One-Pan Irish Banger Skillet (2024)

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ByLisa LottsPosted onMarch 7, 2022March 9, 2023Updated onMarch 9, 2023

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This easy Irish sausage recipe will be one of your favorites because it’s got all the flavor of a traditional bangers and mash without all the work. It’s essentially a sausage skillet using store-bought Irish bangers, potatoes, cabbage, onion and carrots for an Irish dinner recipe that’s easy enough for a weeknight and tasty enough for your St. Patrick’s Day dinner celebrations.

Table of Contents

1 What are Irish bangers?
2 Why you’ll love this Irish banger skillet:
3 Ingredients:
4 How to make this skillet dinner:
5 What’s the best skillet for making this recipe?
6 How does it taste?
7 Variations and swaps
8 What to serve with it?
9 Other Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day Dinner (and more):
10 Irish Banger Skillet

What are Irish bangers?

Irish bangers (a.k.a. Irish sausage) is also known as British sausage or English sausage, are usually made with pork (but can use beef or even lamb), raw egg and breadcrumbs (also known as rusk). These sausages are meaty and flavorful, seasoned with herbs like thyme, rosemary, marjoram and garlic.

Commonly used to make bangers and mash (sausages and mashed potatoes), these versatile sausages are great for other Irish recipes too.

I use them in this Irish banger skillet with traditional ingredients that you’d normally find in a classic Colcannon.

Why you’ll love this Irish banger skillet:

It doesn’t make a mess of your kitchen, because you only use one skillet for cooking.
It’s quick and easy to make in about 30 minutes.
The recipe uses everyday ingredients.
It’s a hearty, tasty Irish recipe that feeds the whole family.
Irish banger skillet is the perfect dinner idea when St. Patrick’s Day is on a weeknight.
If you need to make more, double the recipe and use a larger 12″ skillet.

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Ingredients:

Irish Bangers – depending on where you live this may be a seasonal item.
Olive Oil – no need to use extra virgin olive oil.
Red Skinned Potatoes – look for small or medium-sized potatoes.
Onion – I use plain yellow onions, but you can also use white onions.
Green Cabbage – you won’t need a whole head of cabbage, about half of a small head is fine.
Carrots – to add a soft sweetness to the skillet dinner.
Chicken Stock or Vegetable Stock (low sodium) – try my Easy Leftover Rotisserie Chicken Stock or this Homemade Vegetable Broth From Scraps
Fresh Thyme – you could also use ½ teaspoon of dried thyme.
Kosher Salt – I recommend Diamond Crystal Kosher salt. If you use Morton’s know that it’s saltier by volume and you may need to use slightly less in this recipe.
Black Pepper – freshly ground will give you the best flavor.

How to make this skillet dinner:

Heat olive oil in a large skillet and add the Irish sausages.
Cook the bangers until they’re browned all over, turning occasionally. Transfer the sausages to a plate.
Add more olive oil and layer in half of the sliced potatoes, onions and cabbage then layer with the other half of the vegetables.
Toss in the carrots and thyme, season with salt and pepper and add 3/4 cup of the stock or broth.
Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Transfer the bangers and any juices back to the skillet, cover and simmer for 10 more minutes until the Irish sausages are cooked through.
Remove the sausages from the pan and cut crosswise into large chunks. Return the sausages to the skillet and serve.

What’s the best skillet for making this recipe?

Use a large, heavy wide skillet with 2-3″ high sides and a tight fitting lid.

For this recipe a 10″ skillet is about right, but if you’re doubling it, use a pan that’s at least 12″ wide and with 3″ sides.

You don’t have to use a nonstick pan for this recipe, although you can.

How does it taste?

Unlike Italian sausage or smoked sausages, Irish pork sausage has a deeply porky flavor that isn’t masked by other seasonings. It’s truly the fatty, unctuous pork that shines through — and frankly, the combination with the simple potatoes and cabbage, make this peasant dish a flavor-dynamo.

The sausages are juicy, meaty and perfectly seasoned to go with the simple vegetables. The flavors of potato onion and cabbage remind me of Colcannon but with less effort and healthier than that traditional recipe (no cream and butter).

This tasty Irish recipe is a complete meal in one pan. What could be better than that? The flavors are simple and straightforward but very satisfying.

My husband and daughter went back three times for more, so if that’s any indication, this sausage skillet is a crowd pleaser.

It’s so good and so simple, you won’t wantto save it for St. Patty’s Day – this will become one of your weekly standards.

I love how this recipe uses simple ingredients, but you can certainly make some swaps and variations to it. Here’s a few ideas.

Variations and swaps

Instead of green cabbage, try Napa cabbage, curly kale, shaved brussels sprouts or chopped escarole lettuce.
Swap larger red skinned potatoes with baby dutch potatoes (they’re small enough to cook completely when simmering in the covered skillet.)
Add crumbled cooked bacon to the skillet.
Add frozen peas just before serving.
Sprinkle with fresh herbs like marjoram or parsley.

What to serve with it?

Guinness or other stout beer
3 Ingredient Drop Biscuits
Soda Bread Recipe
Buttered Peas
McIntosh Applesauce

Other Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day Dinner (and more):

Homemade Corned Beef made with this brisket brine
Irish Bangers and Mash Recipe
One Pot Irish Stout Braised Chicken Thighs
Bangers and Mash Recipe
Irish Stout Lamb Stew
Glazed Corned Beef
Guinness Beef Carbonnade
Colcannon Cakes
Corned Beef Hash
Corned Beef Hash with Brussels Sprouts

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Irish Banger Skillet

This quick and easy all-in-one Irish Sausage Skillet dinner is made with everyday ingredients and is ready to eat in 30 minutes. Use traditional Irish bangers for an authentic flavor.

Author: Lisa Lotts

Course Main Course

Cuisine Irish

Keyword bangers, cabbage, sausage, st. patrick’s day

Dietary Restrictions Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 4

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT:

1 large 10″ skillet with a lid

INGREDIENTS:

US Customary – Metric

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound Irish banger sausage
½ pound red skinned potatoes sliced thinly crosswise
1 medium onion sliced thinly crosswise
½ head green cabbage cored and thinly sliced
3 carrots peeled and sliced on a diagonal into 1/2″ pieces
1½ cups chicken broth or vegetable broth, divided
2 teaspoons fresh thyme divided
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper freshly ground

DIRECTIONS:

In a 10-inch skillet with a tight fitting lid, heat the olive oil over medium high heat. When the oil starts to glisten and moire, carefully add the sausages and cook, turning occasionally until browned. Transfer the sausages to a plate.
Into the pan, over a medium heat, layer in half of the onion, potatoes and cabbage.
Layer the remaining onions, potatoes and cabbage. Sprinkle with carrots and add 1 teaspoon of the thyme.
Pour ¾ cup of broth over the vegetables, sprinkle with salt and pepper and cover tightly. Simmer for 10 minutes.
After the vegetables have cooked for 10 minutes, nestle the sausages into the potato mixture, along with any accumulated juices.
Add the remaining broth and thyme, cover and cook for an additional 10 minutes, or until potatoes and carrots are very tender.
Remove the sausages and cut them into chunks. Return the sausages to the pan and serve.

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NOTES:

Can be doubled – use a 12″ skillet.

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