Comfort Food Kielbasa Skillet Dinner

PASTA SKILLET WITH KIELBASA

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil for pasta.
• Meanwhile, heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a deep skillet. Add onion and garlic to the hot oil and saute just until tender, about 5 minutes. Add kielbasa to the skillet and cook and stir until browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, mushrooms, sugar, balsamic, salt, black pepper, and red pepper. Reduce heat and let sauce simmer while you cook pasta.
• Add penne to the pot of boiling water and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, about 11 minutes, stirring peas into pasta during last 2 minutes of cooking time.
• Drain pasta and transfer to sauce. Stir to combine and add basil. Heat over medium-low heat so pasta can absorb liquid from sauce, about 5 minutes. Stir in Cheddar-Monterey Jack cheese and serve.

EASY KIELBASA SKILLET DINNER

Steps:

• Spray a large skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium-low heat. Cook and stir onion in the hot skillet until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add kielbasa; fry until sausage is lightly browned, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes more.
• Stir broccoli and potatoes into sausage mixture; season with salt and pepper. Cook, without stirring, until broccoli begins to soften, about 15 minutes. Stir mixture and continue to cook until vegetables are completely tender, 10 to 15 minutes more.

KIELBASA " HASH " ONE SKILLET DINNER

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat oil.
• Add onions and potatoes, sauté over medium heat until onions are soft and starting to brown, about 10-15 minutes or so.
• Add red peppers and garlic, sauté for about 5 more minutes.
• Add sausage and cook for about 5 more minutes, or until peppers are done to your liking.
• Add salt, pepper, and McCormick seasoning to taste, along with any other spices you might like.
• Like I said, this is great with eggs and toast.

TRUE BANGERS AND MASH WITH ONION GRAVY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C).
• Cook the sausage links in a skillet over medium-low heat until browned on all sides, about 5 minutes per side; transfer to an oven-safe dish and move to the preheated oven to keep warm.
• Place potatoes into a saucepan over medium heat, cover with water, and boil gently until potatoes are tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain and allow to steam dry for a minute or two. Mix in 1/4 cup of butter, milk, dry mustard, salt, and black pepper; mash until fluffy and smooth. Set aside.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium-high heat; cook the onions until translucent and just starting to brown, about 8 minutes. Pour in the beef broth and red wine; boil the mixture down to about half its volume, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper. To serve, place a sausage onto a serving plate with about 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes. Pour the onion gravy over the sausage and potatoes.

KIELBASA & PASTA SKILLET DINNER

Steps:

• Cook pasta according to package instructions.
• In a large skillet, saute over medium heat, the sausage and garlic in butter.
• Combine cornstarch and low-fat milk until smooth.
• Gradually add the cornstarch mixture to the skillet.
• Bring to a boil over medium high heat and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly or until thickened. (You may reduce the heat to medium after this comes to a boil to keep from scorching mixture).
• Drain pasta and add to skillet.
• Stir in peas and cook over medium heat until they are tender.
• Reduce heat to medium low, add cheese and cook until cheese is melted.

KIELBASA SKILLET DINNER

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat the vegetable oil on medium-high heat.
• Add the diced potatoes, toss them around the pan in the oil, then sprinkle Lawery's salt, and pepper over potatoes to taste.
• Let the potatoes cook for 10 minutes, while the potatoes are cooking slice the peppers into strips, then add them to the potatoes keep cooking the potato and pepper mix for another 10-15 minutes or until everything is cooked.
• After adding the peppers to the skillet, start dicing the Kielbasa, I usually cut it into a couple chunks, then slice lengthwise then width-wise.
• Add the diced Kielbasa to the pepper and potato mix with about 5 cooking minutes left on the potatoes and peppers. Since the Kielbasa is precooked, you are just heating up the Kielbasa.