Make a quick fix dinner of sausages and potatoes topped with an herbed sour cream sauce. This sausage and potatoes recipe is super versatile, allowing you to mix up the herbs with what you have on hand.
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Our month in France was pretty fabulous. I finally finished posting the story of our European vacation, and I’m dying to go back. We had some great adventures as a family — and ate some fabulous meals.
Since we had access to a kitchen for almost all our time in France, I got to go shopping frequently in French grocery stores and figure out how to make food I knew my kids would eat. While they did expand their horizons, there were requests for burritos and burgers from time to time.
One of the items most frequently in my grocery basket were chipolatas. Similar to an Italian sausage in flavor yet the shape of breakfast links, we enjoyed these sausages often in Collioure and in Paris, usually with boiled potatoes and a salad.
When we had lunch with the Benoits, Jen prepared a beautiful feast for us with grilled chicken, sausage, and potatoes. She added this delicious sauce on the side. I’ve been quizzing her from afar so that I could add it to my own repertoire.
Shopping Tips
Jen makes it with fromage blanc, something we can’t easily source here in the States. I’ve substituted sour cream which is super yummy. Buy a few extra when you find it on sale. It stays good in the fridge for awhile.
This supper is simple, but so delicious! It comes together quickly in less than 30 minutes. If you can find new potatoes, use those so you don’t have to peel them. Mine have been growing eyes faster than I can use them, so I’ve been peeling.
Keep an eye open for sausages on sale and stock the freezer when you find a good price!
Ingredients
- Boiled Potatoes – baby potatoes or russets, peeled and quartered
- Sausages – If you can find chipolatas, great! If not, use Italian sausage links, bratwurst, or another fresh sausage
- Sour cream
- Basil
- Onion
- Seasoning (salt, pepper, and cayenne)
How to make sausage and potatoes
- Cook the potatoes. In a pot of salted boiling water, you want to cook the potatoes in 20 minutes.
- Prep Ingredients. In a nonstick skillet, add the sausages and enough water to mostly cover. Cook until the sausages are cooked through and the water has started to evaporate. Continue cooking the sausages until they’ve browned lightly.
- Make Sour cream sauce. Meanwhile, stir together the sour cream, herbs, onion. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and pinch cayenne.
- Serve it up! Serve the potatoes and sausages with the sour cream sauce on the side.
Helpful tips for making this sausage and potatoes dinner
- Use potatoes you have. If you have large potatoes you can use those. Just be sure to quarter them. Or if you have small ones, those work as well!
- Cook until fork tender. You want to make sure to boil the potatoes until they are fork tender. This will take about 20 minutes and you want to be able to pierce them easily with a fork.
- Season to taste. We used a combination of salt, pepper, and cayenne. But if you don’t like things spicy then you can omit the cayenne. Or add more if you want to kick it up a notch!
Variations to this sausage and potatoes dinner
- Use whatever potatoes you have. Red, small, Yukon. Whatever!
- Make it low carb. Use cauliflower instead of the potatoes.
- Make it lighter. Use greek yogurt instead of sour cream.
- Try a different sausage. No Italian sausages? Try chicken sausage, smoked sausage or turkey kielbasa instead.
What goes with sausages for dinner?
Of course you can serve this with just the potatoes and sour cream sauce. But you could also pair this with a salad. Like a fresh garden salad, or this Quick and Easy Caesar Salad Recipe. Or try with Roast Vegetables.
A spicy alternative to the sour cream sauce would be a bit of remoulade. That would be quite tasty and just as easy to make!
How to make this good and cheap:
Here are some of the strategies you can use to make this recipe more economical:
- Stock up on ingredients when they are on sale. Sausage is the big ticket item in this dish. Stock up when you see a good sale.
- Shop at Costco. When I did my big grocery store showdown, I learned that Costco has the best price for a lot of the things I buy, including Aidell Chicken and Apple Sausage. Costco can really save you money if done right.
Tools I use for this recipe:
Sausage and Potatoes with Sour Cream Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 lb baby potatoes scrubbed or large potatoes, cut into quarters
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- salt
- black pepper
- 8 Italian sausage links
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1-2 teaspoon Italian Seasoning Mix
- 1 tablespoon onion finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. In a bowl toss the potatoes with oil and season with salt and pepper. Lay out on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Add the sausages to the baking sheet.2 lb baby potatoes, 2 tablespoon olive oil, salt, black pepper, 8 Italian sausage links
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until the potatoes are tender and the sausages reach an internal temperature of 160 F for pork, 165F for poultry.
- Meanwhile, stir together the sour cream, Italian seasoning, and onion.1 cup sour cream, 1-2 teaspoon Italian Seasoning Mix, 1 tablespoon onion
- Serve the potatoes and sausages with the sour cream sauce on the side.
Notes
- Use a different type of sausage.
- Vary the seasoning mix in the sour cream.
- Roast another kind of vegetable, like sweet potatoes or broccoli.
Laura Riddle
Ooh we lived and cooked in Paris yummy. Best food ever!
Jen Beaman
Actually, I was thinking it would make a great cookbook title “Practical Family Food That No One Objects To” 🙂
Stephanie M.
Such a simple yet filling meal. We have taken to eating turkey sausage and there is such a variety including one called Sweet Italian sausage which tastes really good. I’m going shopping in the next day or two and I’m going to pick up some sausage; I already have a lot of potatoes in the fridge and I’m going to make this.
Also, I wanted to tell you that your post the other day about fajitas inspired me so I made them and they were a huge hit. I don’t cook too much Mexican food but I went all out and made a “fajita bar” with bowls and platters all over the table with all of the fixings. I also made a fiesta black bean salad. I always make bean salad out of white cannellini beans or red kidney beans so this was something different. I never had black beans before but they were just as good as the others. I mixed them with corn, chopped green bell pepper, chopped grape tomatoes, chopped red onion, salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. The whole dinner was a success and I’m glad I tried something new. So thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
Jessica Fisher
Fun! So glad to hear that the fajita bar was a hit. Yummy!
Jen Beaman
I love this! Such a practical family meal that no one objects to !
Jessica Fisher
I’m quoting you. Yes, that’s exactly it!