The 35+ BEST Sausage Recipes

Sausages, the saviors! The saviors for the “what’s for dinner tonight” days. Tired of the same old chicken night? Try these sausage dinner ideas for a change. They are far more versatile than just grilling. The seasons wouldn’t limit them. They would find their way into some salad bowl in summer time and can be doused in some thick sauces or soups in winter. This collections of great sausage recipes will show you how…

They could be your start of the day with some cracking breakfast casserole or hash, or in fun time pizzas or rolls, or they could be the star of dinner table with gumbos and jambalayas.

Sausages come in various avatars in every culture from chorizo to Andalusian to Italian to kielbasa to bratwurst. They can be hot or sweet, spicy or mild. All of them can make some delicious, flavor packed sausage dinners.

We have complied a list of some amazing Sausage Recipes that would go great in your repertoire. They will take care of you right from breakfast to a memorable sausage dinners.

1. Jambalaya Pasta (Pastalaya)

Jambalaya Pasta, aka Pastalaya, is a super tasty dish featuring shrimp, chicken and sausage smothered in a creamy, cheesy sauce full of Louisiana flavors.

It’s like everyone’s favorite jambalaya, but with pasta instead of rice. How cool!

Get the Recipe: Pastalaya

2. Zuppa Toscana

A giant pot of this creamy concoction made up of crumbled sausage, tender, melt in your mouth potatoes, crispy heavenly bacon, and the goodness of kale. This can’t get any better. Yes, so much better than Olive Garden’s version.

Get the Recipe: Zuppa Toscana

3. Italian Sunday Gravy (Sunday Sauce)

Ah, Sunday Gravy, the heartwarming Italian-American culinary tradition that turns an ordinary weekend into a delectable feast!! 

This is quintessential Italian-American comfort food that has not only conquered hearts, but also taste buds across generations. 

Imagine a rich tomato sauce teeming with a medley of meats like short ribs or spare ribs, meatballs, and sausage simmering for hours, and you have the masterpiece that is Sunday Gravy.

Get the Recipe: Sunday Gravy

4. Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits

Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits is an amazing comfort food. Plump shrimp and smoky sausage are smothered in a savory gravy and served over creamy, cheesy grits.

Get the Recipe: Shrimp and Grits

5. Spanish Clams with Chorizo

These Spanish Clams are simmered with cannellini beans, chorizo sausage and great flavor enhancers. It’s an amazing tapas dish that will easily impress guests, but is easy enough for any weeknight.

This is one of those dishes where just a few ingredients combine to form something unbelievably delicious.

Get the Recipe: Spanish Clams with Chorizo

6. Chicken Scarpariello

Chicken Scarpariello, or “Shoemaker’s Chicken”, is a delightful dish where chicken braises with sausage and peppers in a white wine sauce. It’s yum!

Get the Recipe: Chicken Scarpariello

7. Creamy Sausage Pasta

This simple affair happens in less than 20 minutes. Low efforts and low pressure, yet not compromising in flavors one tiny bit. The secret lies in the goodness of those Italian sausages.

Get the Recipe: Creamy Sausage Pasta

8. Italian Sausage Soup

This Italian sausage soup happens with very simple, yet very flavor dense ingredients. Spicy Italian sausage along with fire roasted tomatoes, white beans and some fresh herbs and spices. That’s pretty much all you need to create this bowl of warmth.

Get the Recipe: Italian Sausage Soup

9. Low Country Boil (Frogmore Stew)

This Low Country Boil recipe is the best way to feed a crowd! Shrimp, sausage, potatoes and corn all boil together in a well seasoned broth. 

Also known as Frogmore Stew, it’s a southern classic that’s meant for a crowd, and is a common sight at outdoor celebrations.

Get the Recipe: Low Country Boil

10. Red Beans and Rice

This Red Beans and Rice recipe is pure New Orleans comfort food. It’s an easy and budget friendly weeknight dinner full of flavor.

Get the Recipe: Red Beans and Rice

11. Pasta alla Norcina

Pasta alla Norcina is a delightful dish where Italian sausage, mushrooms and al dente pasta are enveloped in a creamy white wine infused sauce.

Originating from the town of Norcia in Umbria, Italy, known for its exquisite sausages, this dish beautifully showcases Italian culinary traditions.

