⁄2 - 1 cup parmesan cheese (can use more to thicken)
• 1⁄4 cup wine (pino grigio or white wine)

directions

1. Boil italian sausage in seperate pot with about an inch of water and cover.
2. In 2nd pot, add oil, onions and garlic and cook til onions start to be tender (about 5 mins).
3. Add all peppers and sliced tomato to 2nd pot.
4. When peppers are close to done (tender), add crushed tomatoes, italian seasoning, salt/pepper, sugar, red pepper flakes and parmesean to 2nd pot and heat (add more parmesean to thicken a bit if needed).
5. Check sausage to see if water is reduced and start to fry sausage.
6. Add wine to sausage pan (deglaze) and scrape up bits with spatula, heat a bit. (Sausage can be cut too preference).
7. Add 2nd pot to sausage, heat and mix.
8. Put all ingredients in casserole dish and keep warm until ready to serve.
9. Serve over rice or pasta.
10. **Variation: Add mushrooms or green peppers**.