Papa Felico's Garlic Sausage Bread

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"This delicious garlic and sausage bread is good for an old-fashioned, Italian family sit-down."

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PREP TIME	25 Min
COOK TIME	15 Min
READY IN	40 Min

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INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

1 pound bulk hot Italian sausage
1 loaf Italian bread, cut in half lengthwise
1 beefsteak tomato, sliced
1 cup roasted red bell pepper strips
1 (8 ounce) package mozzarella cheese, sliced
1/4 cup sliced green olives
1/4 cup sliced black olives
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 tablespoon dried basil
1 pinch salt
1 pinch ground black pepper
2 tablespoons diced red onion
1 tablespoon chopped garlic

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Crumble the sausage into a saucepan over low heat; cover and cook until sausage is completely browned, stirring every 30 seconds; drain.
Place the bread on a baking sheet with the crust sides down. Arrange the cooked sausage evenly over both halves of bread. Top each with tomato slices, red bell pepper strips, mozzarella slices, green olives, and black olives.
Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes.
Whisk together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, oregano, basil, salt, pepper, onion, and garlic in a bowl. Drizzle over baked bread halves.
Bake another 5 minutes. Cut into 2 inch slices to serve.

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Reviewed on May 24, 2008 by lorena

Oh my goodness, this is amazingly good!!! i'm giving this five stars despite the fact that i... MORE

Reviewed on Jul. 11, 2008 by VIVNIDHI

A hit!! I made it using boca burger. This is so good, thanks a lot for the recipe. I had no... MORE

Reviewed on Mar. 14, 2008 by pomplemousse

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pomplemousse
Mar. 14, 2008

I really like this. Very simple to prepare and delicious. Also very filling. I was going to eat this with salad, but the salad is on the bread! I was a bit flaky when I shopped for the ingredients, as I ended up with fresh mozzarella instead of slices and regular sausage instead of hot. I also ended up with green olives with pimentos, and looking back at the recipe, I suppose it calls for just green olives. Anyway, I really like the combo of flavors in this and am already thinking about how to make it less messy. It's kind of like an overtopped pizza or overstuffed sandwich--you can eat it with your fingers, but everything keeps falling off. I like everything on this bread, and I think you really have to, because there are a lot of strong flavors! I like how it all goes together, and I think that it would be wonderful to sub tapenade for the olives and toast the bread first so that you could put the tapenade, the olive oil and balsamic sauce, then the sausage and the remainder of the ingredients. I think it might make it a bit less messy and manageable. Of course, part of it was my fault since I used fresh mozzarella and sliced it thicker than what purchased slices would be. Still, the bread had a nice crunch on the bottom and I liked all the flavors together. I tossed on some diced orange bell pepper I had to use it up.

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I really like this. Very simple to prepare and delicious. Also very filling. I was going to... MORE