Sausage Peppers and Potato Recipe
Doesn’t this pic of my Sausage, Peppers, and Potato Recipe look Yummy?
I seem to have the uncanny ability to take ingredients that need to be used up and create really tasty dishes! We had a cookout awhile back and my son demanded those all beef Kosher Hebrew National hot dogs. We had never purchased them before – but it’s what he wanted, so we got them for the cookout. We had a lot of people so I had purchased a big 32 pack of the all beef Polish sausage variety. We had a half dozen left, and this is what I did with them.
To make this recipe you will need these ingredients:
- 6 small-med potatoes (red, white, or gold)
- 1/2 lg Vidalia onion, sliced
- 1/2 lg green pepper, chopped
- 6 Hebrew National All Beef Polish Dogs sliced in 1″ pieces
- salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
- 2 cloves chopped garlic
I started by dicing the potatoes skin-on and placing them in a large skillet on high with about 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil. While they cooked, I sliced the onion and diced the green pepper. If you like, you could always chop and add a small hot pepper to mix as well! Add the onion and green pepper to the pan and mix well to coat with oil. Then slice the Polish dogs, add to the pan and mix well. Last add the garlic, and mix well.
Let me explain the order of things. I get the potatoes in the pan right away – they would take 20 minutes to cook alone, so I try to let them cook (by themselves) for 8-10 minutes before adding the pepper and onion. Turn the heat down to med-high and about 5 minutes later I’ve chopped the polish dogs, so I add them. I reserve the garlic until about 5 minutes more. Then it really only needs to cook a few more minutes and as long as the potatoes are soft.
Even though this dish looks really good in the pic above, the thing that really makes it incredible are those polish dogs. I’ve had LOTS of hot dogs and TONS of different sausages in my life, but I’d never had Hebrew National. Their all beef texture is distinctive, but the thing that sets them apart is that they appear to be packaged in vinegar – which gives them this bit of “pickled” flavor I just can’t describe, but couldn’t get enough of. It permeates the onion and pepper, and once it matches up with the garlic – it just made this very simple dish come alive! There were in fact more than one in the house making fun of it – but the finished taste was unmistakable! Once you try this, you may never buy regular polish dogs again!
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