One Pot Sausage Pasta
This quick, flavorful One Pot Sausage Pasta is loaded with smoked sausage, green chiles, and pasta in a rich, creamy sauce. It’s an easy, hearty dinner perfect for weeknight meals.
We love tons of flavor, and we’re not ones to shy away from doing some work in the kitchen to make it happen. That being said, sometimes you just want something that’s quick and easy to put on the table. That’s when we make this sausage pasta. It’s ready in a little over 30 minutes, and it’s so good!
Table of contents
❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simple Ingredients: You just need a handful of basic ingredients from your kitchen or local grocery store to make this dinner.
- Easy: It only takes one pan to make this dish, so the recipe and cleanup are both a breeze.
- Hearty: With all that pasta, sausage, and cheesy sauce, this is a recipe that fills everyone up.
- Versatile: Serve this as a family dinner or double it up for parties.
🛒Ingredients
We’ve made this list to help you save time on your next trip to the grocery store. You can find the full amounts needed in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Smoked sausage – sliced
- Onion – diced
- Chicken broth
- Tomatoes with green chiles
- Heavy cream
- Campanelle pasta
- Shredded pepper jack cheese
- Scallions for garnish
🔪 How to Make One Pot Sausage
This is a quick overview of the steps needed to make this recipe. You can find the full instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Lightly brown the sausage and onion over medium heat.
- Add all the remaining ingredients except the cheese, stir, and bring to a boil.
- Cover and reduce the heat to low. Then, cook until the pasta is tender. Stir in 1 1/2 cups of the cheese until melted.
- Salt and pepper to taste and serve topped with more cheese and sliced scallions.
🥄 Equipment
- Measuring cups
- Large skillet
🥫 Storage
Refrigerate this sausage pasta for up to 3 days in an air-tight container.
To reheat the pasta, place it in a saucepan and cook over medium-low heat until heated through.
What to Serve with One Pot Sausage Pasta
This is a hearty dish that pairs perfectly with some equally hearty bread options like garlic breadsticks, tomato focaccia bread, or cheesy pull-apart garlic bread.
💭 Tips
- Kick up the heat with spicy andouille sausage, hot tomatoes with green chiles, or diced jalapenos.
- Change things up with Italian sausage, ground beef, or spicy ground chorizo sausage.
- You only need to lightly brown the sausage. It’s already cooked, and you don’t want the onions to brown and get bitter.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Yes, it is. The smoking process cooks and cures the sausage at the same time.
Any smoked sausage will work well, so the best sausage is the one you like the best!
We don’t recommend freezing this dish. Sauces made with heavy cream like the one in this dish tend to break when defrosted.
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🧾Recipe Card
Want to make this recipe? Print the recipe card below, or pin this recipe, so you can find it later.
One Pot Sausage Pasta
Equipment
- large skillet with lid
- Wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 1 pound smoked sausage slicced
- Half of a small onion diced
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 10 ounces tomatoes with green chiles
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 8 ounces campanelle pasta
- 2 cups shredded pepperjack cheese
- Scallions for garnish
Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium heat add the sausage and onion.
- Brown the sausage and onion lightly.
- To the pan add your chicken broth, tomatoes, heavy cream and pasta.
- Bring everything up to a boil, cover and reduce heat to low.
- Cook for 12-15 minutes until the pasta is tender.
- Stir in 1 ½ cups of the shredded pepperjack cheese.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Top with the remaining cheese and few sliced scallions.
- Once the cheese on top is melted serve!
Disclaimer
Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.
