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Italian Sausage and Peppers

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Italian Sausage and Peppers

 

This simple and delicious Italian Sausage and Peppers recipe is a breeze to whip up for a family meal. It’s a classic meal that never gets old. Serve it over rice or pasta or stuff it into hoagie rolls for a filling dinner the whole family will enjoy.

Flavorful chunks of Italian sausage are combined with diced tomatoes, garlic, oregano, basil, lots of red and green bell pepper and onion. It’s a comforting meal but light enough to be enjoyed on a warm summer day.

Italian Sausage and Peppers

 

For this Italian Sausage and Peppers recipe I used Johnsonville Natural Italian Sausage. Johnsonville Naturals is a new product line that not only includes Italian Sausage, but 3 flavors of bratwurst too: White Cheddar, Jalapeno Cheddar, and Andouille.

Johnsonville Natural Sausage

 

They are perfect for lightening up your summer meals.

Italian Sausage and Peppers

 

Johnsonville Naturals have the great taste you know and love Johnsonville Sausage for, but with a short ingredient list. They have no MSG added, zero grams trans fat, no fillers, and are gluten free.

Italian Sausage and Peppers

 

Not only is this a meal you can feel good about serving your family, but it can be made start to finish in under 30 minutes, making it great for those busy summer days when you glance at the clock and realize it is 5 pm and you haven’t even thought about dinner yet.

Italian Sausage and Peppers

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Italian Sausage and Peppers

Italian Sausage and Peppers

Flavorful chunks of Italian sausage are combined with diced tomatoes, garlic, oregano, basil, lots of red and green bell pepper and onion for an easy weeknight meal. 
PREP: 5 minutes
COOK: 28 minutes
TOTAL: 33 minutes
SERVINGS: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
  • 1 package Johnsonville Naturals Mild Italian Sausage
  • 1 green pepper, thinly sliced
  • 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
  • 2 sweet onions, thinly sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes

Instructions

  • Add vegetable oil to a large pan and heat over medium-high heat. Add sausages and cook until browned on all sides. Remove sausage from pan and set aside (Note: You do not need to cook it through at this point.)
  • Add onion and peppers to grease left in pan and cook over medium heat until softened. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
  • Slice sausage into 1 to 1 1/2-inch pieces.
  • Return sausage to pan along with all other ingredients.
  • Cook for 5 to 10 minutes, until sausage is cooked through and sauce is thickened.
  • Serve on hoagie rolls if desired.

Nutrition

Calories: 359kcal
Author: Christin Mahrlig
Course: Main Course

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212 thoughts on “Italian Sausage and Peppers”

  1. Grew up eating Italian Sausage Sandwiches in very Italian communities in PA. So good! This was very close to those memories ! Love. Had this in a baguette. perfect!

  2. Made this tonight for my husband and myself, delicious! Great flavor! I used spicy Italian sausage and it was just the right kick. This was pretty simple to fix. We had it on hoagie rolls. Next time I may top with little mozzarella!

  3. I’ve made this a few times and always follow the recipe exactly, except I use Johnsonville sweet Italian sausage. It is amazing!!! I serve it on fresh hoagie rolls from our local bakery. Delicious!

  4. Had some leftover sweet and hot italian sausages in the freezer. Googled recipes using italian sausage and your recipe came up. It’s delicious and definitely a keeper! Thanks for the idea and for sharing the recipe!

  5. Made this recipe tonight. It was absolutely delicious! I followed the directions exactly & I wouldn’t change anything. Thank you for this wonderful recipe.

  6. Growing up eating Sausage & Peppers you don’t think about all those who don’t … and LIVE A LITTE, find yourself a Butcher Shop or even a Whole Foods or Mariano’s which has really good Italian Sausage, Mild, Spicy, Sweet …

  7. This is the best sausage and peppers ever!!! Made as directed and it was delicious!!! Thanks for sharing.

  8. DeeDee DuBose

    This recipe has consistently been great every time I’ve made it! Of course everyone’s going to add their own unique style to it and in my opinion, that’s what makes it so fantastic. You can switch out the type of sausage you use (we use Brawts), the color of peppers, add more tomato paste and it still turns out soooo tasty. It’s so easy to follow that I’m sending my 20 year old son the recipe, who told me he was sick of pasta…and that their has to be something else he can make that’s, “easy.” Thanks so much for posting this!

  9. Instead of using tomato paste and chopped tomato, I used leftover homemade meat sauce I froze from a lasagna I made on Christmas Eve.

  10. Charles Rose

    Just made the hoagie with toasted Philly rolls. Delicious! Wife especially liked the red pepper flakes. Thanks!

  11. Heide Fries

    Excellent recipe. I didn’t have tomatoes or paste but instead I used a 15 oz can of Cento pizza sauce I had in the pantry. Instead of serving on a grinder roll I had a 1/2 lb of Ditalini pasta left over from another time. Makes the perfect bowl of comfort food! YUMMMMM!!!

  12. I made some adjustments to suit our family. I used hot links from my grocery store rather than Johnsonville and omitted the tomato paste. Added a bit of cayenne pepper for an extra kick and a small amount of sugar to my sauce as I do with all tomato recipies to kill the tartness. Also kept the links whole for hoagies. Added some provolone on top at the end. I thought it came out wonderful. I had the tomato paste on hand and intended to use it but the sauce looked and smelled lovely before I added it so figured no need. Wonderful meal!

    1. I will never understand why people rate a recipe when they have altered it so much it doesn’t even resemble the original recipe they are reviewing. This is one of my favorite meals, the flavors of the peppers and onions with the Italian Sausage is devine.

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