Hot Italian Sausage

Hot Italian Sausage.

Hot but not punishing — the heat builds slow, the way an Italian grandmother would have made it. Boutique sausage, 200-lb batches, real paprika (not liquid extract), whole fennel seed (we don't buy it ground), 22–25% fat. Pat McAfee's pick on ESPN GameDay. The hot sausage we put in our famous sandwich since 1945.

Ingredients

Pork, water, salt, whole fennel seed, garlic, crushed red pepper, black pepper, real paprika, family spice blend. Natural casing. All natural — no fillers, no MSG, no additives, no preservatives.

Ideas From the Counter.

On a Mancini's roll with peppers, onions, and Grande cheese — that's the Ricci's hot sausage sandwich, the one Pittsburgh has been ordering since 1945. Also: sliced over rigatoni, on pizza, or crumbled into stuffed peppers.