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Sausage and Peppers

Ingredients
  

  • 10 sausage links I used cheese & parsley pork sausage links
  • 1 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 5 peppers assorted red, yellow, orange, sliced
  • 3 onions sliced

sauce

  • 1 T. olive oil
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves minced
  • ½ cup red wine
  • 28 ounces crushed tomatoes
  • 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
  • 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
  • fresh pepper
  • 8 ounces cooked pasta penne

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400.
  • Heat large cast iron skillet on stove to preheat.
  • Add a T. of olive oil and pan fry links to brown on all sides.
  • Finish cooking in the oven until 160 degrees inside. This took approx 10 mins.
  • Remove from oven and place sausages with most of the pan juices in a bowl.
  • Add fresh olive oil (1-2 T.) and when hot, add peppers. Cook to brown them a bit and
  • then add onions as they need less time. Saute until transluscent. Add garlic.
  • Meanwhile, slice sausages and add to the peppers and onions with any pan juices in the bowl.

Sauce

  • Heat olive oil in 12-inch skillet.
  • Add the onions and cook 5 mins.
  • Add garlic and cook 1 minute.
  • Add the wine and cook on high heat deglazing the bottom until most of the wine evaporates, about 3 mins.
  • Add tomatoes, parsley, salt, and pepper.
  • Cover, and simmer on the lowest heat for 15 minutes.
  • Add the pasta.
  • Serve the sausage and peppers over the pasta!