Does anyone here have a really good recipe involving italian sausage, onions, bell peppers and potatoes? I’ve looked around online but figure I’ll get better results here.
Growing up, my Mom would make this in a casserole dish with the ingredients layered. I’d call and ask her, but hers was always a bit more bland than I’d prefer (though I still have fond memories of slathering cooked potato and onion onto heavily buttered italian bread and having the butter run onto the dish).
I’m really in the mood for this, or a similar dish. To get started, I have sweet italian sausage, yellow and red onion, green and red bell peppers and russet potatoes in my fridge.
Hopefully I’ll be having this for dinner tomorrow night.
The ingredients you list sound like the playbook for an out of this world omlette, frankly. But if this is dinner food, you may want to try rakott krumpli, a dish from my mum’s side of my family (i.e., Hungarian):
I see no good reason why you can’t incorporate peppers and onions into it. It would just make it richer and more flavorful. The only variant is whether your Italian sausage is a good stand-in for Hungarian Kolbasz. How dry is your sausage?
My mom made something similar with pasta instead of potatoes… you sautee up the onions and peppers with garlic, oregano, basil, and maybe some dried chili flakes. She’d then simmer the sausages and pasta in the sauce, but there’s no reason you couldn’t layer everything together. You’d want to make sure all the liquid from the vegetables had cooked down first.
I see no way to go wrong with those ingredients. Put them all together in any sort of pot or pan, heat it all up via any method at all, and you’re likely to get something good.
I roast them in the oven. I’ve been making this for decades as it is a favorite, but only a few months back I discovered a trick to get the potatoes a bit crisper - I cook them separate from the onions. Basically, I roast the potatoes (use whatever roast potato recipe you like). I pre-cook the onions in the microwave (3 minutes, stir, 3 more minutes), then stick them in a disposable pan with the peppers and a little oil, put the sausage on top, and stick them in the oven with the potatoes. Spin the sausage every 15 minutes so they brown on all sides until done.
Cut up the potates and fry in some oil until they start getting browned. Add the sausage and continue cooking. Chop the peppers and onions and add to the pan. Saute until they’re done as you like. Instant meal. Top with a fried egg or two, if you wish. Man, I used to live on this stuff.