The BEST Sausage and Peppers
This restaurant-style sausage and peppers recipe is packed with buttery caramelized onions, sweet peppers, rich tomato paste, and spicy hot cherry peppers for incredible flavor. Serve it on toasted buns or over rice for an easy comforting dinner everyone will love.
Equipment
Ingredients
- Mild Italian sausage
- 3 bell peppers
- 2 large sweet onions
- 3-4 hot cherry peppers + splash of vinegar from jar
- 3 oz tomato paste
- Salt and pepper
- 5 cloves garlic sliced
- 3 tbsp butter
- 3-4 tbsp olive oil
- 3 tbsp mayo
- 1 tbsp Cherry Hoagie Spread
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Drizzle sausage with olive oil and bake for 30 minutes.
- Slice peppers and onions and season with salt and pepper.
- In a skillet, heat butter and olive oil over medium-high heat. Cook peppers, onions, and garlic until golden.
- Stir in tomato paste, hot cherry peppers, vinegar into the skillet. Saute another 5- 10 minutes until the peppers and onions are the color of the sunset and deeply golden and soft. Add more olive oil if needed.
- Remove the sausage out of the oven after the first 30 minutes. Push the sausage to the side and add all of the peppers and onions into the baking pan with sausage. Then, place sausage on top of the peppers and onions. (In a small cup, mix the mayo and the cherry hoagie spread together; if you are turning these into hoagies)
- Bake another 20-30 minutes at 375 degrees. Once the sausage is golden brown it's done!
- Serve on buns or over rice, with the cherry hoagie spread!
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