No tailgate is complete without some sort of
sausage, whether it be a bratwurst, a Polish, or an Italian
sausage.
The key to great sausage is pre-cooking, no matter
what kind you are making. Without pre-cooking, you may burn your
sausages in an effort to cook them through. Follow these simple steps for
great Italian Sausage, both sweet and hot!!
Time Required: 1 hour
Skill Required: Minimal cooking
skills needed
Ingredients:
Italian Sausage, either sweet or hot
For either, you need garlic, salt, and pepper
For hot, you will also need cayenne pepper and Tabasco Sauce
On
the day of the game, you need butter, garlic, salt, and pepper,
plus one green pepper, one red pepper, and one onion for every
12 sausages, plus a can of pizza sauce
Steps:
Boil a pot of enough water to cover your sausage. If
cooking both sweet and hot, you need two pots since you will
cook them separately.
Add salt, pepper, and garlic. Add a beer or two if you want as
well.
If
using hot sausage, add Tabasco Sauce and Cayenne Pepper.
When the water is boiling, add your
sausage.
Boil until cooked through. This
should take less than ten minutes. If you aren't
sure if its done, cut a slice into one of the
sausages and check.
Cut your peppers and onions into
slices about 1.5 inches long, and bring them, plus
the butter and your sausage, to the tailgate.
Also bring a small pan, or an aluminum foil pan, to
cook the peppers in.
Once
at the tailgate, add the peppers and onions, plus salt, pepper,
garlic, and butter, to the pan. Put the pan on the grill,
and stir occasionally to prevent burning.
Remove
the paper from the pizza sauce and put the can on the grill.
Stir occasionally so it heats evenly.
Grill
your sausages until they are crisp on the outside; don't
overcook them, remember they are already cooked through.
Serve
on a sub roll with peppers, onions, and pizza sauce!
You can also vary this recipe to include hot peppers
in your P & O mix.
