Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Italian Sausage Sandwiches

Ingredients
  • 5 Italian sausages (mild or hot)
  • 4 large Italian hard crust hoagies
  • 2 bell peppers (red and orange. Round slices)
  • 1 large red onion (thin round slices)
  • 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
  • 3 Tblsp butter
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • Italian seasoning blend
  • Crushed red pepper



Preparation 
  1. Place sausages in a large pan and fill it up with water to just about cover the sausages. Poke the sausages with a fork a little bit.  Bring water to a boil and then lower heat and simmer for about 12 minutes. This will cook the sausages on the inside without burning the casing.
  2. In a separate frying pan add some olive oil and sautee the onion, the peppers, and the garlic.Add more olive oil on top of vegetables for more taste. Cook for about 8 to 10 minutes.
  3. Throw out the water and return pan to stove to brown the sausage casings (about 3 to 5 minutes)
  4. Remove the sausages and cut them into diagonal pieces for easy assembly on the bread. 
  5. Return to the pan and add the vegetables from the other pan.  Mix and cook for about a minute or two to blend all the tastes.
  6. Cut the hoagies length wise and place in the oven to broil for about 2 minutes.  
  7. While the bread is broiling melt the butter with a little bit more olive oil and the other minced garlic clove.
  8. Remove the bread from the oven and brush the melted butter on each hoagie so that it soaks up all that good garlic butter taste.
  9. With a tong place the sausage and the vegetables inside each hoagie.  
Experience

I had the pleasure of showing Austin, our friend, how to make this dish.  She helped me from the start and I had a great time putting it together and eating it!  Cooking the sausages in the water first is great because you don't get that burned smoky smell around the house that you get when you cook it straight on the pan.  They were perfectly cooked on the inside and browned on the outside.  Slicing them up into smaller diagonal pieces made it easier to eat too.  I served it with some roasted garlic golden potatoes and my sister made us a lettuce and tomato salad with some red wine vinaigrette!  All in all we had a good time and enjoyed some good food!  Oh, PLEASE don't use regular soft white bread for this!  Hard crust italian bread is the way to go! 

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