Ready to take a trip to Italy without leaving your kitchen? Italian sausage is like a culinary passport, bringing you the flavors of Italy right to your table. Whether you're a sausage aficionado or just looking to spice up your meals, there's a recipe here to make your taste buds sing. From classic pasta dishes to hearty soups, Italian sausage is a versatile ingredient that can elevate any meal.
Sausage and Bean Soup
This hearty sausage and bean soup is a wonderful blend of flavors that will warm you up on a chilly day. It's packed with protein and vegetables, which makes it a perfect choice for a healthy weeknight dinner.
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Gluten Free Lasagna Soup
This easy Gluten Free Lasagna Soup is a comforting dinner that will warm your soul. It's rich, creamy and topped with fun toppings.
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Spicy Tomato Pasta with Italian Sausage
This easy weeknight tomato pasta recipe uses spicy Italian sausage, tomato sauce, and crushed red pepper for a hearty dinner. Ready in just 30 minutes.
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Chick Pea Pasta with Sausage + Broccoli Rabe
This easy recipe for Chick Pea Pasta with Sausage + Broccoli Rabe is a healthy and satisfying dinner that can be on the table in 20 minutes!
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Sheet Pan Sausage Dinner
This Sheet Pan Sausage Dinner is a complete meal made in one pan! This flavourful dish is simple to put together on a busy weeknight and incredibly easy to clean up!
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Sausage Risotto
Sausage Risotto is a hearty, satisfying dish that combines the richness of Italian sausage with the creamy texture of Arborio rice.
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Skillet Sausage and Eggplant Pasta
This hearty sausage and eggplant pasta recipe is the perfect healthy comfort food. Gluten-free and filled with a variety of Italian flavours and textures, this simple meal is sure to be a hit on a cozy night. It comes together in under 30 minutes!
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Sausage and Pepper Pasta Bake
This is a fun twist on the classic Sausage and Peppers! Sausage and Peppers is an Italian American dish consisting of, you guessed it, sausage and peppers!
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Italian Sausage Soup with White Beans
This Italian sausage soup is delicious and filling - just what you need after a long day. Make this easy one pot recipe for dinner tonight!
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Sausage Broccoli Rabe Pasta with Potatoes
This sausage pasta recipe is hearty with rich and subtly spicy sausage meat, sweet peas, and tempered-down broccoli rabe (a.k.a fresh rapini)-no blanching required.
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Zuppa Toscana Soup
This healthy, amazingly delicious dairy-free Zuppa Toscana comes together with just 6 real food ingredients and is ready in just 30 minutes!
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Sweet Potato and Sausage Casserole
Whether you're planning a cozy weekend brunch, a mid-week dinner surprise, or even a potluck contribution, this casserole is your go-to dish.
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Slow Cooker Sausage Peppers And Onions
Flavorful crock pot Italian sausage, peppers and onions has all the flavor that will have you putting this recipe into your regular rotation. This homey meal is packed full of flavor, while being pretty hands off to make. Pile the sausage, peppers and onions on a fluffy roll or on top of pasta for an easy dinner.
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Easy Baked Italian Sausage and Peppers
This classic baked Italian sausage and peppers recipe is made even better by roasting Italian sausage, sweet peppers and onions on a sheet pan so they're browned, caramelized, buttery and delicious. Easy prep and clean up!
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Spicy Sausage Pasta
This Spicy Sausage Pasta is a great choice when you're entertaining, enjoying a date night at home or any time you want some comfort food. Every bite of creamy pasta provides a hint of tangy Dijon mustard, and smoky-spice from the chipotle peppers and spicy sausages.
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Breakfast Casserole with Sausage, Eggs and Cheese
Looking for a delicious but easy breakfast recipe? Make this breakfast casserole the night before, then just pop it in the oven in the morning. Super simple and yummy!
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Air Fryer Italian Sausage
These air fryer Italian Sausages are cooked with sweet peppers and onions for a quick and easy meal in just 20 minutes! They're perfect sliced and served over pasta or stuffed into buns for a weeknight dinner the whole family will love!
