Looking for a quick and easy meal? Learn how to bake Italian sausages for a simple, versatile sheet pan dinner! This recipe gives you not only a dish but many more. Starting with some simple steps, you can improvise and end up cooking lasagna, burritos, or pasta from the Italian sausages with peppers. However, you can always just stick to the main recipe and enjoy your hearty delicious dinner.
First of all, let’s learn what an Italian sausage exactly is. Therefore, in North America, Italian sausage (“salsiccia” in Italian) most often refers to a style of pork sausage. The main difference in Italian sausage when compared to other sausages is the seasoning. In addition, the particular ingredient that usually sets Italian sausage apart is fennel. This is a licorice-scented herb that gives Italian sausage its unique taste that is different than other types of sausage.
How To Bake Italian Sausages: EXPERIENCE & TIPS
Hi guys, I’m Sharon popping over from the What The Fork Food Blog. It’s my first time here as a contributor, and it’s nice to meet you! Today I want to show you how to bake Italian sausage and turn it into a sheet pan dinner! Sausage is always a hit in my house. We have it with spaghetti, for breakfast, in grinders, on pizza, in baked pasta, in soup, stuffed into olives, etc. Therefore, it never goes to waste.
I’ve been intrigued by all these sheet pan dinners I’ve been seeing on Pinterest – where everything is all thrown onto one baking pan and baked all at once for an easy dinner. So, after recently making a chicken sheet pan dinner, I was hooked. SO EASY! Only one pan to clean! Prep it, pop it in the oven, and take it out when it’s done! It seriously made me want to start turning all our meals into sheet pan dinners.
Italian Sausages Is a Versatile Recipe
I love this roasted sausage and peppers sheet pan meal for a few reasons. It’s a pretty simple meal itself, so you can pair it with a salad, and dinner is done. But wait! You can easily take this meal up a notch.
- Toss the roasted sausage and peppers with some olive oil and pasta for a more filling meal.
- Also, you can chop up the sausage and peppers and use it as a filling for lasagna. That will be a tasty lasagna with an Italian twist!
- Additionally, you can also chop the sausages and peppers and prepare some fine burritos.
- You can even just prep this whole pan and portion it out for easy (and delicious!) lunches during the week.
The versatility of this easy dish is what makes it sing. It’s one of those base recipes that can do it all and be whatever you want it to be. This amount of sausage in this recipe can also easily be doubled or tripled so you can make a few types of meals out of it. As a busy mom, recipes like that are stars in my house. Enjoy!
Italian Sausages in Oven With Peppers: RECIPE
All in all, here is the fantastic recipe that will most certainly blow your mind! It is insanely easy and quick! So, give it a try and tell me what you think about it.
Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
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- 1 pound Italian sausage
- 1 red pepper sliced
- 1 orange pepper sliced
- 1/2 large red onion chopped
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place the sausage, red pepper slices, orange pepper slices, and onion on a large sheet pan with sides. Drizzle with the Italian seasoning, olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Toss together and make sure everything is coated with the oil and seasonings.
- Spread the sausage and peppers out on the pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until the sausage is no longer pink in the middle.
- Optional: Place the sausage under the broiler for a minute or two after baking to brown the sausage and char the peppers a bit.
- Use enough olive oil to coat all of the vegetables and sausage. You may need to use a bit more depending on how much sausage you use and how big your peppers are.
- Use Italian seasoning to taste. If you’re eating the sausage and peppers as is, you may want to use a bit more. I usually use a little less because I’m adding the sausage and peppers to other dishes and I don’t want the Italian seasoning competing with other flavors I might be using.
Final Toughts
Finally, it’s your time to share your experience with this recipe and all your thoughts on it. So, tell me everything in the comments section: What do you think about Italian sausages and their particular flavor? Did you find it hard to learn how to bake Italian sausages? Did your kids enjoy this dish? Additionally, did you go for the main recipe or did you improvise? If so, what did you add and what was your final result?
Also, please, do not hesitate to ask any further questions on this topic in the comments too. I will make sure to answer you as soon as possible! Last but not least, if you are eager to find out more recipes that include Italian sausages, I got you! Try these three winners of mine for adding an Italian twist to your dishes!
Lala says
shouldn’t you poke the sausages with a fork so they don’t burst?
Nutmeg Nanny says
I LOVE baking italian sausage. Yum!
Angie | Big Bear's Wife says
I can see up making this a ton this summer!
[email protected] says
This looks and sounds fantastic. I always put them on the grill but we’ve been having so much rain lately, grilling has been out. This is a great idea.
Sharon says
One of my favorite easy meals to make!
[email protected] says
I love me some sausage & peppers…never thought to bake them, though! Yum!
Ryan says
Me either my air conditioning broke and didn’t want to stand in front of the stove last time I tried cooking sausage in the oven I fell asleep and burnt them for about 3 hours so I tried it when I wasn’t three sheets to the wind and they turned out absolutely wonderful I roasted red peppers first added green yellow and orange peppers with it and it was fantastic roasting Peppers first is the way to go with any dish
Jessica Segarra says
I do the same thing and add pierogis! Love it!
Kacey @ The Cookie Writer says
Love this method! Sausage is usually relatively cheap so it makes for a great one pan meal (we love ours over pasta!)
Sheila @ Life, Love, and Good says
I’m with you — I love easy meals and easy cleanup! And, Italian sausage is one of my favorites – thanks for sharing!