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Smoked Sausage & Tortellini Skillet

Easy 30 minute weeknight dinner? Check! This Smoked Sausage & Tortellini Skillet packs a whole lot of flavor into just a few simple ingredients.

We’re 30 minute weeknight meal-ing it up again this week, with an easy and savory Smoked Sausage & Tortellini Skillet dinner. Let’s just keep things super simple today by using refrigerated tortellini and jarred pesto sauce, because — well, I don’t know about you, but it’s been an insanely busy week over here.

Today’s dinner brings the pesto-y flavors of summer into a long winter’s day, as we mash up that memory of warmer days gone by with all of the hearty comfort food fun of a cast iron skillet recipe.

tortellini skillet with pesto and smoked sausage

When you choose ingredients that pack a lot of flavor, you don’t need a lot of them to complete your meal. Keep it simple, keep it easy, and keep your family satisfied with a whole cast iron skillet full of sausage, tortellini, and veggies.

Smoked Sausage & Tortellini Skillet

Priano pesto from ALDI

Ingredients

1 Tbsp olive oil
9 oz three cheese refrigerated tortellini (I used tri-colored)
14 oz smoked sausage or Polska kielbasa, sliced into half moons
8 oz baby bella mushrooms, roughly chopped
8 oz broccoli crowns, cut into small florets
1/4 medium yellow onion, diced
1 tsp minced garlic (about 2 cloves)
1/3 cup prepared pesto
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan

Directions

Slice sausage into half moons, and cut up the mushrooms, onions, and garlic. Start the olive oil heating in a 12″ cast iron skillet over medium heat when you’re almost done cutting up the veggies.

Start water boiling for tortellini. Cook tortellini per package directions, then drain.

skillet of sausage broccoli and mushrooms

While the pasta is cooking, add the sausage to the skillet and brown over medium heat for three minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the onion, broccoli, mushrooms, and garlic and continue to saute for another eight minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.

Turn off the heat under the pan and stir in the cooked tortellini and pesto until nicely combined. Sprinkle everything with shredded Parmesan.

Skillet full of tortellini sausage and veggies with Parmesan on top

Move your skillet onto the middle rack of the oven and broil on high for four minutes to melt the Parmesan across the top. Serve.

Punch up basic tortellini with smoked sausage, pesto, and veggies!

Smoked sausage & tortellini skillet with pesto and Parmesan is an easy 30 minute weeknight dinner recipe.

This one dish meal has it all, all in one, and it’s so garlicky pesto-y good. We enjoyed ours with toasted sourdough, but you could substitute salad to lighten things up a little. I used broccoli and mushrooms because I had them on hand, but you could also swap out different veggies as desired. Take this basic flavor-packed cast iron skillet full of comfort food, and make it your own!

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Smoked Sausage & Tortellini Skillet

Easy 30 minute weeknight dinner? Check! This Smoked Sausage & Tortellini Skillet packs a whole lot of flavor into just a few simple ingredients.
Course dinner
Cuisine skillet
Keyword 30 minute meals, cast iron skillet, easy recipe, pesto, smoked sausage, tortellini, weeknight dinner
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 9 oz refrigerated three cheese tortellini I used tri-colored
  • 14 oz smoked sausage or Polska kielbasa sliced into half moons
  • 8 oz baby bella mushrooms roughly chopped
  • 8 oz broccoli crowns cut into small florets
  • 1/4 medium yellow onion diced
  • 1 tsp minced garlic about 2 cloves
  • 1/3 cup prepared pesto
  • 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan

Instructions

  • Slice sausage into half moons, and cut up the mushrooms, onions, and garlic. Start the olive oil heating in a 12″ cast iron skillet over medium heat when you’re almost done cutting up the veggies.
  • Start water boiling for tortellini. Cook tortellini per package directions, then drain.
  • While the pasta is cooking, add the sausage to the skillet and brown over medium heat for three minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the onion, broccoli, mushrooms, and garlic and continue to saute for another eight minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
  • Turn off the heat under the pan and stir in the cooked tortellini and pesto until nicely combined. Sprinkle everything with shredded Parmesan.
  • Move your skillet onto the middle rack of the oven and broil on high for four minutes to melt the Parmesan across the top. Serve.

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Recipe Rating




Natalie

Thursday 11th of March 2021

This was so good! Made it for company last week and making it again for company today. You are so talented at making meal plans. Our family thanks you!

rachel

Friday 12th of March 2021

Thanks! I'm happy that they've been useful, and hope your company enjoys. :)

Lissa B

Wednesday 12th of February 2020

This recipe is definitely gonna be a go-to favorite. Even the kids that don't eat anything ate this and loved it. Thank you so much for these Aldi meal plans. They have changed everything for our family and how we do dinner. I'm so grateful!

Amy Karas

Tuesday 4th of February 2020

Made this tonight! It was a hit, even my picky eaters loved it!

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