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Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified

Sausage and peppers roll

Brown the sausages whole, then slice. Peppers and onions cooked twenty minutes until they collapse, not five until they soften.

The sheet · 2 rolls · 25 min

easy

Why tonight. Brown the sausages whole, then slice. Peppers and onions cooked twenty minutes until they collapse, not five until they soften.

What it needs

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  • sausage
  • bell pepper
  • onion
  • bread

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: oregano.

Method

  1. Brown the sausages whole first, then take them out and slice them. Sliced first, they lose their fat and go dry.
  2. Peppers and onions into the sausage fat, cooked long and slow until they collapse and sweeten. Twenty minutes, not five.
  3. Sausage back in at the end with oregano to finish through.
  4. Toast the cut faces of the roll in the pan. Untoasted bread under this much oil goes through in a minute.

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Published minimum internal temperaturesGround beef, pork, lamb and veal: 71°C, 160°F.Ground beef, pork, lamb and veal71°C / 160°F40°C50°C60°C70°C80°C

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What the ingredients are actually doing

sausage
Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
bell pepper
Sweetness and water. Raw it is crunch, blistered under a broiler it goes silky and smoky and stops tasting like a salad bar — that char is most of the reason to buy them.
onion
The base under most of this library.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.

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