Recipe: Perfect Italian sausage with pepper/onions

Italian sausage with pepper/onions. Delicious sausages made with premium ingredients. I think every Italian family makes this dish, with slight variations of course, within their own family traditions. While this is a fairly standard way of making sausage and peppers, my family uses olive oil rather than butter, uses little or no herbs (fresh basil is always nice here), red wine rather than white, and some crushed or diced canned tomatoes, or marinara sauce.

Sweet Italian sausage cooked with colorful bell peppers and onions with Marinara sauce is great with eggs, on sandwiches, or as is! No respectable Italian-American home would be without a version of sausage, peppers and onions. My mom cooked Italian sausage and peppers with sauce and served it on crusty Italian rolls for. You can have Italian sausage with pepper/onions using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian sausage with pepper/onions

1. You need packages of Sweet Italian sausge (5).
2. You need medium of medium onion.
3. It's medium of medium pepper (green or red).
4. You need 2 tbsp of butter.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of worcestershire sauce.

Add the Italian Sausage & peppers & onions to each hoagie and sprinkle with lots of Parmesan cheese. Serve with some of the tomato sauce on the side for dipping. My kiddos like their sausages cut up in bite size pieces before I put it on their hoagies, but that is optional. Flavorful chunks of Italian sausage are combined with diced tomatoes, garlic, oregano, basil, lots of red and green bell pepper and onion.

Italian sausage with pepper/onions step by step

1. Cut sausage into approximately 1 inch pieces. Caution..when doing this, be gentle and use a very sharp knife so you don't break the sausage casing..
2. Cut onion in half and then slice into thin strips..
3. Cut pepper into strips..
4. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a frying pan. Add all the ingredients and mix together. Again be gentle with the sausage. Cook until sausage is browned adding the Worcestershire sauce just before its done..

It's a comforting meal but light enough to be enjoyed on a warm summer day. For this Italian Sausage and Peppers recipe I used Johnsonville Natural Italian Sausage. Meet weeknight cooking at its best! Combining a few flavorful ingredients (Italian sausage, onions, garlic) with pantry staples (Muir Glen™ crushed tomatoes, Italian seasoning) and utilizing a simple cooking technique (grab that skillet), this recipe builds flavor with every step. Here's what we mean: Onions and peppers are sautéed in the drippings left behind from cooking the sausage.