Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions
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- Prep
- 15 min
- Bath
- 45 minutes
- Total
- 1 hr 15 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
Main Coursesausagepeppersskillet
Ingredients
- 3 lb fresh uncooked ground-pork Italian sausage in natural casings
- 3 bell peppers, seeded and sliced
- 2 large onions, sliced
- 3 tbsp olive oil, divided
- 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp red-wine vinegar
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- Salt and black pepper
- 6 crusty rolls, for serving
Method
Prepare
- Check the sausage labels and keep every casing intact. Follow the guide’s single-layer bagging method without adding liquid or crushing the links.
- Slice the peppers, onions, and garlic on a clean board away from the raw sausage. Keep a clean serving plate and utensils ready.
Cook
- Set the water bath to 160°F.
- Use 3 pounds of package-labeled uncooked fresh ground-pork Italian sausage in intact natural casings. The source gives no link diameter limit; every link must be large enough for a reliable fine-tip thermometer reading. Poultry sausages, mixed-meat links, skinless sausage, cured products, and precooked links need separate methods. Use fully thawed, refrigerator-cold links. Keep the casings intact and seal in one layer with space between links, using gentle pressure so they are not crushed. Add no beer or other liquid. Fully submerge the sealed bags in a verified, preheated circulating bath with water space around every bag. Start timing at immersion and complete the full listed time without interruption. The listed time covers the bath stage. Allow additional time for the thermometer check, any hotter cooking, and finishing. Insert a fine-tip thermometer from the side into the center of every link, keeping its full sensing area inside the meat. Every link must reach 160°F before the browning finish. Continue cooking in a skillet or oven and recheck any cooler link. The bath setting, elapsed time, casing color, texture, and a rest do not replace this check. Use clean utensils and discard all pouch liquid. Keep cooked food away from raw food, used bags, and utensils used for raw food. Dry the intact links, brown gently in a skillet with a little oil, and serve immediately. These methods cover immediate service only, not frozen starts, chilling, storage, reheating, or holding. Do not split or slice links before the center check. The whole-cut pork temperature and rest do not apply to ground-pork sausage.
- Cook for 45 minutes if you are cooking 3 pounds of fresh uncooked ground-pork Italian sausage in natural casings, fully thawed and refrigerator-cold, with every link measurable using a fine-tip thermometer.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a broad skillet. Cook the onions and peppers over medium heat, stirring, until softened and lightly browned. Add the garlic and oregano and cook until fragrant. Stir in the vinegar and season to taste.
Check before finishing
- At the end of the bath, open the pouch and transfer each piece intact to a clean surface with clean utensils. Discard the pouch liquid and any sauce that touched raw food.
- Use a clean food thermometer. Insert a fine-tip thermometer from the side into the center of every link, keeping its full sensing area inside the meat.
- Every spot you check must reach 160°F. If any reading is lower, keep cooking with a method hot enough to reach this temperature and check each cooler spot again. Complete this check before finishing.
Finish
- After the center check, pat the links dry. Brown them gently in a clean skillet with the remaining oil, turning to color the casings.
- Toss the vegetables in their pan to warm them through. Split the rolls.
Serve
- Put the links and vegetables into the rolls and serve immediately. Cut links only after their center check and finish are complete.
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