Sausage

Sauté hot Italian sausage meat with ginger and garlic, mix with veg, and dinner’s a wrap!

Squeezing the excess liquid from the potato will ensure it gets extra crunchy when cooked.

Feel free to sub store-bought tortilla chips for the tostadas.

Cornmeal thickens this soup and gives it a silky texture, and the combination of smoky andouille and greens packs in more flavor than you could imagine from a one-hour recipe cook time.

This chorizo recipe is hearty and substantial on its own, but if you want to put an egg on it, go right ahead.

A delicious budget-conscious meal that's able to be cooked in a candlelit apartment.

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Think of this butternut cacio e pepe recipe as pasta cacio e pepe...with sausage. It’s comfort food-y, so it could use some fresh greens and/or veggies to help balance it out. Check out step-by-step photos here.

For this carb-on-carb fried rice recipe, you can use anything but boxed stuffing (the texture is too fine and will turn to mush). We chose a cornbread and chorizo stuffing, which can handle being cooked again and tossed in the stir-fry.

To cut up the kabocha squash for this recipe, slice ¼" off the stem end and base. Stand it on a cut end and halve from top to bottom. Scoop out seeds, peel, and you're home free.

For this porridge recipe, pulsing long-cooking spelt, wheat berries, or barley in a blender yields a tasty base for a hearty, savory supper.

This holiday-worthy recipe was inspired by bread pudding and ended up somewhere between a strata, a gratin, and a traditional Thanksgiving stuffing.

Work is temporary, quick sausage dinner is forever.

Charcuterie plates are great, but cured meats can be used in pasta, sandwiches, and more.

The genius of this pasta recipe is in the contrast of the textures and flavors. If spicy isn’t your thing, sub in any fresh sausage you like.

Not a big fan of chorizo? This chili recipe can also be made with chicken, turkey, or Italian sweet or spicy sausage.

Sausage and greens are a match made in weeknight dinner heaven.

The aromatic sweetness of the vanilla complements the sharp blue cheese and smoky-spicy sausage, and, since we doubt you’re curing your own chorizo, it’s the single handmade element on this tapas plate. This recipe is from Morcilla, one of the Hot 10, America's Best New Restaurants 2016.

If you've got a can of tomatoes, a jar of spicy peperoncini, and a hunk of Parm in your fridge, you're halfway to a satisfying pasta dinner.

Turn a can of beans into a hearty, healthy dinner in minutes.

This paprika- and chile-spiked potato salad is equally delicious served warm or room temperature.

Make sure to cut the onions and peppers into big pieces so that they don’t fall through the grill grates.

This sandwich alone is worth the trip to this five-table restaurant in the western suburbs of Chicago.