Chicken Sausage, Pepper And Onion Subs

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 cooked chicken sausage, available at your meat counter (get a mediterranean flavor, such as pepper and onion or sundried tomato and basil)
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
• 1/3 cup chicken stock or 1/3 cup dry wine, a generous douse
• 1 cubanelle pepper, seeded and sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced
• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, chopped
• salt and pepper
• 1 cup giardiniera (italian pickled vegetable salad ( hot peppers, cauliflower, carrots and celery mix available in jar)
• 1/4 cup flat-leaf italian parsley
• 1/2 cup fresh basil (10 leaves)
• 1/2 lemon, zest of (2 teaspoons)
• 4 crusty hoagie rolls, split

Recipe

• 1 prick sausages with a fork. place chicken sausages in a large skillet and add 1 inch of water. add 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil to the skillet, 1 turn of the pan. bring water to a boil, then reduce heat a little. allow all the liquid to cook away, then brown and crisp the casings, 5 to 6 minutes. deglaze the pan with stock or wine and cook it off, 1 minute. remove sausages to a platter.
• 2 while sausage cooks, slice the peppers and onions and prepare the garlic. once the chicken sausage comes out of the pan, add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan. add veggies and garlic, season with salt and pepper and cook 10 minutes.
• 3 place the giardiniera, parsley, basil and lemon zest in the food processor and grind into a relish.
• 4 slice sausages on an angle. fill each roll with a little relish, then peppers and onions then the sliced sausages.