Sunday Cooking - Sausage and Peppers

This is one of our BOGO meals! BOGO usually means Buy One Get One, in this cause if you have all the ingredients for one dish we will show you how you can make two dishes out of them!

What you will need for this recipe is:

1 Onion

Mushrooms ( we used baby portabellas)

2 Peppers (doubled; we used four: Red, Green, Yellow and Orange, any colour is fine)

2 Cloves of Garlic

1 TBSP of Worcestershire Sauce

Sausages (we used kielbasa, any sausage works fine, pre-cooked works quicker)

Tarragon

Salt and Pepper

Shallots

Red Wine

The first steps to this recipe depend on the sausage you use. If you use completely raw sausage you will want to start cooking that first. If you have a pre-cooked sausage, you will want to start with the vegetables.

Completely raw sausage should be started in a separate pan, you can leave them whole or cut them up doesn't matter just yet. (This can happen at the same time the vegetables are cooking.)

Start by slicing the onion (peal onion, cut in half down the middle and make slices), chopping the peppers (you can slice these as well but in this case a bite-size chop works fine). You also want to dice the garlic (the last thing you want is large pieces of garlic in your meal). You will want to put all these into a non-stick frying pan on medium-high heat.

Next, you want to slice the sausage into coin sized rounds (medallions). If they are pre-cooked they will take a little less time so you want to wait to add them to the frying pan until the vegetables are almost done cooking (ten to fifteen minutes into the cooking process).

Once everything is in the same pan you will add some Tarragon. If you cooked your sausage in a different pan you will want to add shallots (2), and red wine to deglaze the pan (to get all the residual flavour from the pan, make sure to drain if there is too much grease from the sausages). Add a slurry (equal parts water and flour), and Worcestershire sauce and stir to create a glaze for the meal.

Serve with your favourite side of potatoes or rice.

BOGO

Here is recipe number two! The only thing we are adding to the recipe above is buns, and this can be any buns you have, bread even works fine, sub buns work beats, but whatever you have is just fine.

The process is the exact same, except when the meal is done you want to add your buttered bread or bun into the frying pan to heat. How long you leave it there is up to you, if you just want to warm the bun it is a few seconds, if you want it toasted like a grilled cheese it will be longer.

NOTE: If you have long buns, like sub buns or large hot dog buns, you can cook your sausages whole instead of cutting them (this will cause the sausages to cook slower).