Italian Sausage is easy to cook in the pressure cooker and is super versatile ingredient in soups, sandwiches, sauces and casseroles.

Check out this list of Instant Pot Italian Sausage recipes and enjoy an easy and delicious meal tonight.

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Italian sausage is one of those items that can really turn a hum-drum meal into something spectacular.

I love to add it to soups and sauces because it brings so much flavor to a dish, and often you don’t really need to add a lot of extra seasonings.

It can be tricky to get whole links of Italian sausage cooked just right. You want the sausage to be cooked through, but you don’t want to burn the casings.

Most often, I turn to ground Italian sausage, because it’s super easy to brown, similar to ground beef.

Using Italian Sausage in Pressure Cooker Recipes

Over the years, as I’ve converted some of my favorite stove top and slow cooker recipes into Instant Pot recipes, I’ve transitioned to making some of our favorite Italian sausage dishes in my pressure cooker.

The best part about cooking Italian sausage in the Instant Pot is that the whole sausages can be cooked from fresh or frozen, and the same is true for the ground sausage as well.

But most often, I use the Instant Pot Saute function to brown the sausage.

Instant Pot Italian Sausage Recipes

Now that you know it’s so easy to cook, you may be wondering what you can make with Italian sausage.

You can easily replace ground beef with Italian sausage in your favorite Italian recipes, but the sky is the limit. Add Italian sausage to sauces, pastas and soups.

You really can’t go wrong!

Use Italian Sausage in these tasty recipes for a delicious and hearty meal your whole family will love. These are some of our favorites–super easy to make, yet full of flavor!

How To Cook Italian Sausages In Instant Pot

While most of the recipes above will give you instructions on how to cook the sausage and when to add it to the recipe, there are times when you may just want a few cooked Italian sausages on hand.

The method for cooking Italian sausages in the pressure cooker couldn’t be any easier.

Place the sausages into the bottom of the Instant Pot insert in a single layer.
Pour in 1/2 cup of water.
Close and seal the lid and cook at High Pressure for 15 minutes followed by a quick release of pressure.
If cooking frozen sausages, increase the time to 20 minutes.

That’s it! Who knew pressure cooking Italian sausage could be so easy!