Smoked Sausage Stew

Bring home the flavors of the bayou with Smoked Sausage Stew. This saucy skillet dinner is served over rice and serves a crowd. Go ahead, and add this to your regular menu rotation.

The smoked sausage combined with green peppers, onion, diced tomatoes and Lima beans creates an easy, yet hearty meal perfect for a weeknight meal.

Stew with Smoked Sausage and Peppers

I love smoked sausage recipes (AKA kielbasa recipes).  It’s one of those ingredients that I keep at all times in the refrigerator. Sometimes, I fry it up to eat as a sandwich or other times, I use it as the protein in a casserole or skillet meal.

In this recipe, I fry up smoked sausage with onions and peppers, and then simmer it in a tomato-based sauce.  I add frozen lima beans to my kielbasa stew but you are more than welcome to substitute in frozen okra or omit it completely. Try serving over cooked rice as the perfect vessel to soak up all the bayou-inspired flavors.

 

Our Favorite Soup and Stew Recipes

We love soup and they are easy to make. Most of our soup recipes get better as they sit in the refrigerator so they are great to make on the weekend to have for lunch throughout the week. Here are some of our favorite soup recipes.

Tuscan White Bean and Sausage Soup

Hamburger Vegetable Soup with V-8 Juice

Mom’s Beef Stew in Slow Cooker

Crock Pot Taco Soup

Instant Pot Beef and Barley Soup

Black-Eyed Peas and Sausage Stew

Check out all of our soup recipes.

Smoked Sausage Stew Recipe

Kielbasa stew is a quick recipe that you can make on a busy weeknight, or make it on the weekend, and reheat it later on in the week. The flavors will improve as it sits in the refrigerator.

The flavors are bayou inspired with a tomato based sauce that coats peppers, onions, smoked sausage and lima beans.  I honestly think there’s no way you can screw this recipe up.  Use a little more or a little less, and kielbasa skillet will still turn out tasty.

If you like the flavors of Louisiana, check out our Jambalaya with Ham recipe.

Smoked Sausage Stew Ingredients

• Olive Oil
• Smoked Sausage
• Green Peppers
• Onion
• Tomato Paste
• Garlic
• Chicken or Vegetable Broth
• Diced Tomatoes
• Frozen Lima Beans

If you aren’t a fan of Lima Beans, substitute Okra or leave them out completely.

Full ingredient list with amounts can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

How to Make Smoked Sausage Stew with Peppers:

1. Saute smoked sausage, green peppers and onions in olive oil until the vegetables are soft.
2. Add tomato paste and minced garlic, and stir for 30 seconds.
3. To the mixture, add broth, lima beans and undrained diced tomatoes.
4. Simmer uncovered until beans are tender and the sauce is thick.
5. If desired, add hot sauce to taste.
6. Serve over cooked rice.

For the full recipe for bayou sausage stew, scroll to the bottom of this post.

Notes About Kielbasa Skillet Stew:

• Frozen okra could be substituted for frozen lima beans.
• Use whatever type of smoked sausage you prefer including turkey, polish, kielbasa. The sky is the limit.
• The amounts of most of these ingredients can be varied if you are trying to use up what’s in the fridge. That’s the best part of making a stew – you can’t really screw it up.
• Serve this kielbasa stew over cooked rice.  I love making brown rice as a healthy alternative to white.
• If you like your bayou stew hot, add hot sauce to taste.
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More Smoked Sausage Recipes:

Cheesy Smoked Sausage and Potato Casserole

Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Skillet

Cheesy Smoked Sausage and Vegetable Casserole

 

This post is sponsored by the Glass Barn, Indiana Soybean and Corn Farmers but all thoughts and opinions are our own.