Italian Sausage And Peppers On Toasted Garlic Buns Recipes

ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND PEPPERS ON TOASTED GARLIC BUNS

Steps:

• Instructions
• Poke the sausages all over with a fork.
• In a large, deep, heavy skillet, pour in the extra virgin olive oil, heat on medium heat.
• Place the sausages in and cook until fairly brown.
• Add the garlic to the sausages when they are not fully cooked, but fairly golden brown, so that the garlic does not burn from cooking too long.
• Place the sausages into a large (13 x 9?) baking dish, draining the oil to stay in the skillet.
• Place the sausages in a pre-heated 400 degree oven to stay warm while cooking the peppers and onions.
• Add the sliced onions to the hot left-over olive oil in the skillet.
• Cook onions until browned and caramelized, but still crunchy, 6 minutes.
• Add mushrooms to the cooked onions until browned and caramelized, 6 minutes.
• Add the cooked onions and mushrooms to the sausages in the oven, draining the oil from them to be left in the skillet to saute' the peppers.
• Add more olive oil to the pan if there is not enough.
• Add all of the peppers and saute' 6 minutes; keep them at a nice level of crunchiness, not wilted or soft.
• Remove the sausages, onion, and mushrooms from the oven.
• Add the peppers to the sausage, onions, and mushrooms to the sausage mixture.
• Add the oregano, basil and red pepper flakes; blend well
• Add tomato sauce and wine at this point and carefully blend together.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Return to the 400 degree oven and bake uncovered for 20 minutes.
• While baking, melt a stick of butter.
• Add garlic powder to the melted butter to your preference level, about a Tablespoon.
• Blend well.
• With a pastry brush, thoroughly and heavily brush on the garlic butter on both sides of the hoagie/submarine buns.
• After the sausage, peppers, and onions are done baking, turn on the BROILER.
• Place the buns under the broiler for about 2 - 3 minutes and watch them so they do not burn!
• When golden brown, remove from the oven.
• Place a sausage on each bun and smother with the peppers, mushrooms, and onions!

ITALIAN SAUSAGE - PEPPERS AND ONIONS IN A BUN

Steps:

• Prep vegetables and onions according to ingredients list.
• In a large skillet over medium-high heat brown sausage on both sides; remove from pan and set aside.
• Cook the onions and garlic over medium heat for about 3 minutes, using the butter.
• Add the wine, green pepper, red pepper, and seasonings. Bring the mixture to a boil and work the sausages into the pepper mixture. Cook covered until vegetables are tender and sausage is done.
• Serve with a link of sausage topped with the vegetable mixture.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE HOAGIES

Steps:

• To prepare the onion-pepper mixture, slice the peppers into long strips about 1/2 inch thick and thinly slice the onions.
• Sauté both together in a heavy pan in a few tablespoons of olive oil until they are soft and onions are beginning to turn golden brown.
• Make a garlic butter by mashing together about two cloves of roasted garlic (if you don't want to roast it yourself, jars of roasted garlic can be found at most grocery stores these days) with 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
• Grill or pan fry the sausages until cooked through (it helps to preboil them for about 5 minutes; it cuts down on the grease and grilling/frying time); slice the buns and grill lightly once the sausages are ready; alternatively, the buns can be lightly browned in either a toaster or a hot lightly oiled pan.
• Brush the buns with the garlic butter, carefully put 1/4 cup mozzarella on one side of each bun and place in each bun a sausage and a good amount of the pepper-onion mixture and serve hot.