What's the best (and easiest) way to prepare Italian sausage?!
Answers: if it helps, it's the hot/spicy kind
If it is link form, then brown each side for about 2 minutes on medium heat. Next, add a about a half cup of liquid to the pan (preferably beer, but stock or water will do in a pinch). Cover the pan and continue cooking for 7-10 minutes.
If it is ground, then simply cook it in a skillet on medium heat as you would ground hamburger meat. With pork sausage, there is really no need to add oil since the fat will cook out and coat the pan. For a flavor kick, you can add diced onion or bell pepper.
Good luck!
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Bake on a cookie sheet with olive oil poured on top, then put into your recipe. It keeps all the grease from getting in your food. Use them in spaghetti sauce or served on the side with pasta. Here are the most delicious looking Italian sausages dishes for some ideas! http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im...
Make soup,
1/2 pound Italian sausage
1 Medium onion, peeled and cut into chunks
1 Small fennel bulbs, fennel fronds removed, cored, and thinly sliced
1 cloves Garlic, minced
1/8 teaspoon Fennel seed
Soup:
4 cups Low sodium chicken broth
1 (14-ounce) can Italian plum tomatoes and their juice
1 cup Uncooked small pasta
1 (14-ounce) can Canellinni beans, drained and rinsed
1/2 cup Loosely packed, roughly chopped Italian parsley leaves
Coarse ground salt and cracked pepper
Remove the sausage from the casing. Place in a large soup pot or Dutch oven. Turn heat to medium, cook, stirring constantly until browned, about 5 to 7 minutes. Drain on paper towels to remove excess fat. Add onions, fennel, garlic and fennel seeds, toss to combine. Cover and cook, stirring every few minutes until fennel and onions begin to soften, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Add chicken broth and tomatoes to the remaining sausage/fennel mixture. Break tomatoes apart with spoon. Bring to a boil, add pasta. Bring back to boil again, reduce to a strong simmer. Cook 8 minutes or until pasta is almost done. Add cannelinni beans and parsley. Cook until flavors have come together and pasta is cooked through. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
OHHHH.... I PUT IT IT SPAGHETTI SAUCE,
I GRILL IT ON THE GRILL OR FOREMAN GRILL OR FRY IT WITH SAUTEED GREEN OR RED PEPPERS, ONIONS AND PUT IN ON A HOAGIE ROLL WITH FRENCHS YELLOW MUSTARD....
I BAKE IT IN THE OVEN WITH SLICED CARROTS AND SLICED POTATO
PUT IT IN AN OMELETTE
DICE IT UP, SAUTE WITH ONION, MUSHROOM, RED, GREEN PEPPER, ADD A JAR OF SPAGETTI SAUCE IT IS CALLED PIZZIOLA SERVE IT OVER YOUR FAVORITE PASTA!!!!
Brown it like ground beef, drain off fat, and use it in pasta sauce or baked pasta & cheese dishes. (remove the casing, if that's how you bought it)
(stuffed in manicotti with cheese, or in lasagna, for example.)
Its also good cooked on the grill & served on a bun, or sliced & sauteed with peppers & onions & served on buns or over pasta.
I love italian sausage in spaghetti sauce. Remove the casings and brown in a dutch oven/ large cookpot over med/low heat. Add onions and bell peppers, finely chopped carrots if you want. Cut into the sausage and make sure there’s no pink. Then add jarred sauce and simmer for at least 30 mins (an hour is perfect).
If it is in the casing, place sausages in a frying pan and cover half way with water. Bring water to a simmer and cook sausages turning every 15 minutes or so until all the water is boiled away. Once the water is gone continue cooking sausages, turning, until brown on all sides. Eat on a roll with sauteed onions and peppers or slice and put into spaghetti sauce.
If the sausage is bulk, brown in a frying pan like you would hamburger.
If it's shaped like links, grill them on the grill and serve on a bun with peppers, onions, and dijon mustard. If it's the gorund type, throw it in with some beef in a big pot of spaghetti.
ITALIAN SAUSAGE SOUP
1 lb. ground Italian sausage
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced
3 leaves fresh basil
1 can 15 oz. butter beans
1 can 15 oz. black beans
(beans may be substituted with beans of your choice)
1 can 15 oz. diced tomatoes
2 cups beef broth
grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
Cook sausage until brown, add garlic and basil. Sauté 4 minutes.
Add remaining ingredients: beans, tomato, broth.
Cover and simmer 10-15 minutes, then remove from heat.
Serve in soup bowl; sprinkle with cheese and serve with Italian bread, garlic bread or panini bread.