Street Fair Italian Sausage Biscuits

Anyone in NYC that has ever been to the street fairs (you know the ones with the cheap sunglasses, sheets and t-shirts) has probably tasted the Sausage and Peppers they make there.  In short: Amazing!  I took a standing recipe for pizza cupcakes and tweaked it some to be more of a biscuit and slipped in some sausage.

Ingredients:

cupcake liners
1 1/2 cups flour
2 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 cup mini pepperonis 
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
+ 1/2 green bell pepper diced
+ 1/2 yellow bell pepper
+ 1/2 vidalia onion
+ 1/3 lb italian sausage removed from casings
+ 2 tablespoons olive oil

Preheat oven to 400°

Line a cupcake pan with liners (or lay them out on a cookie sheet).

Heat a large skillet on Medium heat and add olive oil.  When it smokes add the sausage and brown for 5 minutes, breaking it up with a wooden spoon.  Add peppers and onions and continue to break up and brown the sausage, scraping up the goodness on the bottom of the skillet.  When the onions become translucent and liquid has filled your pan, add the vinegar.  Lower heat and allow to cook off the moisture/liquid.  When "cooked off" add to a plate with paper towels to soak up unwanted grease.

Mix the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a large bowl. Add the (Veg) oil, egg and milk.  Stir until the batter becomes smooth.  Sticky, but smooth.  Fold in about 2/3 of the of the sausage and pepper mixture. 

Fill the cups about 2/3 full and put in the oven for about 18 minutes.  Top with a little more sausage/pepper crumbs for effect if you like.

Notes:

One of my staple meals at home is sausage and peppers, but the real way--with links and slices of the peppers and onion.  So good--but for the sake of making a muffin filling, I diced everything up while keeping the essence.


Tweaks:

I took some of the oil and the sugar out of the recipe to make for a drier, more bicuity taste and texture.
I removed the pepperoni and cheese and replaced with a dicey (see what I did there?)sausage and peppers recipe that I do.

Verdict: Success

This recipe is deemed Neighbor-worthy.

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