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.
Peter M says
I do get stumped with what to eat, despite having so many good blogs and bookmarked recipes to try.
Italian sausage and pork usually works for me.
Kevin says
Now that is a tasty looking sandwich!
Bellini Valli says
I find if I don't know what to make for supper I go blogging:D Of course that strategt wouldn't work on the way home from work.
Katy says
Every now and again, a sausage sandwich is just the right thing to have. Yours looks yummy!
noble pig says
Oh yeah...love these. I think vinegar would be the perfect addition. Nice!
Debbie says
mmmm....love these sandwiches! And you are right, we do have to get our husbands out of the box every once in a while. If left up to them, it would be meat and potatoes, potatoes and meat.
Knitty says
I am so glad I wandered into your blog! I plan to come back and get inspired whenever I am in the what-to-fix-for-dinner rut.
I have an unrelated question: what template are you using for your blog? It looks very nice.
Olga says
Those look really great! I love red peppers.
pigpigscorner says
I always think of sausages when I can't think of anything to eat. Delicious!
Gabe's Girl says
That is an exquisite on-the-fly sandwich. I get in slumps all the time. This new "theme night" is working amazingly well. Hope all is well over there with you and your family.
Mari at Once Upon a Plate says
Shelby, Oooh everything looks perfect.
I always add a bit of vinegar too. Love how the red pepper & onions add such a nice contrast to the sausage (I think they are my favorite part of the sandwich!) 🙂
Yes! I can empathize about "what to make for dinner?", too. xo~m.
Linda says
Hi Shelby...thanks for the comment on the rum cake...rum sauce on apple dumplings. That sounds awesome! Thanks for that tip!
duodishes says
Time for lunch!