Sheet-Pan Sausages and Peppers

One tray, one temperature, and a staggered start so nothing is either raw or leathery.

Prep
10m
Cook
35m
Total
45m
Serves
4
Effort
Easy
Scale
4
Units

Method

Sheet-Pan Sausages and Peppers — recipe grid
3 1 Toss and spread in a single layer 8m A single layer with gaps. Crowded vegetables steam and never brown. 2 Roast at 220°C / 425°F, adding the sausages after 10 minutes 35m The vegetables need a head start; the sausages would dry out over the full time.
2
500 g
3 tbsp
1 tsp
1 tsp
8
1 tbsp
a handful
Read left to right: ingredients merge into steps, and the rightmost cell is the last thing you do. Steps account for 43m of hands-on and cooking time.

Staggering, not compromise

Most one-tray dinners fail because everything goes in at once and the timings do not match. Potatoes want 35 minutes at this heat; sausages want 25. Adding the sausages ten minutes late costs nothing and means both are right.

Notes

  • One layer, and use the biggest tray you own. Two trays beats one crowded one.
  • Cut onions through the root so the wedges hold together.
  • The splash of vinegar at the end is what stops it tasting flat and oily.

Try butter, 30 minutes, braise, or an ingredient you need to use up.