16 Sausage and Rice Recipes for Dinner

Sausage and rice recipes taste great, and many are one pan or skillet meals, perfect for cooking in a cast iron skillet. So quick and easy for weeknight dinners, with all kinds of smoked sausage to try.

These recipes call for various types of sausage. Some are for breakfast sausage or pork sausage, which are pretty interchangeable in recipes.

Others call for kielbasa or andouille. Kielbasa has a different flavor from breakfast sausage and andouille is a bit more spicy.

You can make a lot of sausage substitutions. Have hot links if you love spice. A lot of vegan or vegetarian sausage substitutes will work in these dishes.

You could probably use chorizo in just about any of those. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a leaner pork sausage and packs a lot of flavor and has a chunkier texture than pork sausage.

Sausage and rice dish in skillet