This simple recipe for Sweet and Sour Sausages is loaded with veggies, Italian sausage and covered in a delicious sweet and sour sauce. This is perfect for a quick weeknight meal, or delicious as an appetizer.
This easy sweet and sour recipe is a simple go to for a quick meal. We love to eat this over rice or even noodles. Ready in under 20 minutes, which nobody can hate that!!
All this goodness can be made in ONE PAN!! Yay, less dishes!! That is my favorite way to cook!! Quick, simple ingredients and a quick clean up!! Life is too busy to be standing at the sink doing dishes….or maybe I just hate it!!
How to Make Sweet and Sour Sausage
To make this simple sweet and sour sausage recipe, start by cooking the sausage. Leave the sausage whole to begin the cooking process. They will be easier to slice into pieces if they have cooked through a little bit.
Cook the whole sausages for 5 minutes on each side. Remove from the pan and slice into one inch pieces.
Add the pineapple, peppers, celery, carrots and onion and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Place the sliced sausages back into the pan to finish cooking through with the vegetables.
While the vegetables and sausage continue to cook, mix together the sweet and sour ingredients. Pour into the pan and bring to a boil. Boil and stir for 5-7 minutes until the sauce has thickened.
How to serve Sweet and Sour Sausage with Vegetables
When I make this recipe for the fam, I like to serve over warm rice. This makes a quick dinner and all the bellies are full and satisfied.
Other ways to serve this are over rice noodles, in a lettuce wrap or even just on their own.
Ingredients for Sausages in Sweet and Sour Sauce
- mild Italian sausage, or you can choose a hotter sausage if you like it spicy
- yellow onion
- carrots, I like baby carrots for this recipe, they are the perfect size
- green pepper: or any other colored pepper
- pineapple tidbits or chunks
- celery
Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Sauce
- pineapple juice, reserved from can of tidbits
- lemon juice
- brown sugar
- soy sauce
- ginger
- cornstarch
Sweet and Sour Sausages
Ingredients
- 2 pounds Mild Italian Sausage
- 1 cup baby carrots
- 2 green bell peppers, sliced into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1 yellow onion, diced into one inch pieces
- 1 20 oz can pineapple tidbits, juices reserved
- 1 cup reserved pineapple juice
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/4 cup sliced green onions, green part only
Instructions
- In a large 12 inch skillet over medium high heat, brown the sausage 5 minutes on each side. Remove the sausage from the pan and slice into 1 inch pieces. Drain any grease from the pan.
- Add in the carrots, onion, green bell pepper, pineapple and sausages back to the pan.
- Cook and stir for 2-3 minutes, until vegetables become tender.
- While the vegetables and sausage are cooking, in a separate bowl combine the pineapple juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, soy sauce, ginger and cornstarch.
- Pour pineapple mixture over vegetables and sausage and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer for 7-10 minutes, until sweet and sour sauce thickens and sausages are cooked through.
- Garnish with green onions and serve over warm rice.
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This simple recipe for Sweet and Sour Sausages is loaded with veggies, Italian sausage and covered in a delicious sweet and sour sauce. This is perfect for a quick weeknight meal, or delicious as an appetizer.
DJ Abel
I like to add Bonless Skinless Chicken Thighs to this recipe, that brings my husband into it as well. he’s a big Chicken Fan, no so much sausage.
Feeding Your Fam
That is a great tip! Thanks so much for commenting, I will have to give that a try!