Italian Sausage and Peppers Sub
Italian Sausage and Peppers Sub- For these subs, you’ll start with the onions, slicing two big sweet ones and setting them in a hot pan with a couple of gurgles of olive oil.
Season with salt, black pepper and a shake of red-pepper flakes, then cook over medium heat, stirring and tossing occasionally so that they go golden and soft.
This’ll take a while.
Add a couple of sliced bell peppers to the pan, and continue cooking, still stirring and tossing, until they begin to wilt.
Set the vegetables aside.
About halfway through, set some sweet Italian sausages in another hot, oil-slicked pan, and cook them through until crisp and brown on the exterior, turning often.
Split your sub rolls (I like the sesame-seeded variety here) and scrape out a little of the interior from each.
Load one side of each roll with some of the onions and peppers, the other with a sausage.
Top with mozzarella, put the open sandwiches on a sheet pan and slide them all into a hot oven for five minutes or so, until the cheese is melted and the bread is lightly toasted.
Fold together and serve.
Italian Sausage and Peppers Sub
How to Cook Italian Sausage
Unlike smoked sausage, Italian sausage needs to be cooked to 160°F as it is a raw ground pork product.
Cooking sausage too high, too fast and unevenly can cause links to be too dark on the outside and still raw at the center or the skins to split and disintegrate.
Gradually bringing them up to heat, and turned for even browning will allow for perfect sausages.
To avoid them curling you can skewer them lengthwise or place in a barbecue clamp.
Do not pierce the skin.
This is a common tip that appears on many recipes but it’s not ideal.
Unfortunately, this will cause all those lovely juices to escape as well, sort of defeating the whole purpose of encasing meat in an impermeable membrane to hold the juices in.
How to Cook Italian Sausage on the Stovetop
Place links in a skillet in water.
Bring slowly to a simmer, cover and cook for 10 -12 minutes, covered.
Uncover, allow water to evaporate and continue cooking, turning frequently until browned.
How to Cook Italian Sausage in the Oven
Place links on foil-lined baking sheet.
Place in cold oven and turn heat to 350°F.
Cook for 25-35 minutes or until internal temperature registers 160°F.
How to Cook Italian Sausage on the Grill
Place on a 375°F grill and close the lid.
Turn every until uniformly browned about 15 to 20 minutes or until the pork reaches 160°F.
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