Oven Baked Italian Sausage is an uncomplicated and tasty recipe for preparing fresh Italian sausages that are perfect in a sub, as a standalone dish, or as a complement to pasta or tomato sauce. Roasting Italian sausage is a mess-free way to yield a beautifully crisp outside and soft, tender inside with little effort in less than 30 minutes!
Prep time: PT5M
Cook time: PT20M
Total time: PT25M
Rating
5 stars (12 reviews)
Keywords
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Ingredients
2 pounds Italian sausage links
Olive oil (optional)
Categories
Main Course
Cooking Basic
Cuisine
Italian
Steps
Preheat oven to 400˚F and arrange a rack in the center of the oven. (Please see the section above in the blog post for Step-By-Step instructions with photos.)
Line a sheet pan with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
Arrange the sausage links in a single layer on the parchment-lined sheet pan with a small amount of space in between each link. If desired, spray the links lightly with some olive oil. This will help to create a more well-browned sausage.
Place the sausage in the oven and roast for 10 minutes. Then, flip the sausages over and roast another 10-15 minutes. This ensures that both top and bottom of the sausage get caramelized during the cooking process.
At this point, the sausage will be cooked, but you can also double check, if you would like, using a stem thermometer inserted into the center of one of the sausage links. The sausage is finished cooking when it has reached an internal temperature of 160˚F (for pork sausages) or 165˚F (for turkey or chicken sausages).
Remove the sausage links from the oven, use tongs to transfer them to a serving platter, and serve immediately. Buon Appetito!
Reviews
Price Cutter next weekly ad on 2026-04-19 (5 stars): The little contrast of “crisp outside and soft, tender inside” makes this feel so reassuring because you’re not just promising ease, you’re protecting the part people worry oven cooking might lose.
Jennifer on 2025-11-01 (5 stars): Thank you so much for this! I live in a tiny apartment with an over-sensitive smoke alarm, so anytime I try to cook something on the stove, it goes off. I tried this recipe, and it works perfectly without me having to stand under the smoke alarm, waving my cutting board and cursing under my breath.
Danielle on 2025-10-30 (5 stars): Incredibly helpful, thank you as someone who always cook sausages in a skillet, but who managed to snag a deal on a bulk purchase, I didn't have the time to stand over a stove. The pork sausages came out perfectly.
Meshelle DL'Heureux on 2025-10-01 (5 stars): loved this oven recipe,I topped with sauerkraut last 5 minute.
Devon HARRIS on 2025-07-19 (5 stars): awesome
Norma on 2025-04-13 (5 stars): Every time I want to cook sausage, I Google how best to do this. Today your post topped my list, Michele. Magic for sure! I am a cook who needs instructions on what not to do as well as what to do. I found these instructions after I had defrosted my frozen sausages in the microwave. I think I overdid that and good to know that I won’t need to do that next time. I did read “don’t pierce the skin” so although the sausage was overdone (because of my overzealous defrosting), the result was so tasty that I ate twice as many as I normally do! Easy-to-follow thorough directions, quick & easy prep and cleanup, and foolproof yummy results. No Google search required next time I cook sausage. Thanks so much!
Jo (Joanne) Boyington on 2025-04-07 (5 stars): I baked the sausages for 23 minutes, then covered them with spaghetti sauce, sweet red roasted peppers (cooked, from a jar) sprinkled on 1/4 tsp (each) rubbed oregano and basil spices, shredded mozzarella cheese, a little more sauce, and topped them with grated parmesan cheese. broiled them for 2 more minutes. (Cheeses melted and golden) (I then lifted them with a pancake turner onto a pile of cooked (drained & rinsed) Linguine pasta, that had been covered in more warmed spaghetti sauce. Yum!
