Frank Sinatra's Sausage and Green Peppers

yooper's Note:

Put on some of "Old Blue Eye's" albums while you prepare this...sip some vino as the dish bakes. Serve with crusty garlic bread, pasta, and more red wine!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 3 green bell peppers
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper
• 1 lb hot Italian sausage
• 1⁄3; cup red wine

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Remove stems and seeds from the green peppers and cut into large chunks.
3. In an ovenproof baking dish that can also be used on top of the stove, saute green peppers in the olive oil until they begin to soften.
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. Remove green peppers and set aside.
6. Brown sausage in the same dish, breaking up with a spoon.
7. When sausage is browned, add the red wine.
8. Cover with foil and bake about 40 minutes.
9. Uncover baking dish and add sauted green peppers.
10. Bake an additional 30 minutes.

Reviews

[Anna Skinner]

This was incredibly easy and very tasty! The only additions I made was to add a bit of marinara sauce and some melted mozzarella on to the bun at the last minute. Everyone in the house loved it!

[Baklava]

So awesome, but I'll tell you that I did change things quite a bit - starting with cooking this on the stove top, because summer in California is just too hot to turn the oven on! I added garlic cloves and onions to the peppers (red,green, and yellow) and cooked each separately, combined all with sausages, 1/2 c. white wine, and 1/2 c. cherry tomatoes and a tablespoon of worschestershire sauce. It was soooooo good. Thanks for a great recipe that allows for some additions. Can't wait to try this exact recipe in the fall.

[Cooks4_6]

I love a great sausage and peppers recipe and it is hard to find an oven baked one like my Grandfather did. I added a large sweet onion, and some diced tomatoes so it was more similar to my Nonno Grande's and this turned out perfectly. Served with a bit of pasta and a nice salad and, of course, a glass of red wine. Yum!