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Sausage Tortellini Soup
Sausage Tortellini Soup (Instant Pot Version) is rich and creamy with Italian sausage, cheese tortellini, and spinach, and is quick and easy to make in an Instant Pot for hot comforting soup on a cold winter evening.
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Sausage Stuffed Cubanelle Peppers
Sausage Stuffed Cubanelle Peppers are classic comfort food with a wonderful depth of flavor. The filling is a super-savory combination of Italian sausage, sharp provolone and Pecorino cheeses, white wine, and your choice of either bread or cauliflower, along with other aromatics.
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Pappardelle with Italian Sausage
Pappardelle is a long pasta that pairs perfectly with a hearty Italian sausage sauce. While it takes a bit of time, it's definitely worth it because the flavor is amazing.
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Goat Cheese, Basil, and Italian Sausage Calzones
Easy homemade calzones with tangy goat cheese, fresh basil, and Italian sausage (no ricotta!) Make four individual calzones, or 1-2 large ones to slice and share on pizza night.
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Italian Sausage & Vegetable Stew
Serve up this Italian Sausage and Vegetable Stew for one hearty and stick to your bones stew. You have Italian sausage in every bite paired with Mediterranean veggies and sliced zucchini. Serve this up for dinner and enjoy the rich and vibrant flavors of this stew recipe.
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Sausage-Stuffed Mushrooms
These savory and easy sausage-stuffed mushrooms with cream cheese are the perfect appetizer for any holiday party! Every time I make them, every last one is gone!
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Sausage and Peppers Sandwich with Cheese
This easy Sausage and Peppers Sandwich with Cheese is perfect for a weeknight dinner. It's a sheet pan meal that takes 30 minutes to make. Quick, simple, delicious.
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Air Fryer Potatoes And Sausage With Carrots + Broccoli
Easy Air Fryer Meal with Potatoes and Sausage! This easy, mouth-watering air fryer potatoes and sausage with carrots + broccoli is a one-pot air fryer meal the entire family will love! Serve it for lunch or dinner! The veggies and sausage are perfectly crisp on the outside, tender on the inside, flavorful, and satisfyingly delicious.
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Polenta Con Spuntature e Salsiccia
Creamy polenta served with a flavorful sauce made of spareribs (spuntature) and sausage. A hearty Italian dish perfect to serve for large family gatherings and Sunday meals!
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Italian Sausage Soup
This white bean and sausage soup comes together easily all in one pot and is wonderfully hearty. It's loaded with flavour and healthy ingredients and is perfect for make ahead lunches and dinners or for batch cooking and freezer meals! The best part is it can be made in 30 minutes!
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Instant Pot Sausage + Pasta
Cozy and comforting, this Instant Pot Italian sausage and pasta dinner is easy to make with only 2 minutes on high pressure in the pressure cooker. After about 10 minutes of initial sauteing, this boldly flavored dish comes together very easily and cooks the rest of the way on the high-pressure setting for nicely textured pasta with a thick, tomato sauce.
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Italian Sausage Butternut Squash Soup
Easy to make and wonderfully cozy, this Italian Sausage Butternut Squash Soup is full of veggies and high in protein. It has similar flavors to the classic favorite Tuscan Chicken but in a healthy soup that's perfect for family dinners.
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Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
This homemade spaghetti sauce is perfect for dinner, especially Sunday! Filled with ground beef, sausage, tomatoes, garlic, onion, and fresh basil.
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Italian Sausage Sandwich
This saucy, flavor-packed Italian Sausage Sandwich is loaded with peppers, onions, and mushrooms and topped with melted cheese. Perfect for a game day party or a casual meal any night of the week.
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Minestrone Soup With Sausage
This minestrone soup with sausage is loaded with fresh vegetables and flavored with Italian sausage. It will become your favorite soup for the cold season served with crusty bread or pasta.
