Tonight I cooked Eric’s venison sausage with onions and orange and yellow bell peppers for dinner. I served the sausage and peppers over parmesan polenta. It was so yummy and satisfying!
Venison Sausage Links
Here we have the raw venison sausage links. The butcher in East Arlington, Riverside Custom Butchery, carved up Eric’s deer.
Cooking the Venison Sausage, Peppers and Onions
I find that bell peppers always take longer than onions to cook, so I added my sliced bell peppers to my frying pan first and sautéd those for a few minutes before I tossed in the onions. After a few more minutes, I placed the sausage links on the peppers and onions and covered the sauté pan with a lid so that everything steamed for a little while. When the sausages were cooked on the outside, I removed the lid from the pan and seared the casings. I finished the sausage by slicing it and then crisping the slices in the frying pan.
Cooking the Polenta
Meanwhile, I boiled the polenta. I used a recipe from the Everyday Food cookbook that calls for cooking 3/4 of a cup of polenta in four cups of water seasoned with salt and pepper. I whisked a tablespoon of butter and some grated parmesan cheese into the polenta when it was finished.
Dinner Is Served
Not the greatest presentation, I admit, but the sausage, onions and peppers were sooo tasty! The polenta would have benefitted from more cheese, but it was still good.
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