Sausage and Rice Casserole

This Italian Sausage and Rice Casserole with Peppers is a returned-on-song, one-pan plan form of meal. It’s healthy food you gained’t be unhappy to eat, weeknight rapid, and leaves you with best one dish to clean on the cease. Lean protein? check! veggies? Yep! entire grains? Uh huh. the crowd’s all here.

On my totem pole of residence chores, washing dishes is at the very bottom, above most effective snow shoveling (brrr) and vacuuming the basement storage room (ewww). for this reason, I’m always seeking out creative ways to cram an entire meal right into a single pan. This Italian Sausage and Rice Casserole is a high example.

All you need to make this Italian sausage recipe is a knife, a reducing board, a wooden spoon, and one robust skillet. in reality, even if our dishwasher were running the night time I made it, I wouldn’t have even bothered to apply it.

INGREDIENTS

•  1 red bell pepper — cored and 1/2-inch diced (about 1 cup)
•  1 orange or yellow bell pepper — cored and 1/2-inch diced (about 1 cup)
•  1 small or 1/2 large yellow onion — 1/4-inch diced (about 1 cup)
•  12 ounces cooked Italian chicken sausage links — not breakfast sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices*
•  1 cup instant brown rice*
•  2 cloves garlic — minced
•  Pinch red pepper flakes — optional
•  1 15-ounce can fire-roasted tomatoes in their juices
•  Chopped fresh parsley — optional for serving
•  1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
•  1/4 teaspoon black pepper
•  1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
•  1 teaspoon dried basil
•  2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil — divided

INSTRUCTIONS

1. warmth 1 tablespoon olive oil in a big nonstick skillet with a good-becoming lid over medium-excessive heat. upload the sausage slices and cook for a few minutes on every facet, until brown, about 5 to eight minutes total. dispose of to a plate, blot with paper towels to get rid of any excess oil, and set aside. (Tip: to finish this meal in half-hour, prep the peppers and onions while the sausage browns.)
2. With a paper towel, cautiously wipe the skillet until it is often easy. heat the remaining tablespoon olive oil over medium high. upload the bell peppers, onion, basil, salt, and pepper and prepare dinner till the onion starts to melt and brown, approximately 3 mins. upload the rice, garlic, and pink pepper flakes, stirring to coat the rice. prepare dinner till aromatic, approximately 30 seconds. add the bird stock and canned tomatoes of their juices, stirring well. carry to a boil, stir again, then cover and simmer on low warmness for five minutes.
3. Stir in the reserved sausage slices till evenly disbursed, then re-cowl the skillet and get rid of from the warmth. permit stand 5 minutes, until maximum of the final liquid is absorbed and the rice is smooth. Sprinkle with parsley and serve warm