Mama Ruth's Red Rice

Ingredients

• 1 lb link sausage (like Hillshire Farms)
• 1 large bell pepper
• chopped
• 2 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 large onion
• chopped
• 1 cup long grain white rice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• black pepper
• to taste

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Brown sausage with bell pepper and onion in skillet.
3. Combine with rice, sugar, salt, pepper and tomato sauce and drippings from sausage.
4. Place in dutch oven or corning ware, covered in oven for 1 hour, stirring after the first 20 minutes.
5. After 1 hour, let sit in ove for about 20 minutes before serving.