These easy stuffed sausage and peppers are made by placing mozzarella cheese inside sweet Italian sausage and baking them over sautéed peppers and onions in a flavorful tomato sauce and provolone cheese until hot and bubbly.

Stuffed Sausage And Peppers

From the recipe collection of Tara Ippolito

These stuffed sausage and peppers are such a delicious and easy to make meal that the whole family is sure to love.

This recipe is such a fun spin on the traditional Italian dinner. Especially, with all of that ooey gooey cheese stuffed inside the sausages.

We grew up eating sausage and pepper dinners all the time as kids. My Mother used to make it for us over a nice big bowl of spaghetti or on a fresh club roll. Shes even served this to us over some white rice on occasion.

It's a recipe that I've been making myself for as long as I can remember, too. However, I only started doing it this way a few years ago. I had seem this done on social media and knew immediately that I needed to give this version a try.

What a huge hit it was right off the bat! My whole family loved it so much that we wound up making it a part of our monthly dinner menu rotation.

Usually we made this recipe with sweet Italian sausage. That was it isnt too spicy for my kids to enjoy but you can absolutely make this using spicy sausage, too. Or even do a mix of sweet and spicy if you'd like.

Personally, I like a little heat but its great however you choose to make it. We've made it lots and lots of times and many different versions and everyones always very happy with any one of them.

This is a delicious, easy to make dinner thats perfect for a busy weeknight.

I hope you give this recipe a try. If you do, I know you'll love it just as much as my family and I do.

Stuffed Sausage And Peppers Variations

I like this recipe for sausage and peppers made just the way it is, but here are some ways to change it up if you'd like to.

• Sausage- Use hot or sweet Italian Sausage. They both work wonderfully here.
• Sauce- Try a homemade tomato sauce or jarred if you prefer. I have a very easy and delicious recipe for Italian Tomato Sauce that you can access by clicking HERE.
• Vegetables- Try to use different color bell peppers to add a little color the dish. Sliced mushrooms are also a great addition, too,

Other Italian Dinner Recipes

If you like quick and easy Italian dinners like this one, here are some others that I know you'll love, too.

• The best vodka sauce
• Classic chicken cutlets
• One pot creamy broccoli pasta
• Creamy pancetta and peas pasta

Stuffed sausage and peppers ingredients

• Italian Sausage (sweet or hot)
• Mozzarella Cheese Sticks
• Onion, sliced thin
• Bell Peppers, sliced thin
• Garlic, minced
• Marinara Sauce
• Provolone Cheese
• Olive Oil
• Salt & Pepper to taste

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

First, add some tomato sauce to the bottom of a 9x13" inch baking dish.

Now, saute the sliced peppers and onion in a little olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

Then, once the vegetables are soft, add the minced garlic and continue to cook them for another 1-2 minutes.

Then, add the sauted peppers and onions to the baking dish and spread them out evenly on top of the sauce.

Next, slice the middle of the sausage long ways but not completely through and add either a whole mozzarella cheese stick or half (depending on how big the sausage you're using is) to the center of the sausage.

Then, wrap the sausage closed around the mozzarella stick and place them on top of the bed of sausage and peppers seam side up.

Next, drizzle the top with a little more sauce and cover the sausages with provolone cheese.

Now, cover the baking dish with foil and bake at 400° for 45 minutes or until the sausage is cooked all the way through.

Finally, serve hot over pasta, rice, in a roll or solo and enjoy.