Ingredients
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- 6 – 8 links of sweet, mild Italian sausages (or if you can find it, Italian turkey sausage)
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 8 – 10 cloves of garlic, sliced into slivers, not minced or pressed
- 1 lb. crimini or baby portabello mushrooms, cleaned with a cloth, stem ends trimmed, and sliced
- 2 large yellow onions, cut in half and then sliced
- 2 green peppers, cored, seeded, and sliced into 1/2? wide strips
- 2 red peppers, cored, seeded, and sliced into 1/2 ” wide strips
- 1 yellow pepper, cored, seeded, and sliced into 1/2? wide strips
- 1 8 – 15 oz. can of crushed tomatoes
- 2 Tbsp. tomato paste (to thicken the sauce; add more if you like it much thicker)
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/2 cup fresh basil, chopped
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup Marsala or red wine (optional)
- 2 pinches crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
- Freshly ground sea salt and black pepper to taste
- Italian submarine/hoagie buns
- butter
- garlic powder
Instructions
- Instructions
- Poke the sausages all over with a fork.
- In a large, deep, heavy skillet, pour in the extra virgin olive oil, heat on medium heat.
- Place the sausages in and cook until fairly brown.
- Add the garlic to the sausages when they are not fully cooked, but fairly golden brown, so that the garlic does not burn from cooking too long.
- Place the sausages into a large (13 x 9?) baking dish, draining the oil to stay in the skillet.
- Place the sausages in a pre-heated 400 degree oven to stay warm while cooking the peppers and onions.
- Add the sliced onions to the hot left-over olive oil in the skillet.
- Cook onions until browned and caramelized, but still crunchy, 6 minutes.
- Add mushrooms to the cooked onions until browned and caramelized, 6 minutes.
- Add the cooked onions and mushrooms to the sausages in the oven, draining the oil from them to be left in the skillet to saute’ the peppers.
- Add more olive oil to the pan if there is not enough.
- Add all of the peppers and saute’ 6 minutes; keep them at a nice level of crunchiness, not wilted or soft.
- Remove the sausages, onion, and mushrooms from the oven.
- Add the peppers to the sausage, onions, and mushrooms to the sausage mixture.
- Add the oregano, basil and red pepper flakes; blend well
- Add tomato sauce and wine at this point and carefully blend together.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Return to the 400 degree oven and bake uncovered for 20 minutes.
- While baking, melt a stick of butter.
- Add garlic powder to the melted butter to your preference level, about a Tablespoon.
- Blend well.
- With a pastry brush, thoroughly and heavily brush on the garlic butter on both sides of the hoagie/submarine buns.
- After the sausage, peppers, and onions are done baking, turn on the BROILER.
- Place the buns under the broiler for about 2 – 3 minutes and watch them so they do not burn!
- When golden brown, remove from the oven.
- Place a sausage on each bun and smother with the peppers, mushrooms, and onions!