This recipe is so easy. Buy links of Italian Sausage. Your preference. You like mild, but mild. You like spicy, but spicy. Typically our grocery store sells them in packages of five links. If I'm really craving this I'll cook two packages. For this recipe we'll just go with one.
I usually use a red bell pepper, a green bell pepper, and a white or yellow onion. My preferred brand of canned tomato sauce is Dei Fratelli. Don't ask me the finer points of it. Is it sweet? Is it not sweet? I couldn't tell you. To me, it just tastes better than other brands I've tried. Real inciteful, right? Sorry.
As for garlic. In our house my wife prefers to err on the side of more, not less. If I say to put in two cloves she'll put in four to five cloves. She's half Italian. That's the way we roll. Once, when our oldest daughter was a toddler, my wife found her sitting under the dining room table chewing on something. She reach in her mouth and pulled out a whole clove of raw garlic. What can I say?
I use a cast iron skillet for this. Actually, we use cast iron for just about everything. (Ahem, are you listening Lodge Cast Iron people?)
Italian Sausage with Peppers, Onions, and Tomato Sauce
5 links Italian Sausage
1 Red Bell Pepper sliced into Strips
1 Green Bell Pepper sliced into Strips
1 Med. White Onion thinly sliced
3 Cloves of Garlic, Minced
1 - 28oz Can Dei Fratelli Tomato Purée
2 T Italian Seasoning
Kosher Salt
Ground White Pepper
White Wine
Pre-heat cast iron skillet on high
Add olive oil
When pan is hot add Italian Sausage and reduce heat to medium
Turn sausage regularly to brown on all sides
While Sausage is browning slice peppers, onion, and garlic
Once sausage is browned and cooked 75% through remove from skillet
Add peppers and onions to skillet and sauté in the sausage fat
Season peppers and onion moderately with salt and ground white pepper
Add Italian Seasoning to skillet
Once peppers and onions are softened add sausage back to the skillet.
Add Garlic and sauté everything for 1-2 minutes. Don't burn the Garlic!
Add Can of Tomato Purée to skillet and stir thoroughly.
Add White Wine. Amount? You be the judge. But remember, it's for flavor. Not to get drunk. And not to enough to make the sauce too thin.
Turn heat to low and simmer 15 to 20 minutes. Stirring occasionally.
This is amazing served over Creamy Polenta. Hopefully you saw yesterday's recipe for the Polenta. If not, go back. 19/441
*About the wine. I always keep one of those small cardboard "bottles" of Pinot Grigio in our fridge. It's solely for cooking. We only drink red at our house. We aren't wine snobs. But we know enough to only drink red. LOL
Hope you enjoy this. Mangia! Mangia!
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