Get the Recipe: Pasta alla Norcina

12. Dublin Coddle

Dublin Coddle is an Irish fare. It’s an authentic Irish casserole dish made with potatoes and sausages along with bacon cooked low and slow in the oven. What’s the result? Some rich and very satisfying flavors. You can try this coddle as a teaser to perfect it for next St. Patrick’s day.

Get the Recipe: Dublin Coddle

13. Portuguese Bean Soup

Fooled ya! Portuguese Bean Soup isn’t Portuguese at all! Instead, it’s a hearty and comforting soup that originated in Hawaii.

With a hodgepodge of ingredients like smoked ham hocks, macaroni, kidney beans, an assortment of veggies, and Portuguese sausage (hence the name), this is one flavor packed bowl you don’t want to miss!

Get the Recipe: Portuguese Bean Soup

14. Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

Acorn squash goodness mixed in with sausages. Perfectly roasted squash is filled with Italian sausage, colorful vegetables and topped with parmesan. Good looking, tasty and nutritious.

Get the Recipe: Sausage Stuffed Acorn Squash

15. Creamy Tortellini Soup

Creamy Zuppa Toscana flavors just get amplified by sun dried tomato pesto along with cheesy, pillowy tortellini. This soup has robust Italian flavors coming from sausage and seasonings. So, so good. You just have to try it out to hunt down these great flavors…

Get the Recipe: Creamy Tortellini Soup

16. Jambalaya

If you’re on the lookout for a perfect company meal to feed a crowd, this Jambalaya recipe is it! 

One of America’s most iconic dishes, this rice comes fully loaded with sausage, chicken, shrimp, veggies and a whole world of big flavors.

Get the Recipe: Jambalaya

17. Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe

This easy Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe recipe is a light and satisfying dish, all the way from the southern tip of Italy.

Get the Recipe: Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe

18. Grilled Italian Sausage and Peppers

This Grilled Italian Sausage and Peppers recipe is one of our favorite summertime cookout meals! 

Not only is the flavor combination spot on, but it only takes about 20 minutes. And once they’re cooked, these sausage and peppers go with a huge variety of sides.

Get the Recipe: Grilled Italian Sausage and Peppers

19. Sausage Potato Casserole

This hearty casserole combines two comfort food staples, sausage and potatoes. Add in a generous helping of veggies and you have one great complete meal!

Get the Recipe: Sausage Potato Casserole

20. Breakfast Tacos

Start your day with some flavor! These Breakfast Tacos are your new morning hero, combining easy, tasty, filling and fun!

With just a few ingredients, most of which can be easily substituted, you can have better-than-restaurant breakfast tacos on your table.

Get the Recipe: Breakfast Tacos

21. Spicy Sausage Pasta

Spicy Italian sausage cooked in a perfect wine infused tomato sauce over a bowlful of rigatoni. Yum. This would will come in your regular rotation in no time.

Get the Recipe: Spicy Sausage Pasta

22. Spanish Chicken

This beautifully flavored Spanish Chicken is slow braised in a tomato sauce along with chorizo sausage, chick peas and other tasty ingredients. It’s a delicious combination!

Get the Recipe: Spanish Chicken

23. Italian Sausage Bake

This Italian Sausage Bake is a simple and easy dish and requires only a few basic ingredients. A side of pasta or crusty bread and your meal is complete!

Get the Recipe: Italian Sausage Bake

24. Biscuits and Gravy

Who wouldn’t like some creamy, delicious gravy doused with plenty of sausages over some fresh hot biscuits? One of our favorite sausage recipes, this is a classic comfort breakfast.

Get the Recipe: Biscuits and Gravy

25. Australian Curried Sausages

These easy and delicious Curried Sausages are just too good. A classic comfort food in Australia, this is a dish that needs to go global!

Served them atop a bed of creamy mashed potatoes and you’ve got a unique twist on bangers and mash that’s sure to impress. All in about 25 minutes!

Get the Recipe: Curried Sausages

26. Kielbasa Pasta

This Kielbasa Pasta is a quick and easy weeknight dinner that you’re going to want to put on repeat.

With hearty pasta, smoky Polish sausage, and an assortment of fresh veggies, it’s a complete meal that gets ready in about 30 minutes!

Get the Recipe: Kielbasa Pasta

27. Sausage Rolls

Sausage rolls are Australia’s answer to America’s Pigs in a Blanket. A juicy homemade sausage mixture wrapped in puff pastry. Make them for your next get together or some Sunday fun with your kids. They’re going to love this one.

