Bread is one of the most popular ingredients or food items that is used in breakfast meals worldwide. There are many ways to eat bread for breakfast: toast, sandwiches, egg nests, bread and butter, and there are so many interesting bread recipe that we can try. Here is an interesting way to prepare a quick and easy breakfast dish in the form of a tasty sausage bread recipe.
Ingredients:
– 500 grams Italian sausage
– 1 loaf Italian bread
– 1 beefsteak tomato
– 1 cup bell peppers, cut in strips
– 4 cups mozzarella cheese (sliced or grated)
– 1/4 cup sliced green olives
– 1/4 cup sliced black olives
– 1/2 cup olive oil
– 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
– 1/4 tablespoon dried oregano
– 1/4 tablespoon dried basil
– 1 pinch salt
– 1 pinch ground black pepper
– 2 tablespoons diced onion
– 1 tablespoon fresh garlic (chopped)
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
- Lightly roast the bell pepper strips in a pan and set aside.
- Crumble the sausage and put it in a saucepan over low heat. Let it cook until completely browned. Remove from heat, drain and set aside.
- Cut the bread loaf length-wise and place the two halves on a baking sheet crust side down.
- Divide the cooked sausage in two parts and spread each part on one half of the bread evenly.
- Arrange mozzarella cheese on top of the spread sausage and top each half of the bread with sliced beefsteak tomato and roasted bell pepper strips.
- Arrange black and green olives on top.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 10 minutes.
- In the meantime, take a bowl and mix the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dried oregano, dried basil, diced onion, salt, pepper and chopped garlic.
- Drizzle over the baked bread halves and bake again for 2 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and cut in slices to serve.
Variation:
If you have some time then you can use Italian bread dough to prepare the bread.
Method:
- Let the dough thaw out completely before using.
- Dust a little flour on a plain surface and roll out the dough lightly using your hands or a rolling pin to the desired size. The dough should be of 1/4-inch thickness.
- Prepare the filling by browning the sausages as mentioned earlier.
- Add the roasted bell peppers, onion, dried oregano, dried basil, sliced tomatoes, grated cheese, salt, pepper and garlic, and mix well.
- Add about 2 tablespoons of olive oil, just enough to bind the ingredients.
- Spread the ingredients on the rolled out dough in the center and cover from all sides in a long sausage shape.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees C for 30-35 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and cut in slices to serve.
