Baked Italian Sausage with Mediterranean Veggies
Oven Baked Italian Sausage in the oven and be free to do “whatever” while it cooks up. Because it’s all in one pan and you just have to turn everything over once in the middle of the baking.
Today’s Tip ==> Give a stale loaf of bread a new life by running it quickly under a faucet, then baking it in a warm, 300°F (149C) oven for about 10 minutes. The oven steams the stale bread and makes it as good as new. Thank you Hannah Loewentheil
Ingredients
These amounts are for 4 servings
- 8 links Italian sausage – hot or mild
- 1 large Idaho or Russet potato
- 2 large fresh zucchini
- 1 fresh rebel pepper
- one fresh green bell pepper or 2 poblano peppers
- 1 large onion
- 6 large cloves garlic coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 tbsp. dried basil
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
- grated parmesan cheese for serving
And here is how to easily put together your Baked Italian Sausage with Mediterranean Veggies
Turn the oven on at 400°F/200°C. Line a large cookie sheet with aluminum foil to make the cleanup lots easier. The sausage and the potato are going to take longer to cook than the rest of the veggies so let’s give them a head start. Cut up the sausage links into 3 pieces each and spread them out in the pan.
Put the pan in the oven while you cut up the potato into chunks.
Add the potato chunks to the pan and put it back in the oven while you cut up the rest of the veggies. Try to get the chunks about the same size as the potatoes. Add them to the pan and drizzle with some extra virgin olive oil. Add the spices and gently toss it all a little with a large cooks spoon to get everything covered with the oil and the spices.
Put the pan back in the oven and at about 10-12 minutes gently turn everything over and give it about another 10-12 minutes.
Take one of the pieces of sausage out and cut it in half. If the center has no pink color to it, it is done. Poke one of the pieces of potato with a fork and make sure you are happy with how done it is. If it’s all the way you like it, serve up your Oven Baked Italian Sausage with Mediterranean Veggies!
Now, wasn’t that an easy, but still, real good dinner? Chianti. It’s gotta be Chianti with this. Well, that’s what we like. But, you have whatever YOU like with your, easy, one pan Oven Baked Italian Sausage with Mediterranean Veggies. And, you could have some of Poppop’s homemade bread to dip in the juices.
And here is a Rustic Italian Sausage Recipe . this one is from Puglia in the southeast of Italia, where my grandmother immigrated from.
Oven Baked Italian Sausage with Mediterranean Veggies
Ingredients
- 8 links Italian sausage hot or mild
- 1 large potato
- 2 fresh zucchini
- 1 fresh red pepper
- 1 fresh green pepper or 2 poblano
- 1 large onion
- 6 cloves garlic very coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
- grated parmesan cheese for serving
Instructions
- Turn the oven on at 400°F/200°C. Line a large cookie sheet with aluminum foil to make the cleanup lots easier. The sausage and the potato are going to take longer to cook than the rest of the veggies so lets give them a head start. Cut up the sausage links into 3 pieces each and spread them out in the pan.
- Put the pan in the oven while you cut up the potato into chunks. Add the potato chunks to the pan and put it back in the oven while you cut up the rest of the veggies. Try to get the chunks about the same size as the potatoes. Add them to the pan and drizzle with some extra virgin olive oil. Add the spices and gently toss it all a little with a large cooks spoon to get everything covered with the oil and the spices.
- Put the pan back in the oven and at about 10-12 minutes gently turn everything over and give it about another 10-12 minutes.
- Take one of the pieces of sausage out and cut it in half. If the center has no pink color to it, it is done. Poke a piece of potato with a fork and make sure you are happy with how done it is. If it'a all the way you like it, serve up your Oven Baked Italian Sausage with Mediterranean Veggies!
Yeah Joan! And thank you! “Sausage and peppers” are one of the many things that always reminds me of Jersey. And my Texas wife has grown to love them too! Whooda thunk it? And yeah, baking them in the oven cuts down on the fat. So, we can have them more often. Right?
What a great way to lower calories with a much beloved dish!