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Sausage and Peppers with Cheesy Rice
February 7, 2016 by Judith Hanneman
If you have leftover rice, this sausage and peppers one-skillet dinner may be the perfect answer for your dinner–in 15 minutes!
Ever wonder what to do with that big tub of leftover white rice from Chinese take-out? Did you over-estimate servings and have your own rice leftover? Here’s a solution and a tasty one-skillet dinner to boot!
The truth is, I love dinners such as this. First, it cooks all in one pan so there’s little clean up involved. Secondly, it takes a rather bland ingredient and makes it highly tasty.
In this, I used fully cooked Italian chicken sausage. My store had these chicken sausages on sale last week and I picked up…
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