Italian Sausage Marinara Sauce

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound Italian sausage links
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup onion, chopped
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1 (14 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
2 tablespoons water
1/4 teaspoon salt
another 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning

Directions

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and add the sausage links. The sausages I purchased had skin on them so I removed them first. Cook until nice and brown on all sides. Remove from pan and cut into small slices. Place them back in the pan and continue cooking until no longer pink. Drain and set aside.

In a medium sauce pan, saute the onion until translucent. Add the garlic and 1 1/2 teaspoons italian seasoning. Cook until tender. Add the crushed tomatoes, water, salt and remaining italian seasoning and simmer for about 15 minutes.

Combine sausage and sauce and cook until sausages are re-heated.

This sauce was awesome! I loved it! The only thing I might have done differently is cut the sausage even smaller than I did, or just brown it all together, like you would ground beef.

Dustin's grade: A
Erin's grade: A