Get the Recipe @ recipetineats

28. Italian Sausage and Tortellini Bake

This Italian Sausage and Tortellini Bake is pure comfort food bliss. With a well seasoned tomato sauce and plenty of cheese, it’s a sure hit with all ages.

Best of all, it only takes a few minutes of hands on time, then your trusty oven does the rest!

Get the Recipe: Italian Sausage and Tortellini Bake

29. Sausage Gnocchi Soup

This easy Sausage Gnocchi Soup is the perfect bowl of comfort. Pillowy gnocchi and hearty Italian sausage simmer in a delightfully seasoned tomato broth, along with the goodness of spinach.

Get the Recipe: Sausage Gnocchi Soup

30. Lasagna Soup

Feel like lasagna without going to the efforts of assembling it? Make it in a pot. 🙂 It has everything, cheesy noodles smothered in parmesan, mozz and ricotta. You might never go back to making traditional lasagna again. This one is going to be the whole family’s new favorite.

Get the Recipe @ carlsbadcravings

31. Apple Walnut Sausage Stuffing

Stuffing is a holiday special we always look forward to in our lives. This apple walnut sausage stuffing is easy and quick with plenty of crumbled sausages along with herbs and apple. Sounds fabulous!

Get the Recipe @ damndelicious

32. Easy One-Skillet Sausage and Peppers with Rice

This one skillet rice dish with sausage and peppers will be ready to go on your table in 30 minutes. Sounds good to my ears and eyes.

Get the Recipe @ averiecooks

33. Sausage and Veggie Hash

Here is a great way to start your day. A skillet full of sausage (you can throw in any of your favorite sausage or whatever’s available in your fridge) along with veggies, potatoes and Italian flavorings. Break some eggs on top and there you go. You are ready for anything after that hearty start.

Get the Recipe @ chelseasmessyapron

34. Authentic Seafood, Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

Gumbo, a traditional Cajun specialty from Louisiana. A classic blend of meat and seafood and the holy trinity of vegetable along with Cajun spices and herbs. This would take a few hours, simmering in its goodness, but the wait would be well worth it when you get to sip your first spoonful.

Get the Recipe @ garlicandzest

35. Creamy Tuscan Sausage Pasta

Like any other Tuscan thing, this Tuscan Italian sausage pasta is divine. Sausages cooked along with sundried tomatoes and spinach in a decadently creamy delicious Tuscan sauce. Absolutely addictive flavors.

Get the Recipe @ therecipecritic

36. Sausage Stuffed Eggplant

If you love eggplant, this is the ultimate dish for you to bake. These eggplant boats are stuffed with spicy sausage and topped with cheese and baked to melty perfection.

Get the Recipe @ diethood

37. Sausage Mushroom Naan Pizza with Goat Cheese

Try making a pizza with Naan flat bread. You’ll save so much of your time and it comes out of the oven fantastic. This naan bread is piled high with chicken sausage, mushrooms and tangy goat cheese. Delicious.

Get the Recipe @ cookincanuck

38. Greek Sausage & Peppers (Spetzofai)

This classic Greek dish has all the Mediterranean flavors. Spicy sausage cooked in delicious tomato sauce with colorful bell peppers turns into beautiful flavors. All this in under an hour. Serve it with some crusty bread with a good sprinkling of feta cheese.

Get the Recipe @ dimitrasdishes

39. Paella

Paella is a classic Spanish favorite. This one will really impress your family and guests. Sausage along with seafood and vegetables are all simmered in with saffron infused rice. This one sounds and looks delicious.

Get the Recipe @ theforkedspoon

40. English Bangers & Mash

The ultimate British comfort food, bangers and mash along with delicious onion gravy. This is one of those famous sausage recipes, but is so easy. Try cooking your sausages British style!

Get the Recipe @ all-thats-jas

41. Autumn Sausage Veggie and Apple Sheet Pan Dinner

Look at this colorful sheet pan full of different veggies and sausages seasoned with garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil. Something like this is easy to pull together when life gets busy.

Get the Recipe @ cookingclassy

Well there you go, so many different options and possibilities with super simple sausages. They are so versatile and jam packed full of flavors. Pin or bookmark this page so you know exactly where to go for some delicious sausage recipes. Go beyond grilling this summer and experiment with the flavors. We have plenty of awesome recipes coming your way. Stay tuned…

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