Italian

Sausage and Peppers

Name: Sausage and Peppers
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 8 Italian sausage links; 3 bell peppers; 1 onion; 3 garlic cloves; 15 oz crushed tomatoes; 2 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp dried oregano; 2 tbsp chopped basil; 1/2 tsp salt

Marco @marco_bologna

Sausage and Peppers is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Easy Diabetic friendly Low carb Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 Italian sausage links
3 bell peppers
1 onion
3 garlic cloves
15 oz crushed tomatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp dried oregano
2 tbsp chopped basil
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium and brown the sausages on all sides, about 8 minutes, then set aside.
Add the sliced peppers and onion to the pan and cook until softened and lightly charred, about 8 minutes.
Stir in the garlic and oregano and cook 1 minute.
Pour in the crushed tomatoes and season with salt.
Slice the sausages, return them to the pan, and simmer until cooked through and the sauce thickens, about 10 minutes.
Scatter with basil and serve.

Watch how to cook Sausage and Peppers

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

The Easiest Sausage and Peppers Recipe | Chef Jean-Pierre Play the video

Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sausage and Peppers, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sausage and Peppers carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Sausage and Peppers
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 560 kcal
Protein: 28 g
Carbs: 13 g
Fat: 44 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 7 g
Sodium: 780 mg
Saturated fat: 15 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Sausage and Peppers takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.