This recipe for Italian Sweet Sausage and Peppers Sandwich is a delicious, hearty, and easy to make sandwich recipe the whole family will love. They are the perfect balance of sweet and savory flavors served in a buttery toasted hoagie roll.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
Fair food at home: if you love the Italian sausage sandwiches at the fair, you will love that you can make them right at home with minimal effort!
Hearty meal: sausage and pepper sandwiches are satisfying and delicious. Can enjoyed as lunch or dinner with a side of potato or macaroni salad.|
Versatile: you can customize your sandwich by using a spicy sausage or any of your favorite flavored sausages.
🥘 Ingredients
Green bell peppers
Onion: use a white or yellow onion
Garlic cloves
Sweet Italian Sausage Links
Hoagie rolls: be sure the hoagie rolls you choose are sturdy enough to hold up to the fillings. I usually find mine in the bakery section of the grocery store.
Cheese slices: this is optional, cheese fans may want to add a slice of their favorite cheese to the sandwich.
🔪 How To Make Italian Sausage Sandwiches
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and garlic and sauté until onions have wilted slightly.
- Add bell peppers, salt, and black pepper. Stir to combine.
- Cover and cook, stirring occasionally for 15 minutes, until peppers are fork tender.
- Transfer onion mixture to a separate bowl and set aside.
- Place sausages in skillet. Cover and cook for 20 minutes, until browned on all sides and internal temperature is 160 degrees
- Return peppers and onion mixture to the skillet with the cooked sausages and keep warm.
- To toast hoagie rolls, cut in half without cutting all the way through the roll. Butter each cut side of the roll.
- Place buttered rolls cut side down in a hot skillet and cook for 1-2 minutes, until roll is golden brown and toasty.
- Place a whole sausage in a toasted hoagie roll and top with peppers and onions as desired. Serve with spicy brown mustard.
🥄 Equipment
Large skillet
Cutting board
Chef knife
Tongs
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftover sausage and peppers in an airtight container up to 4 days.
Reheat: warm whole sausages in a covered skillet over medium low heat with about ¼ cup of water until warmed through.
📖 Variations
- Cook the sausages on the grill instead of the skillet
- Substitute hot Italian sausage for the sweet.
- Add a dash of red pepper flakes to the onion mixture.
- Spread the sandwich rolls with garlic butter and toast cut sides down in a hot skillet.
- Use this Cheesy Italian Bread recipe in place of the hoagie rolls.
💭 Tips
- Add a splash of red wine vinegar to the onions and peppers to deglaze the pan. I've also used a bourbon balsamic vinegar that was delish!
- Stir in a tablespoon of tomato paste and ¼ cup water with the cooked peppers for added flavor.
📚 Sausage Recipes
Chicken Sausage Pizza is an Italian sausage sandwich on a pizza crust for the best of both worlds.
This deep dish Sausage Mushroom Onion Pizza is another favorite of sausage fans.
Deliciously low carb, these Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms are a family favorite.
🍽 Serve with..
Serve whole sausages in a toasted hoagie roll topped with pepper and onion mixture and spicy brown mustard.
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📖 Recipe
Italian Sausage and Pepper Sandwiches
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Ingredients
- 1½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 green bell pepper , sliced
- 1 red bell pepper , sliced
- 1 large onion , sliced
- 2 cloves fresh garlic , minced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper , freshly ground
- 5 Italian Sweet Sausage Links
- 5 hoagie sandwich rolls
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and garlic and sauté until onions have wilted slightly.
- Add bell peppers, salt, and black pepper. Stir to combine.
- Cover and cook, stirring occasionally for 15 minutes, until peppers are fork tender.
- Transfer onion mixture to a separate bowl and set aside.
- Place sausages in skillet. Cover and cook for 20 minutes, until browned on all sides and internal temperature is 160 degrees.
- Return peppers and onion mixture to the skillet with the cooked sausages and keep warm.
- To toast hoagie rolls, cut in half without cutting all the way through the roll. Butter each cut side of the roll.
- Place buttered rolls cut side down in a hot skillet and cook for 1-2 minutes, until roll is golden brown and toasty.
- Place a whole sausage in a toasted hoagie roll and top with peppers and onions as desired. Serve with spicy brown mustard.
Creative One
Looks delicious! I haven't had this in quite sometime.
J.Danger
Gah! My husband does that too! After a while I got wise to it, so every time he would not answer the phone I would make something that I knew was not exactly his favorite. When he would try to complain I would say "well I called you three or four times about dinner honey". He got wise to it to. Now he just picks up!
averagebetty
Who doesn't love a sausage sandwich? Perfect, Honey B!
Aggie
I always feel like I'm in a slump for dinner...
This looks AWESOME and would be loved at our house. This is a great go to meal...sausage can be easily defrosted too. Looks great!!
Elle
They look SO good! Sausage and peppers is one of my favorite dishes ever! And now i have a craving, lol.
Laura
I'm impressed you cooked something--those are the nights I call John for take out.
foodrenegade.com
This looks great! Who needs buns? I'd gobble that sausage and pepper medley up by itself!
Elyse
Wow, these sandwiches look wonderful! I'm always on the lookout for easy and delicious dinners, and this looks perfect. I'd love to try it with the Italian turkey sausage. Love your blog!
My Carolina Kitchen
Gorgeous pictures. I agree that adding the vinegar would make a big difference. I like your blog and will be back.
Sam
Pam
Yum. My husbands the same way - he never has meal ideas. I have been in a slump lately too - thankfully I have great cookbooks that I checked out from the library to give me inspiration.
Christine aka Mistress of Cakes
I have to say not to bad for a slump!! We had sausage with peppers and onions yesterday as well though without the bread and some mushrooms and tomatoes thrown in. Looks delish!
Cami @ Creating Myself
Oh boy, I have Emeril's Chicken & Apple sausages in the fridge right now. I see hoagies on the menu this weekend! ;o)
Linda
Sausage and pepper sandwiches...NY State Fair, Italian festivals in town. Those are the images I get when I think of the lovely aroma of these yummy sandwiches. I have gotten to making these with turkey hot Italian sausage and they are very good.
recipes2share
I don't think I would have any complaints either if you were to come and cook this for me!
Meg
My grandma and mom love Italian sausage. I will definitely have to pass this on to them!
Jessie
Oh, man. Can I have one of these for breakfast? Pretty please? Yum!
+Jessie
a.k.a. The Hungry Mouse
Barbara Bakes
It really is the little things like toasting the rolls that makes a good sandwich a great sandwich!
Debbie
I love Italian sausages. I don't make them often but always get them at fairs! I know what you mean about not knowing what to cook. I find myself with that dilemma often!!!
Robin Sue
Yup the rolls have to be tooasted. Just had Italian sausage last night- I can never get enough of that stuff! Great pictures, so colorful!
Cristine
Looks yummy! I love a good sausage sandwich!