Slow cooked with beans or lentils, cabbage or sauerkraut, these budget-friendly recipes featuring Polish sausage will provide you with an array of comforting weeknight dinners and keep those winter chills at bay! Lentils are cooked with Polish sausage and cumin to create an incredibly simple, super satisfying weeknight meal.
Polish sausage and kielbasa are actually the same exact thing – which probably lends to the confusion. Kielbasa is a type of pre-cooked smoked sausage. It’s typically available in either a horseshoe shape or long swirled loops. Because it’s pre-cooked you can eat it cold or heat it up and serve it a variety of ways.
To start, you are going to need to spend a few minutes prepping your ingredients. Chop the onion, dice the peppers, and slice the kielbasa. Then drain and squeeze dry the sauerkraut. Be sure you don’t skimp on this – if your sauerkraut is soggy your sauce will be as well.
Sausage Smothered in Red Cabbage. Garafreakinbetian This budget-friendly red cabbage, apple, and kielbasa sausage is a cinch to prepare. "FAB-U-LOUS!" says reviewer TheO's. "We used fresh Polish sausage instead. I cooked it most of the way along with the onions and then added it all to the cabbage to finish cooking.