15 Ways to Turn Chicken Sausage Into an Easy Weeknight Dinner

Turn chicken sausage, quick-cooking orzo, and broccolini into an easy one-skillet pasta dinner with this weeknight-friendly recipe.

While any variety of chicken sausage will work in this slow cooker dinner, we love using andouille-style. It’s packed with a little heat and lots of flavor and is an easy way to jazz up lentils.

This chicken sausage and apple skillet meal is proof that dinner doesn’t have to be complicated! The sausages are nestled among wedges of sautéed apples and onion and finished with a creamy apple cider sauce.

This sheet pan dinner pairs Italian-style smoked chicken sausage with a colorful mix of chopped veggies for a satisfying 30-minute meal.

Fragrant chicken sausage joins forces with smoked paprika, sweet tomatoes, and lots of juicy shrimp to make a one-pan pasta that tastes familiar yet feels new. 

Four ingredients and about 15 minutes is all it takes to get this family-favorite dinner on the table. The recipe calls for nine ounces of chicken sausage, but we can tell you from experience that you won’t regret tossing in the whole 12-ounce pack.

This pantry-friendly orzo dinner relies on marinated artichokes, Italian chicken sausage, and fresh lemon for intense yet effortless flavor.

If you’re already breaking out a sheet pan for potatoes, use the extra real estate on the pan to roast some chicken sausages to make a meal out of it.

Browned chicken sausage, tender sweet potatoes, just-wilted kale, and Italian herbs infuse store-bought broth in this hearty soup.

For those who feel that there aren't enough vegetables in cozy casseroles, this dish makes cauliflower is the star. And it is delicious.

This dish is an easy mix of things that you may already have in your fridge, namely chicken sausage, a bag of baby spinach, and a handful of cherry tomatoes.

An easy recipe using Trader Joe's sweet potato gnocchi roasted on a sheet pan, but feel free to swap in any other kind of gnocchi.

This hearty soup is one of those magical recipes with just a few ingredients, and all the usual suspects — carrot, onion, beans, chicken broth — that nevertheless turns out to have such a deep, wonderful flavor you don’t mind that it makes enough to feed you for a week.

We paired rich, tangy cider-glazed chicken sausages with sautéed green cabbage – the sweet and tart combo are a match made in heaven!

The most important thing you need to know about this easy recipe is that it comes together in under six minutes and involves hearty chicken sausage, tangy sauerkraut, sweet roasted red peppers, and plenty of grainy mustard, just for good measure.