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Sausage and Peppers
Ingredients
- 1 lb sweet italian sausage sliced along the middle and flattened
- 1 cubanelle pepper rough chopped
- 1 red pepper rough chopped
- 1 green pepper rough chopped
- 1 sweet onion diced
- 3 garlic cloves smashed
- 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
- dried oregano
- dried basil
- salt & pepper
- knob of butter
- olive oil
Instructions
Preparation
- Begin by prepping your veggies – chop your onions and peppers, smash your garlic, and slice open your sausage and flatten them out.
Cooking
- In a large skillet, add a drizzle of olive oil and allow to heat up.
- Once heated, add sausage, cut side first, to the pan and cook till brown on both sides. The sausage doesn't have to be cooked through yet because you will be adding it again later and steaming it. Once brown, remove and set aside.
- To the same pan add a dash more oil, the cut vegetables and season lightly with salt (because sausage is salty), pepper, basil, and oregano. Sautee until softened.
- While the vegetables are cooking, slice the sausage into cubes or slivers, it depends on how YOU like your sausage (that sounded inappropriate haha!)
- Add tomato paste to the center and a knob of butter. Stir in till fully incorporated and then toss in your cut sausage and all its juices to your pan.
- Cover with a lid and let the sausage cook through and the vegetables soften, roughly about 5-10 minutes.
- Eat just like that, or add it to a hero for a sandwich, OR boil some pasta and toss the pasta directly into the pan for a sausage and pepper pasta! Dealers choice!
Video
La Festa di Santa Rosalia
When I think of Sausage and Peppers, my brain automatically associates it with the 18th Avenue Feast I used to attend when I was a kid. And I specifically resonate it with the Lucy’s truck that, in my opinion, served the best Sausage and Pepper Sandwiches at the entire feast. The St. Rosalie feast was one that I frequented almost every summer as a teen but you may be more familiar with the Saint Gennaro Feast that takes place in Little Italy. They too get a Lucy’s truck so if you ever go, give it a try.
Saint Gennaro is the patron saint of Palermo, Sicily. The town where my family is from, Castrofilippo, has the patron St Antonio Abate, who was known to help heal the sick of diseases – or so my nonna says. Italians through these feast for the patron saints and carry the saint around the town where people usually attach money to the saints cape. St. Antonio Abate’s Feast usually takes place in Astoria Queens which holds many of Castrofilippos former residents. I read once that about 20,000 people in New York City hail from Castrofilippo, which amazes me because it is quite a small town! I digress, back to food.
The S & P
While I love a good feast Sausage and Pepper – at home, we have to make things a little simpler to eat. I can shove down this whole sausage in a bun every night! So, my version calls for smaller pieces that you can eat without bread, or even add to a pasta, to make for an easy weeknight dinner. It isn’t the healthiest, but it is certainly the easiest to add to rotation and I am all about making life easier.
Sausage and peppers is one of my favorite easy meals and I truly hope it becomes a staple in yours too!
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