Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ultimate sausage and peppers

Good evening everyone and welcome back to football season.  Whether you are a fan or not this is the time of year where we get together from the busy summer and start to reconvene to end the year.  With football here so is the food.  My sausage and pepper recipe is a combination of old and new with a little twist.  Normally you would use green peppers and onions and fry them in a skillet then grill your sausage and put everything together.

This recipe calls for yellow, green, and red peppers.  In addition we are also going to use vidalia onions and instead of thick sausage links we are going to grill thin links.

Ingredients:
2 green peppers
2 yellow peppers
2 red peppers not the hot ones
one pound of thin sausage links which can be found at your local Italian deli or butcher.
3 tbsp olive oil
kosher salt
paprika
Garlic powder
Black pepper

You are going to cut your peppers in half and clean out the seeds, then you are going to cut them again in 1/4 inch strips.
Clean your onion and cut into strips also.  Put them all together in either a metal or ceramic tray.  Add the olive oil and spices about a 1 tbsp of each spice and preheat your oven or grill at 400 degrees.  Your peppers are going to take about 45 to 60 minutes to cook. Also if you are cooking your peppers in the oven don't forget to put tin foil around the tray so that you create a tent, if you don't they will dry out.  This does have to be used if you are using a grill.  You know when they are done when you can easily stick a fork through them.
Your peppers are also not going to be hot,  red and yellow peppers are very sweet compared to green and when you add the vidalia onion it even becomes sweeter.
Cook your sausage in the oven or grill also at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes or until they are golden brown.  Remember that pork sausage you want the internal temperature at over 180 degrees.



After you are done cooking you are going to want to put this together so just get your Italian bread add the links and the peppers and enjoy.
The taste of the sweet peppers mixed with the sausage and onions is amazing.  Have a great time with this dish and the only prep time is cutting your vegetables.  Have a great season don't loose to much money betting on the games.