Smothered Cabbage with Smoked Sausage
This simple one-pot meal is full of flavor and easy on the budget. It’s quick enough for weeknights and made with ingredients you can keep on hand. Smothered cabbage with sausage is one of those dependable dinners that delivers every time.
If you’re looking for a new weeknight dinner idea, this one’s worth a spot in your rotation. It’s fresh, filling, and comes together in one pot with minimal fuss. Bonus: it’s budget-friendly and great for using up that head of cabbage in the fridge.
This dish is all about soft, savory cabbage cooked down with browned sausage and warm spices. The seasoning blend brings out a rich, smoky flavor with a hint of sweetness from the cabbage. It’s cozy, a little spicy (if you want it to be), and deeply satisfying.
What You need To Make This Recipe
Stocking up on a few simple ingredients means you can pull this dinner together any time. Cabbage keeps well in the fridge, and smoked sausage stores easily in the freezer.
- olive oil
- onion
- smoked sausage
- cabbage
- water
- garlic powder
- smoked paprika
- chili powder
- fennel seeds
- celery seeds
- salt
- pepper
How To Change This Up
You can use andouille, kielbasa, or even spicy smoked sausage to make this recipe your own. Each one brings a slightly different flavor and texture to the pan.
Add heat with chipotle, cayenne, or ancho chili powder depending on your spice level—just a pinch can make a big difference.
Got Leftovers?
Let leftovers cool, then store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Reheat in a skillet or microwave until warmed through.
We Love Cabbage!
There’s so much you can do with cabbage. Hot dishes like Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls, or Roasted Cabbage with Cheese Sauce, and Hot Egg Roll Salad.
But sometimes you just want for something else, something new to you and when Smothered Cabbage was suggested to us it was new to me, but now it’s an old favorite. Maybe you’re looking for something to do with all the cabbage that’s available this time of year?
Smothered Cabbage with Smoked Sausage
Equipment
- 4 Quart Dutch Oven OR any large deep pot
Ingredients
- 1 TBSP olive oil
- 1/2 cup onion chopped
- 1 1/2 pounds smoked sausage sliced, like Hillshire Farms, I used a similar style locally made sausage
- 1 cabbage, chopped 2 1/2 pounds or so
- 1/4 cup water may need more
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 3/4 tsp chili powder use cayenne or chipotle if you like a lot of heat I use ancho for great flavor and mild heat** use more or less to taste
- 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
- 1/2 tsp celery seeds
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- heat the oil in a dutch oven
- cook the onions for about 3-5 minutes
- increase the heat to medium high, add the sausage and let it brown up
- then add half the chopped cabbage, 2 TBSP of water and sprinkle half the seasonings over the top of the cabbage
- stir to loosen any brown crispy bits
- then reduce the heat to medium, cover and cook 5 minutes
- after 5 minutes add the rest of the cabbage and the of the seasoning
- cover and cook about 10 minutes stirring occasionally, if you notice it’s getting dry add another 2 TBSP of water, in theory the cabbage should be releasing it’s own water and won’t need any extra but sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t
- after cooking for 10 minutes, taste for salt and pepper, add as needed and serve while hot
Nutrition
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I love this time of year. The garden is pumping out the last of its goodness up here in Alaska, the trees are a glorious gold, and there is fresh snow on the mountains that won’t be melting anytime soon.
Two things south-central Alaska does really well is producing Cabbages, big and small. And we also grow amazing root crops like carrots, potatoes, turnips, and beets. Luckily I’ve got plenty of recipes like this Smothered Cabbage with Smoked Sausage or Air Fryer Roasted Cabbage to lean on when we’re harvesting.
Eating out of the garden is kind of an adventure game too; what can I make with potatoes today, except sub in carrots or cabbage or kale on any given day?
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Can’t wait to make this one. It looks just like something my husband will absolutely love!
Made this today and changed some of the spices. It was delicious. Will be making it again.
Loved it added egg noodles, hubby loved it.
I did that last time too!