How to Cook Italian Sausage in the Oven
on Oct 13, 2024, Updated Jun 03, 2025
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Cooking Italian sausage in the oven is hands-off, results in juicy, tender links, and there is very little cleanup involved.
Baking Italian sausage in the oven is the easiest way to cook a large amount of links without much attention required. No stovetop splattering, easy clean up, and the result is plump, tender sausages with a firm, snappy exterior and all of those great Italian seasonings. Your sausages are now ready to be dipped into mustard or marinara sauce, or tucked into a sandwich roll with some sautéed peppers and onions, or Peperanata.
Italian sausages take just about 20 minutes to cook in a preheated 400-degree oven. I like to cook them at a slightly higher temperature, but you can also cook them for about 25 minutes at 350, though the outside won’t brown up as much.
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Slice up the baked sausages and use them in pasta recipes like Sausage and Peppers Pasta with Tomato Sauce or Chicken Sausage Pasta. Or, serve the sausages with some simply cooked vegetables for a simple weeknight dinner.
If you want to peel off the skin and crumble the cooked sausages, you can do that as well. Crumbled sausage is great for adding to pastas, casseroles, soups, or stuffings like Bread Turkey Sausage Stuffing. Also, see How to Cook Italian Sausage in the Air Fryer!
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How to Bake Italian Sausages
This recipe works for all uncooked Italian sausages…sweet, mild, or hot. Use this method for pork sausages, turkey sausages, or chicken sausages.
- Prepare the oven and pan: Place the sausage links on the sheet pan. Leave a little room between them to brown up nicely.
- Bake the sausages: Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes, flipping them once halfway through cooking. Use an instant-read thermometer, if you have one, inserted into the very middle of the sausages to check that the internal temperature is at least 160 degrees.
- Serve hot.
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Oven-Baked Italian Sausage
Ingredients
- 4 Italian sausages
- Mustard (for serving; optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed sheet pan with foil or parchment paper.
- Place the sausage links on the sheet pan, leaving a little room between them to brown up nicely.
- Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes, flipping them once halfway through cooking. Use an instant-read thermometer inserted into the very middle of the sausages to check that the internal temp is at least 160 degrees. Serve hot.
It seems so simple, but I’m glad to have discovered this recipe with it’s tips.