28 Quick Kielbasa Recipes for Easy Weeknight Dinners

This tasty dish blends smoky kielbasa with tart sauerkraut. It's simple and easy to make - a one pot meal with easy prep and cleanup. It's real comfort food.

Here's an Oktoberfest dish that you're going to love. You simmer your polska kielbasa in Guinness extra stout, and then you smother it in a sausage queso that's also made with stout.

Then you put it all in a bun, and you've got a great handheld dish for parties. Or tomorrow's dinner. It works so many ways!

Seafood boils are an amazing dish for seafood lovers. This recipe gives you fresh lobster, shrimp, clams, crabs and kielbasa along with potatoes and corn.

It's all cooked together in a flavorful broth. This is a full meal in one pot.

This is a tomato-based soup that features fifteen types of beans along with sausage and lots of fantastic seasonings. All that, and it's really easy to make.

You can make this Cajun dish in thirty minutes, and it features shrimp and sausage along with linguine. Add to that some delicious vegetables and a seasoned cream sauce, and you're all set.

This recipe uses Velveeta to get that wonderful creamy cheesy flavor. Some people turn off their nose is at the mention of Velveeta, but let's face it. It's a great way to add cheese to pasta.

And it's a big time saver. Total cook time for this dish is 25 minutes.

This delicious soup recipe includes the flavors of bacon along with kielbasa and vegetables. It's a great way to enjoy split peas.

In this 30 minute dish, kielbasa meets cheese and zucchini. But there's also red bell pepper, onion, rice and cloves for seasoning.

This is a true one dish meal that cooks in one skillet.

You can turn this into a full meal by serving it with some bread or a salad, or just a veggie side.

What makes this dish Cajun? It's all about the seasonings. This is kielbasa with peppers and onions, but what makes it special is the Cajun seasoning, along with garlic, basil and tomato sauce.

It's a whole meal on its own, but if you want to add something to it, cornbread, grits or rice would be perfect,

Pierogis are a type of traditional Polish dumplings, typically made with a soft, doughy shell and filled with savory or sweet ingredients. This recipe uses store bought pierogis because hey, why make them from scratch?

That makes this a quick and easy dish to make on a weeknight for dinner. It's a very cheesy, creamy dish that's sure to be a hit even with kids.

Here's another one pot meal, this one involving penne pasta with smoky kielbasa. A Cajun spice blend gives lots of flavor, along with chewy mushrooms and crunchy peppers.

Along with all this texture and flavor, you get a rich, buttery creamy sauce.

Do you love the flavor of mustard greens? This recipe combines mustard, greens with kielbasa and rice, and you cook it all quickly in the instant pot

Gnocchi is a perfect ingredient for a kielbasa dish. It's like little pillows of potato deliciousness. This recipe adds some vegetables and seasonings, and that's all you need.

In just half an hour, you can enjoy a delectable one-pan dinner of smoked kielbasa, potatoes and green beans. Just imagine that sausage with potatoes, crisp green beans, peppers and onions. And now imagine adding a perfect blend of spices. That's one satisfying and flavorful meal.

This is another kielbasa and cabbage dish - this time as a stir fry. You can use a wok or any skillet to make this one.

Everything is fried with just a little bit of olive oil, so it tastes rich and delicious, but doesn't have nearly the calories of, say, butter.

This is an inspired take on Cajun red beans and rice that uses kielbasa instead of andouille sausage. It's got the Cajun seasonings and flavors you would expect, including garlic and green bell pepper.

Here's another sweet kielbasa recipe, this one featuring apple jelly, barbecue sauce, salt, and pepper.

You make these in your instant pot. And when they're done, you can serve them with vegetables or just for eating by themselves.

Turn kielbasa into a soup by adding black beans and some spices, and throwing it all together in your slow cooker.

This one uses jalapeno peppers to add some mild spice, and you can add more by using more peppers.

If you want to have more vegetables in your kielbasa dish, this meal is perfect. It's kielbasa with potatoes and four different colors of bell peppers cooked on a sheet pan.

Between you and me, you could certainly add or swap out whatever vegetables you want. However you make it, it tastes great and is so quick and simple to make.

One pan. Thirty five minutes. This is another kielbasa and potato recipe, but this time it's all on one sheet pan for your convenience. The potatoes come out crispy!

This is basically a recipe for kielbasa hotdogs. You cook your kielbasa sausages in your air fryer for just a few minutes.

Then you can put them on buns with sauerkraut and any other ingredients you want. You can also just cut them up into pieces and serve it as an entrée with some mustard for dipping sauce.

This recipe uses a yellow curry sauce and coconut milk to give it a real curry feel. It also has carrots and onion, so really could be a full meal on its own.

Did you ever think of making candied kielbasa? This slow cooker recipe does exactly that.

Your sausage is candied in a simple mix of ketchup and brown sugar with horseradish for added flavor.

Here's a recipe that uses store bought pierogis. But instead of a casserole, this recipe gives you nachos.

If your kids love eating nachos, they'll love this. It's kielbasa and sauerkraut with a homemade beer cheese sauce.

Here's yet another way to enjoy your store-bought pierogies, this time cooking them in an air fryer or grill. These are both quick methods for cooking frozen foods.

To the pierogis, this recipe adds kielbasa, red bell peppers and onions.

Like a combination of the above two recipes, this one gives you kielbasa, cabbage and potatoes in one dish. You make it in a slow cooker, so it takes time, but prep and cleanup are easy.

This is filling, and really could be your whole meal. If you want to add something, a veggie side dish would be perfect.

If you like cooking in foil packets, this is a great dish for you. It's grilled kielbasa with potatoes and onions.

But that's not all. There's also a really delicious honey mustard sauce with seasonings to bring out all the best flavors.

This is a perfect meal for camping or outdoor get-togethers.