Sweet Italian sausage cooked with colorful bell peppers and onions with Marinara sauce is great with eggs, on sandwiches, or as is! A tasty and easy 30 minute skillet meal or an even easier sheet pan meal!

No respectable Italian-American home would be without a version of sausage, peppers and onions. My mom cooked Italian sausage and peppers with sauce and served it on crusty Italian rolls for dinner. It made a hearty sandwich and meal!
Nothing transports me back to my childhood like my mom?s meatballs, zucchini bread, or carrot cake, but the smell of sausage and peppers cooking in a skillet takes me back, too.

Italian Sausage, Peppers and Onions
This easy dish of sausage, peppers and onions with sauce can be cooked two ways: in a skillet on the stove or on a sheet pan (rimmed baking sheet) in the oven on a sheet pan. (400 for 40 minutes). Although Italian sausage is traditional, you can use any kind of flavorful sausage. I?ve used turkey sausage and several varieties of Aidell?s sausage to change things up and sometimes I add mushrooms.

Traditional Skillet Method: To cook in a skillet cook the sliced sausage until browned, remove the sausage, then cook the peppers and onions. I slice the onions and peppers while the sausage cooks. This is my favorite way. (See below on how cut a bell pepper quickly.)
When the peppers and onions have softened, I add the sausage back to the pan then add Rao?s Marinara sauce – it?s the lowest in carbs that I have found and has a wond...