Sausage and Peppers

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🥘 Ingredients

  • Italian sausages
    4 large
  • bell peppers
    3 large
  • fresh herb
    oregano, thyme or basil would be good
  • hoagie rolls
    4
  • oil
  • onion
    1 large
  • pepper
  • polenta
  • salt
  • sugar
    1 spoonful
  • vinegar

🍳 Cookware

  • wide pan
  1. 1
    Heat a little oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
    oil
  2. 2
    Drop in Italian sausages .
    Italian sausages: 4 large
  3. 3
    Rotate them periodically and cook them until they're brown all over and feel mostly cooked through (i.e. only barely squishy in the middle when you poke them).
  4. 4
    If the fond on the bottom of the pan shows any signs of burning, turn the heat down.
  5. 5
    Seed and slice bell peppers into big pieces.
    bell peppers: 3 large
  6. 6
    Peel and slice onion into wide wedges.
    onion: 1 large
  7. 7
    When the sausages are almost cooked through, take the pan off the heat.
  8. 8
    Remove the sausages to a cutting board.
  9. 9
    Slice the sausages in half lengthwise or into thick rounds.
  10. 10
    Return the pan to the heat.
  11. 11
    Put all the sausage back in, cut-side down.
  12. 12
    Move the sausage around the pan to make sure each piece gets evenly browned on the cut side.
  13. 13
    When they're done, take them out to a plate.
  14. 14
    Put in the sliced bell peppers and onion wedges.
  15. 15
    Turn the heat up to medium-high.
  16. 16
    Cook the vegetables, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom of the pan to deglaze.
  17. 17
    When the vegetables are 2/3 as tender as you want, pour in vinegar to taste (I use about 1/4 cup, 60mL) and sugar .
    vinegar, sugar: 1 spoonful
  18. 18
    Stir everything up.
  19. 19
    Taste a pepper and add salt and pepper to taste, and maybe more vinegar and/or sugar.
    salt, pepper
  20. 20
    Return the sausage to the pan and toss to get everything coated and hot.
  21. 21
    Turn the heat off.
  22. 22
    Tear in some fresh herb and stir to combine.
    fresh herb: oregano, thyme or basil would be good
  23. 23
    Eat it just like that, or toast hoagie rolls (optional) under the broiler and have sandwiches, or coat each plate with polenta and serve the meat and vegetables on top.
    hoagie rolls: 4, polenta