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Your family will love this easy and delicious Crock Pot Sausage and Potatoes recipe. Let the slow cooker do the work and come home to a tasty dinner waiting full of hearty potatoes and flavorful sausage.
You are in for a treat with this tasty meal. The baby potatoes are so tender and the sausage is so filling and delicious.
Everything simmers together in the Slow Cooker to give this recipe the best flavor. This meal is the best comfort food and just amazing. Even my kids love it. Check out all our Easy Crock pot Pork Chops.
This is one of the recipes we rely on for busy weeks and the entire family enjoys this meal so much. The crock pot truly does all the work and all of the ingredients get tossed in. It is a one pot meal that makes an easy dinner that your family will love. You must also check out this Kielbasa Pasta Recipe.
What's in this post: Crockpot Sausage and Potatoes Recipe
Why You’ll Love Slow Cooker Sausage and Potatoes
With tender potatoes that soak up garlicky broth and slices of smoky sausage in every bite, this Crockpot Sausage & Potatoes recipe proves weeknight comfort food can be effortless!
This one dish meal feeds the whole family and is budget friendly. We love that it is completely versatile so you can easily swap sausages, add extra vegetables or change the spices.
Ingredients
- Whole Baby Potatoes – Feel free to use any potatoes you prefer
- Smoked Sausage – We used summer sausage
- Yellow Onions – Slice the onions in large pieces for flavor
- Diced Tomatoes – We used a 14.5 oz can but you can use a larger can. We did not drain the can.
- Salt – Use pink salt or other type of salt
- Minced Garlic – Learn How to Mince Garlic Cloves
- Italian Seasoning – Learn How to Make Italian Seasoning Recipe
- Chicken Broth – If you are out, see Chicken broth substitutes
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How to Make Crock Pot Sausage and Potatoes
Step 1 – Add everything into the crock pot. If you don’t like onions, check out The Best Onion Substitutes.
Step 2 – Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or cook on high for 3-4 hours (until potatoes and onions are tender). The cooking time will vary based on the crock pot used for this recipe.
Step 3 – Then serve immediately while warm and enjoy.
Crock Pot Sausage and Potatoes
Ingredients
- 16 oz fully cooked sausage sliced into 1 inch chunks
- 2 lbs whole baby potatoes cut in half
- 2 small yellow onions cut into chunks
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 1 cup chicken broth
Instructions
- Add everything into the crock pot.
- Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or cook on high for 3-4 hours (until potatoes and onions are tender).
- Serve immediately while warm and enjoy!
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Flavor Variation Ideas
- Add Cheese. – If you want to try something new, add cheese to the recipe. My kids love when I top this recipe with cheese. They call it cheesy potatoes and ask for this all of the time. I also love topping mine with a little bit of sour cream.
- Add Veggies. – You can also add in some vegetables to potatoes and sausage for extra veggies. Fresh Green beans, green beans, carrots or red bell peppers would all be delicious in this recipe. Add these in for the last 2-3 hours so that they don’t get over cooked.
- Make it Creamy. – Try adding cheddar cheese soup, cream of chicken soup or cream of celery soup to this slow cooker recipe. Mix the cream soup with the chicken broth before adding it into the crock pot.
- Add some Spice. – If you love spicy foods, add in 1-2 tsp of Creole seasoning, cajun seasoning or red pepper flakes when making this recipe to add a little kick to this dinner.
- Add a Ranch Flavoring. – If you love the flavor of ranch, stir in a ranch seasoning packet with the chicken broth before adding it to the crock pot to change up the flavor on this recipe.
- Use your favorite type of Potatoes. – I used whole baby potatoes in this recipe but you can easily use any of your favorite instead. Peeled and diced Russet potatoes, red potatoes or sweet potatoes would all be delicious in this crock pot recipe.
- Leave out the Tomatoes. – If you don’t love tomatoes, you can easily leave them out or use a tomato sauce instead.
What to Serve with Crock Pot Sausage and Potatoes?
- Serve it with a salad. – Serve it with a simple side salad. It makes me feel better having a side salad with this hearty meal.
- Serve it with a roasted veggie. – You can also roast your favorite green vegetable and serve it with this simple crock pot meal. Roasted Brussel Sprouts, Roasted Green Beans or Roasted Asparagus would all be delicious with this meal.
