Olive Garden Italian Sausage

About This Dish

Olive Garden Italian Sausage on the catering menu is a Perfect Additions add-on of eight sliced Italian sausages that serves 4 to 6 for $22.49, with 1,990 calories, 164 grams of fat and 5,520 milligrams of sodium for the whole portion. It is the same fennel-and-garlic pork sausage used in the restaurant's meat sauce, sliced so it can be spooned over a pasta pan rather than served as whole links. It is ordered most often with the Spaghetti with Marinara pan, the Five Cheese Ziti al Forno pan and the vegetarian bundles to add meat for a mixed group.

It sits alongside the other catering protein add-ons: Italian Meatballs ($22.49, serves 4 to 6), Grilled Chicken Breasts ($25.99) and Chicken Fingers ($29.29). The sausage is the richest of them at roughly 250 calories per sausage, so a portion of two per person is the usual serving. If you only need sausage for one or two plates, the restaurant side of two links with marinara is $4.29. The catering portion arrives hot in a foil pan and reheats covered at 350°F for about 15 minutes, or it can be stirred straight into a pasta pan before the pan goes into the oven. It is available for catering pickup and delivery with about an hour's notice.