Vegetable Medley with Pepperoni and Italian Sausage
This recipe is a great way to get lots of garden vegetables into one recipe, yet to have all those other tasty ingredients that are so hard to resist. It is full of fiber, healthy carbs and protein.
Servings 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 head of cabbage
- 1 medium zucchini
- 1 yellow squash
- 1 onion
- 1 green pepper
- 1 can of tomatoes with green chilies
- ½ pound of pepperoni
- 1 pound of sweet Italian sausage
Instructions
- To remove some of the grease from the pepperoni, I put it on a napkin on top of a microwave oven dish.
- Microwave it for 1 minute and then pat the top of the pepperoni to get excess grease off it.
- Cook sausage in a skillet, at medium heat, until well done, approximately 15 minutes.
- Cool and cut into bite size pieces.
- Cut up the following: Onion, green pepper, yellow squash, and zucchini into bite size pieces.
- Cut cabbage into four pieces and remove the core from each piece.
- Cut each section into bite size pieces.
- Add cabbage to skillet and cook until it begins to turn transparent.
- When sausage is fully cooked, remove from skillet and add the onion, yellow and zucchini squash. Cook until tender.(optional - I add 2 teaspoons of sugar to the mixture of vegetables)
- When the vegetables are tender add the can of tomatoes with green chilies, stir and simmer for a few minutes.
- Add pepperoni and Italian sausage. Simmer for another 5 minutes.
Notes
Serve alone or with mashed potatoes and fresh light rolls.