- Add some bread. – Make these Garlic Bread Cheese Sticks Recipe and you are set for a delicious and wonderful meal everyone will love.
Frequently Asked Questions
I used smoked sausage in this recipe and it worked great. However, you can definitely use your favorite type in this recipe. Turkey sausage would be delicious and will lower the fat content in this recipe.
Andouille sausage would be delicious in this easy slow cooker recipe as well.
Also, you can easily use Kielbasa sausage to make crockpot kielbasa and potatoes.
Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Yes, you can also freeze the leftovers as well. Store in a freezer safe container for up to 2-3 months. Allow the leftovers to defrost overnight in the refrigerator when you are ready to enjoy them.
Be careful when reheating any leftovers so that the potatoes don’t get too soft.
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We love to hear from you! If you make this Crockpot Sausage and Potatoes Recipe please leave us a comment or a star review.
Is it preferred to use potatoes with skins on? Would this recipe work if I peel the potatoes before adding to the crockpot?
You can peel the potatoes if you prefer and it will still be delicious!
I made this today and added carrots and it was delicious! Very easy to make because the crockpot does most of the work, aside from cutting the onions and sausage and carrots. Will definitely be making this again.
Lynette – That’s great! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and it’s easy to adapt to your taste!
I made this tonight. I left out the tomatoes because my daughter does not like them. I added some smoked paprika. I also browned the sausage before adding them to the crockpot. This was fantastic! My whole family loved it (which is very hard to accomplish). The only change we would probably make is cooking half the sausage in it and just browning the rest at the end. We really liked the flavor the sausage adds but felt they got a bit softer than we prefer. Browning half the sausage at the end will give us the texture we like as well.
I’m so glad everyone loved it April! So glad you can easily adapt to your preference!
This was much better than I was anticipating. Set it before I went to work and came home to a delicious home cooked meal. We served it with a side of steamed edamame in the shell. I am curious to try different variations. I was very tempted to top with some Parmesan. I substituted the diced tomatoes for a small ton of Mexican green chilis.
Woohoo! I’m so glad you enjoyed it Eric! Thank you for sharing and thank you so much for the positive review!
Made this yesterday and changed a few things……………went with Mexican theme. Threw in a can of Rotel, chilis and Mexican seasonings. It was so yummy. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. Served it with fresh avocado, shredded cheese and sourcream on the side.
Looking forward to our leftovers tonight!
Your additions sound delicious. I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Delicious!
Just head’s up, you have a typo in the instructions. It’s 304 hours on high instead of 3 or 4 hours.
Thank you so much – I’ll get that fixed!
I make this but leave out the tomatoes, didn’t care for it the first time I made it. I also add a tsp. or so of Tony Cacheres seasoning. In the summer, I do fried green tomatoes as the side.
I love how this is a base for tossing in what one likes (or has on hand). If it taste as good as it smells, then I’ll be sticking it to my fridge with a special magnet. Thanks for sharing.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing!
Would you be able to use Dutch smoked sausage in this recipe ???
Yes, I think that would be delicious in this recipe.
What can you substitute for the diced tomatoes or is it OK to leave them out? Husband has diverticulitis and cannot eat seeds.
You can substitute with crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, or just leave it out all together.
VERY deliciious. thanks much. I did add creole seasoning a little bit. yum!
We’ll make this again. We followed the recipe exactly except we had a 29 oz. can of diced tomatoes that we used. It had more liquid than we anticipated, but we thought that may have been from the larger can of tomatoes. The recipe calls for a can of diced tomatoes, but it did not say what size. Everyone enjoyed this and leftovers were just as good (if not better) today. Thanks for all the good recipes.
Must try this, looks really good.
Do you need to drain the diced tomatoes?
You do not have to. We didn’t.
Very simple
Very nice
Love it.
Easy to prepare, and tasty. My boys loved it.
i use chicken broth it is a fantastic flavor with it all and a 12–14 oz can of tomatoes
Sounds delicious – Thank you so much for sharing!
I was wondering about this, too… Please let us know what size can of diced tomatoes and what flavor broth to use. Thanks!
Hi! I was wondering what size can of diced tomatoes and what flavor broth?
I am hoping to make this recipe tomorrow night!
Thank you!
Laurie