Italian
Sausage and Peppers
Sausage and Peppers is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 8 Italian sausage links
- 3 bell peppers
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 15 oz crushed tomatoes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 2 tbsp chopped basil
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium and brown the sausages on all sides, about 8 minutes, then set aside.
- Add the sliced peppers and onion to the pan and cook until softened and lightly charred, about 8 minutes.
- Stir in the garlic and oregano and cook 1 minute.
- Pour in the crushed tomatoes and season with salt.
- Slice the sausages, return them to the pan, and simmer until cooked through and the sauce thickens, about 10 minutes.
- Scatter with basil and serve.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sausage and Peppers carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Sausage and Peppers takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on sausage, bell pepper, and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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