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Gluten Free Lasagna
With layers of fluffy ricotta together with a flavorful meat sauce, this best Gluten-Free Lasagna recipe is everything you could want for a family dinner! It's ultra easy to make with shortcuts included below, and even better, there's no need to boil the noodles.
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Italian Sausage Soup
Italian sausage soup is a rich-flavored meal with zesty Italian sausage and veggies simmered in a tomato broth. It's finished with fresh spinach, pasta, and a sprinkle of parm!
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Italian Stuffed Meatloaf
This Italian Stuffed Meatloaf is made with Italian sausage and ground beef and stuffed with a layer of spinach and provolone cheese. Corn and red bell pepper add color, texture and flavor to this unique meatloaf.
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Drunken Clams with Italian Sausage and Polenta
Drunken Clams with Italian Sausage and Polenta is an easy and delicious anytime dish made with sauteéd spinach, burst cherry tomatoes, littleneck clams, and sweet Italian sausage served over creamy polenta.
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Baked Italian Meatballs
These Baked Italian Meatballs are the best, juicy, most flavorful Baked Italian Meatballs made with ground beef and Italian sausage and seasoned to perfection with Italian herbs and parmesan cheese. Serve with spaghetti sauce and pasta for a delicious meal!
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Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta
This creamy Italian sausage pasta recipe makes the most delicious and easy meal in thirty minutes, for a quick dinner the family will love.
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One Pot Cheesy Sausage Pasta
One Pot Sausage Pasta is a family favorite comfort food meal. A creamy, cheesy tomato basil sauce cooks right into the linguine pasta in this amazing Italian sausage pasta recipe! Toss everything in a pot and let it cook.
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Baked Rigatoni Pasta
This baked rigatoni recipe is pasta tossed in a flavorful meat sauce, then topped with plenty of cheese and baked until golden brown. A super easy dinner option that's great for feeding a crowd!
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One Pot Creamy Sausage Gnocchi
One Pot Creamy Sausage Gnocchi is a flavorful dinner that's made entirely in one pot. This easy dinner recipe takes less than 30 minutes to make.
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Sausage Stuffed Delicata Squash
This Sausage Stuffed Delicata Squash is good enough to be the main dish for a holiday party or a fancy dinner party because it's SO GOOD and absolutely gorgeous.
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Pasta with Italian Sausage and Peppers
Pasta with Italian Sausage and Peppers is a quick and easy dinner that's packed with flavor. Grab your favorite Italian sausage-hot, mild, or a combination of both-and dinner will be on the table in 30 minutes!
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Creamy Sausage Mushroom Pasta
Creamy Sausage Mushroom Pasta with rigatoni and a creamy white Alfredo sauce is a hearty and comforting dinner for two. Serve it with a side salad for a complete meal.
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Sausage Ragout with Zoodles
This dish has several veggies in it that need to be chopped, but other than that it's super simple. The sauce is crumbled sausage + tons of veggies + tomato paste and whole tomatoes, then that simmers for as long or as little as you feel like waiting.
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Sweet Potato Sausage Soup
This Sweet Potato Sausage Soup is on repeat at our house the second the weather turns colder! It has such a delicious, rich, savory broth. This soup is so easy to make in one pot.
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Italian Sausage Pizza Bites
Serving pizza is popular for a party, but sometimes you don't have room for a whole slice. Problem solved with Italian Sausage Pizza Bites, which are mini pizzas topped with a homemade pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and hot Italian sausage with peppers.
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Italian Sausage and Pepper Nachos
These Sausage and Pepper Nachos are a spin off of the Italian American classic: Sausage and Peppers, bringing all that delicious flavor to you in nacho form! They're packed with flavor, easy to make and perfect for game day!
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Easy Baked Gnocchi
Easy baked gnocchi recipe is a simple one-pan recipe that's packed with flavor! This quick dinner recipe is made with just 8 ingredients and takes about 30 minutes to make.
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Rigatoni with Italian Sausage, Mascarpone + Walnuts
Sweet Italian sausage gets browned and simmered with canned crushed tomatoes and garlic, then creamy Mascarpone cheese gets stirred in to make it rich, velvety and oh so creamy. It gets tossed with al dente pasta and finished with a shower of crunchy chopped walnuts.
