Crock Pot Italian Sausage Sandwich Recipe with Sauce -

Crock Pot Italian Sausage Sandwich Recipe with Sauce

Italian sausages cooked until tender in tomato sauce with peppers and onions on hoagie rolls to create the best Italian sausage sandwiches ever!

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Prep Time 12

Cook Time 10

Servings: 8 people

45-67 oz jar pre-made pasta sauce or marinara sauce Use a brand that does not have a lot of olive oil in the sauce. The sausages let out a lot of fat and if the sauce already has oil in it the recipe becomes too oily.
5-6oz. can tomato paste
8 links Italian sausage - Spicy or sweet depending on your preference
2 whole thinly sliced Sweet bell peppers green bell peppers, red peppers, orange peppers, garden sweet Italian peppers and yellow peppers work well in this recipe
1 large Onion - You can use any onion including red onion in this recipe thinly sliced
3 large Garlic Cloves minced
1 tablespoon Dried oregano or 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
8 Hoagie buns You could also use french bread rolls, or hot dog buns
Optional: Red pepper flakes for extra spice

In a crock pot mix together all of the sauce ingredients.
Then add the garlic, peppers, and onions and stir until coated with the sauce.
If you want to reduce the fat content of the sausages you can boil them for about 3 minutes in water before placing them into the crockpot with the sauce.
Nestle the sausages into the crockpot and spoon some of the sauce and peppers and onions over the sausages so that they are covered.
Cook on low for 10 hours. The casing of the sausages should be very soft and the peppers and onions should be broken down and almost a part of the sauce.
Serve on hoagie buns or over pasta or rice.

This recipe is extremely flexible. You can halve or double the recipe very easily!