Sausage and Peppers ~ A Delicious, Easy Way!
The tomato paste makes its own sauce steamed with the peppers in the oven! You add just a little sauce after an hour. Nothing could be easier! See the steps how to make it in the slideshow.
Servings:
Calories: 333
Equipment
- 13x9-inch Pan
- aluminum foil
Ingredients
- 9 bell peppers any color
- 1 pound Italian sausage sweet or hot, or ground sweet or hot sausage, or chorizo sausage
- 6 ounces tomato paste plain, or tomato paste with spices
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar (optional)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350º.
- Slice the peppers. Place them in a 9x13--inch pan. The peppers will be a high mound but they will cook way down.
- If you are using sausage links, remove the casing from the sausage. Crumble the sausage over the peppers and stir to mix the sausage in between the peppers. Or you can use ground sausage. Or you can keep the casing on and slice the sausage.
- Place dollops of tomato paste all over the top.
- Cover the pan loosely with aluminum foil and bake for 1 hour.
- Lift the foil, add the tomato sauce, brown sugar if you using it, salt and pepper. Stir to mix well. Replace the aluminum foil loosely and bake for another 15 minutes or until peppers are tender.
- Let it cool for 2 or 3 minutes before serving.
EXTRA TIP:
BROWN SUGAR: This is totally optional. I just like to use brown sugar to cut the acidity of tomatoes a little bit.
PEPPERS: Bell peppers in all colors are traditionally used in this dish. You can experiment with various other peppers you may like.
LINKS OR CRUMBLED? My personal preference is to use crumbled sausage, but I know some people like the link sausage cut into chunks. Either way, it is delicious!
TOMATO PASTE: My favorite for this dish is plain tomato paste by Hunt's. To me, the sausage gives it enough spice. But add your own spices to your own taste. You can also use the tomato paste with added spices.
ONIONS; Sometimes I add sliced onions if I feel like it.
VARIATION: Chorizo sausage! A yummy variation to try sometime!
LEFTOVERS? Put into freezer containers and freeze for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Calories: 333kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 57mg | Sodium: 1277mg | Potassium: 863mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 1182IU | Vitamin C: 153mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 3mg