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Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta
This Creamy Italian Sausage Pasta comes together in just 20 minutes for a quick and easy dinner the whole family will love!
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Sweet Potato and Spicy Chorizo Stew
It's incredibly easy to make, full of hearty flavors, made with ground chorizo meat, sweet potatoes, garlic, onions, red bell pepper, and then layered with Mediterranean spices and a rich tomato base.
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Sicilian Homemade Sausages With Beans Stew
A simple and delicious one-pan recipe of homemade Sicilian Sausages with beans made using tomatoes, chopped onions, celery, garlic, and hot pepper. An easy recipe that you can make in just one pan or you can use your slow cooker for that.
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Classic Baked Mostaccioli
This Classic Baked Mostaccioli is the perfect Italian pasta dish for weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and holiday parties. The perfect combination of marinara sauce, Italian sausage, spices and of course cheese.
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Creamy Pasta With Sausage
Pasta Norcina is a soulful combination of sausage, mushrooms, white wine, pecorino cheese, black pepper, a hint of nutmeg and baby spinach in a rich, aromatic, cream sauce. It's about as cozy and comforting as pasta gets and can be ready in about 35 minutes.
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Brussels Sprouts Sausage Pasta
This Brussels Sprouts Sausage pasta is THE comfort food recipe your whole family will love! It's an easy one pot dish made with orecchiette, Brussels sprouts, Italian sausage, oregano and Parmesan.
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Italian Lasagna
This recipe for Italian Lasagna is a family favorite. A rich meat sauce, ricotta cheese, Mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese marry together in this delicious traditional casserole.
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White Bean Soup with Italian Sausage, Zucchini, and Basil
White Bean Soup with Italian Sausage, Zucchini, and Basil is so tasty, and with sausage and zucchini, this soup is relatively low in carbs! See notes for making a version of this white bean soup that's even lower in carbs.
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Copycat Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana
Copycat Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana tastes just like the restaurant original! A creamy soup filled with hot Italian sausage, potatoes, and kale.
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Sausage Lentil Soup
Want the ultimate comforting soup for a chilly day? This hearty Sausage Lentil Soup recipe with kale is perfect for wrapping yourself up in comfortable clothes and enjoying a good, hearty bowl of flavorful goodness!
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Sausage Gnocchi with Spinach
This Sausage Gnocchi with Spinach is creamy and delicious! The recipe is the perfect weeknight meal and only requires 20 minutes & ONE POT!
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Creamy Italian Sausage Soup with Potatoes and Kale
This creamy Italian sausage soup is full of tender potatoes and robust kale. It's hearty, comforting, and super easy! You're only 5 main ingredients, 1 pot, and less than an hour from a warm, delicious, and nutrient-dense meal.
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Italian Sausage Stew
Make this Italian Sausage Stew in the Instant Pot or the Slow Cooker and you might have some leftovers to eat later in the week!
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Slow Cooker Spicy Italian Sausage Ragu
This hearty pasta sauce comes together easily and then simmers away in your slow cooker to deliver that amazing long-cooked Italian red sauce taste.
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White Bean Sausage and Arugula Soup
This White Bean Sausage and Arugula Soup is a one pot wonder and super easy to put together. Make it any night of the week and put some in the freezer for a rainy...or snowy...or any day!
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Italian Pizza
Italian Pizza has a thin crust, simple flavors and cooked in a very hot oven on a pizza stone.
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Italian Sausage And Tortellini Soup
This Italian Sausage and Tortellini Soup is one of my favorite recipes. It transcends all seasons, making it great year-round. The flavors from the Homemade Italian Sausage combined with the creaminess and textures all work perfectly together.
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Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
These sausage stuffed mushrooms are mushroom caps filled with Italian sausage, herbs and three kinds of cheese, then baked to golden brown perfection. An easy and elegant party snack that can be assembled ahead of time!
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