Sausages With Caramelized Red Onions And Radicchio Recipes

GRILLED SAUSAGES WITH CARAMELIZED ONIONS AND APPLES

Steps:

• Prepare grill for high heat.
• With a fork, poke sausages several times. Place in a pot, cover with water, and simmer over medium-high heat until cooked through, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat, and set aside.
• Warm butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onions, and cook until soft and translucent. Stir in apples, vinegar, and brown sugar; cook, stirring gently, until caramelized, about 10 to 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Meanwhile, place sausages on grill (or under broiler), and cook until well browned. Serve on a mound of caramelized apples and onions.

SAUSAGES WITH CARAMELIZED RED ONIONS AND RADICCHIO

Steps:

• Melt butter with 1 teaspoon olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add red onions and cook until soft and golden brown, stirring often, about 25 minutes. Add radicchio and sauté until wilted, about 2 minutes. Add balsamic vinegar and cook over medium-high heat until liquid is absorbed, about 1 minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Keep onion-radicchio mixture warm while preparing sausages.
• Heat remaining 1 teaspoon olive oil in another heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken-apple sausages and cook until sausages are well browned and heated through, turning frequently, about 5 minutes.
• Serve onion-radicchio mixture alongside sausages.

GRILLED SAUSAGES AND RADICCHIO

Steps:

• Light or heat up the grill. Halve radicchios lengthwise through stem end, and toss with 1 tablespoon olive oil (or more if you need it to coat) and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
• Put radicchios, cut side down, and sausages on the grill and cover. Let cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until outer radicchio leaves are dark brown. Transfer to a cutting board and let cool while sausages finish cooking, about 5 minutes more.
• When cool enough to handle, thinly slice radicchios. The outsides should be charred, and the insides should still be crisp and raw. Combine in a bowl with another 2 tablespoons olive oil and the juice of half a lemon. Taste and correct seasonings, adding lemon juice, salt and olive oil to taste.
• Spread radicchio on a platter and top with grilled sausages. Garnish with basil and serve.

SAUSAGE WITH SAUTEED RED ONIONS AND THYME

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place a large saute pan over medium-low heat. When hot, add olive oil and sausage, pricked every few inches with the point of a knife, and cook until nicely browned, about 10 minutes. Turn sausage over, prick with knife, and cook until browned, about 10 minutes.
• Transfer sausage to a baking pan, and place in oven, leaving rendered fat in saute pan. Add onions to saute pan, and stir. Add 1/2 cup water, and scrape brown bits from bottom of pan with a wooden spoon. Cover, and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until onions are very soft, 15 to 20 minutes, adding a second 1/2 cup water if pan becomes dry. Remove lid, and stir in thyme. Season with salt and pepper. Remove sausage from oven, and serve.

PORK SAUSAGES WITH CARAMELIZED ONION SAUCE

Steps:

• Warm oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir in onions, and cook until soft, about 10 minutes. Stir in salt and sugar. Reduce heat to medium low, cover, and cook 20 minutes. Stir in flour, then add broth. Stir well. Cover, leaving the lid slightly ajar, and cook 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare oven broiler.
• Place sausages on a broiling pan; place under the broiler, and cook, turning occasionally, until the skin is dark brown and the sausages are cooked through, about 20 minutes. Pour onion sauce over sausages.

SAUSAGE WITH STEWED RED ONIONS

Steps:

• In a cast-iron skillet over medium heat, brown sausage in oil on all sides, about 20 minutes. Remove from pan, and keep warm. Do not wash pan.
• Cook onions in same pan over medium heat, stirring often, until tender and translucent, about 15 minutes.
• Add vinegar and cook 1 minute. Add 1 cup water, salt, pepper, and whole rosemary leaves, and cook over medium-high heat, scraping bottom of pan, until reduced by half.
• Lower heat to a simmer, and return sausage to pan. Simmer together with onions for 5 to 10 minutes. Serve immediately.