Wow! This is about as Italian as it gets. This dish can be made with both the chicken and sausage or just one or the other. I used chicken thighs but chicken breasts will work just fine, and one of my photos shows chicken breasts. Your choice in tweaking little things like that.
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These sausage hoagies are wonderful for a fast meal. They are nutritious, delicious, and done in one skillet.
Cut onion and green pepper in thin strips and saute in small amount of oil. Brown sausage, if desired. Combine all ingredients in large pan. Add tomato paste, water, and Italian seasonings.
My best friend and I were doing a 2 week low carb and zero bread challenge, so I had to come up with a lot of filling dishes that went by the rules. This was one of them. So full of flavour and textures, I'd eat this even without a challenge!
If you have a recipe that calls for sausage, and you don't have sausage, but do have hamburger, try this: Add 1 pkg. of Italian seasoning dressing mix. You will have it close to tasting like sausage.
Brown ground beef and onion. Slices garlic and add salt, pepper, oregano, parsley, tomato paste, water and tomato sauce to meat. Simmer uncovered for 30 minutes. Cook lasagna noodles as label directs. Drain and cover with cold water.
Fry sausage and drain. Put tomatoes, peppers, onions and sausage in a bowl. Add salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste. Mix in bowl. Slice squash. Put layer of squash in bottom of 9x13 dish.
This versatile, crowd pleasing favorite can be served over pasta accompanied by garlic bread, salad and a great Cabernet for an elegant, easy dinner party. Or, serve on Italian Bread as a special addition to a casual barbecue.
I like Italian sausage cooked with bell peppers and onions. I had to find a healthy way to reduce cholesterol, avoid grease, and I am trying to avoid beef, therefore I use ground turkey or Morningstar Farms meatless products.
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My parents and I really enjoy sweet Italian sausage. We have very limited ways of preparing it. Normally we fry or grill them and eat them on hotdog buns or bagels. We would really appreciate any casserole dishes or other ways to prepare these sausage. We looked in a couple cook books with no success what so ever.
Thank you.
By Suntydt from Tazewell, TN
What I do is to add the sweet sausage to meat sauce but first I steam my sausage in a fry pan with filled water not covering the sausage and cover the pan leaving a slight opening this way. Here it steams all the fat out and it tastes better then I just add it to my sauce that has already been cooking, it gives the sauce a better flavor and the taste of the sausage with the sauce it quite yummy and you can add meatballs or a thin slice of center cut pork chop (you can just throw the chop in the sauce and it will cook fully in the sauce).
If you take the skin off the sausage or just buy the sausage meat you can also make sausage burgers which are really good too on the grill.
Here's a good recipe for Tuscan sausage soup:
www.recipe.com/
A good one for a casserole:
www.cookiesfromitaly.com/
There are oodles of assorted yummy sounding sweet sausage recipes here by top chefs:
www.foodnetwork.com/
And for kielbasa recipes you were also asking about:
www.foodnetwork.com/
A pretty quick way we always prepare it is to take the Italian sausage links and cut them into coins. Take a 1-2" deep skillet and add about a tablespoon of minced or chopped garlic and enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan and go a bit up the sides and start to heat it up (you can add a pat or two of butter for richness if you like).
Let the pan barely simmer for a little while to blend the garlic flavor into the oil but not burn. Then add sliced peppers and onions and the sausage coins and sauté them all together until veggies are crisp tender and sausage is cooked through. Pour over cooked cheese tortellini or your favorite cooked pasta and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning and a bit of crushed red pepper. Stir and add more oil if necessary and serve.
Note - you can also swap out the pasta for brown rice, lentils, barley or quinoa and/or mix up the veggies and seasonings used for something different too. We often add a handful of spinach, chard or kale to the skillet, toward the end of the cooking process, until it's wilted before pouring over the pasta.
You can try going to any sausage makers site and look at their recipes and just swap out your Italian sweet sausage for their sausage. For example you could go to Al Fresco's web site where they have chicken sausage recipes and you would just replace with your type of sausage in the recipe instead. www.alfrescoallnatural.com/
You can remove the meat from the casings, and use it like ground beef for spaghetti, lasagne, meatloaf, meatballs, etc. I usually mix it with a little gound pork or beef, to stretch the sausage a little.
It adds a different, nice taste to these meals.
An update to my previous answer: I made this dish last night and measured out the olive oil I used in the skillet and it was 3/4 of a cup. Just wanted to put down something a little more difinitive for everyone :~)
We learned from my husband's grandmother to make Italian Sausage and spaghetti. We now love it more than meatballs. Just fry up the sausage and slice. Add the slices to your spaghetti sauce and let it simmer.
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This is a very tasty (non-tomato based) pasta dish that I thought I would try out.
This quick meal consists of sliced Italian sausage, sliced onions, and cut up bell peppers. Roast them in your oven or toaster oven for a yummy dish.
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