Slow Cooker Sausage and Cabbage is a easy crock pot recipe ready in 6 hours! Add Sweet Italian Sausage links and vegetables (potatoes, cabbage, carrots and onion!) into your slow cooker for a delicious comfort meal!
Slow Cooker Sausage and Cabbage
I love this crock pot recipe because of how easy it is to make. There’s minimal prep time, besides chopping up vegetables, and then you’re ready to go. Just throw everything into your crockpot, set the timer for 6 hours and get ready for your kitchen to smell amazing!
You guys have been telling me that I need to share more of my slow cooker recipes, since you’ve enjoyed my Cabbage and Kielbasa and Cabbage Roll Casserole. So here I am – now it’s time to share Slow Cooker Sausage and Cabbage!
Ingredients for Slow Cooker Sausage
You might already have everything in your kitchen which is going to make this meal even easier! Here’s what you need:
- cabbage, chopped
- potatoes, chopped
- carrots, chopped
- onion, chopped
- minced garlic
- Sweet Italian Sausage
- chicken broth
- salt, pepper, and brown sugar
How to Make this Easy Cabbage Recipe
Add chopped cabbage to the bottom of the slow cooker.
Add in potatoes, carrots, onions and minced garlic. Peeling the potatoes is completely optional and up to you!
Add in the Sweet Italian Sausage. I buy links and chop them up into 2 inch pieces.
Finally add in chicken broth, salt, pepper and brown sugar. Don’t skip the brown sugar, it balances out the cabbage taste nicely.
Now close the lid and cook on LOW. You don’t need to do anything else! 6 hours later…. YUM YUM YUM! Dinner is served!
How to Serve Sausage and Cabbage
You can serve this as is, as now you have a full meal of meat and vegetables! But you can also serve it on top of egg noodles (our usual preference) or rice, and with cornbread on the side.
This is the perfect meal for busy Fall weeknights when school is going on and you have a million other things to take care of. I love knowing there’s a complete meal waiting for us in the kitchen!
I hope you enjoy this easy crockpot recipe soon!
More Sausage Recipes
Bangers and Mash
Italian Sausage Pasta
Kielbasa Sausage and Kale Soup
Fried Cabbage With Sausage
Slow Cooker Sausage and Sauerkraut
Slow Cooker Sausage and Green Peppers
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Slow Cooker Sausage and Cabbage
PrintIngredients
- 1 medium sized head of cabbage core removed and chopped
- 3 medium potatoes peeled and chopped
- 3 carrots peeled and chopped
- 1 small onion peeled and chopped
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 pounds Sweet Italian Sausage cut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Instructions
- Add ingredients to the slow cooker in this order: cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onion, minced garlic and Sweet Italian Sausage.
- Pour chicken broth on top of all the ingredients. Sprinkle salt, pepper and brown sugar on top.
- Close lid and cook on LOW for 6 hours.
- Serve and enjoy! You can serve as is or on top of egg noodles or rice.
Diana says
Really love this recipe – I’ve made it many times. Great as is, sometimes I add a little fennel seed. I also like to serve with a drizzle of Mike’s Hot Honey – yum!
Pamela Reed says
Yum, that honey on top sounds amazing! Thanks so much for commenting and stopping by! 🙂
Lee says
Recipe is easy to put together. I’m having this for dinner tonight. Smells delicious.
Chris says
Can I brown the sausage first a little
Pamela says
Hey Chris, you can, but you really don’t need to – it’s just an extra step for you. Hope you enjoy, I’m making this for dinner today too!
Donna says
Making this now and it will be delicious!
Trudith says
Sounds great, I will make it today, I have everything to create this dish. Plan to leave out the brown sugar, not a fan of sugar; the rest is perfect!
I will use red Potatoes, as that is what I have and I always leave the peels on because that is where the vitamins are. I have some spicy sausage in the freezer, will thaw while I get all the veggies chopped up. I speed thaw leave the sausage in package and put in a bowl with cold water. I plan to cook on High one hour, then lower it to Low for 3-5 hours. Depends on how it smells, and my taste test too. I might add some Sweet Peppers to it as well; maybe a Bay leaf.
Why four stars, because I haven’t cooked it yet!
Terri says
Not sure. All the ingredients together will make for a delicious recipe but I had trouble cutting up the cabbage. The cabbage kept falling apart in leaves but I tried to hold them together. And can this be made on high for 4 hours.?
Theresa Perri says
Never tried this with Italian sausage. Usually made this with ribs. Also good. Love it!
Bob Kent says
Very good indeed. It would be a great help, however, if you mentioned the size of the slow cooker you’re using so we can scale our dish accordingly. That’s vital information!
Sefra says
This has become one of my family’s favorites! I keep increasing the recipe because they destroy the whole crock pot every time! We use hot Italian sausage, & it comes out so perfectly. Pair it with a little honey corn bread, & I’m done. Bravo! Such a good dinner!
Jo Anne says
This isn’t my first recipe that I have gotten on line, but it is the first I’ve ever commented on. The recipe looks great, but simple and I will definitely let y’all know how my family likes it. Take care and thank you for your recipe!
Jo Anne says
Well, as I said earlier, my family loves the dish!
My husband had a bit of cheese and some hot sauce added to it, (he LOVES cheese and hot sauce!). Thanks again 👍
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Richard T says
I tried a cabbage recipe from another site which was very unpleasant not only to serve but to eat so l did what l could to not throw out and waste food.
As l had lots of cabbage and Italian sausages, l search for a new cabbage recipe.
When l saw the picture of this recipe it was exactly what l was wanting to make.
As I’m not into sweet omitted the brown sugar and the taste was what l expected great flavor of the garlic and juices of the Italian sausage and herb d’provence.
I spooned a little brown sugar into one bowl to sample what the taste difference was and l wish l added the brown sugar while cooking as the brown sugar just added a whole new level of flavor that was amazing without losing the taste of the other spices.
I definitely will make this to share with friends!
Anthony jr says
Hello can I use beef broth it probably would taste much better
Pamela says
You can definitely use beef broth if you prefer. Enjoy the slow cooker recipe!
Mary Adelsberger says
We absolutely loved this! Thank you!
Lynn says
It’s in the slow cooker as I write. Thanks to all the nice comments, it made me want to try this. Had no Italian sausage so I used weisswurst which is one of my very favourite German sausages. Can’t wait for dinner, I love one pot meals. Looks great (I added half a red pepper too for more color).
Michelle says
This sounds amazing. I don’t have a slow cooker Can it be made on the stove top?How?
Sarah Fezio says
I love this recipe. It is very easy and tastes great. I make it without the brown sugar though. Mine ends up more like a soup but thats ok since it like it like that.!
Pamela says
Hey Sarah, thank you for commenting on this recipe. I’m so happy to hear you like it so much! 🙂
Sandra Blankenship says
I’m anxious to try this recipe. It’s something new for me to cook. My hubby will love it.
Pamela says
Hope you guys enjoy it! It’s one of my husband’s favorite meals! 🙂
Michelle says
I got a huge bag of sausage from a food pantry during this pandemic. There are atleast 50 sausages linked together! I was searching for what to do with them. We usually don’t eat sausage. But I wanted to try to use them since meat is getting scarce during the pandemic. I had everything this recipe calls for at home. Mainly thanks to Misfits Market organic produce delivery.. I was so sceptical on how this would taste. I have say it’s five thumbs up! So tasty and we found our sausage was slightly spicy. So now I hope to find many more ways to use up 46 more sausages.