If you have never had nacho cheese soup with sausage yet it is spicy bowl of comfort food you will love if you love nachos. We made in a pressure cooker and our kids fell in love!
I’m all about cheese and a bit of spice, so how could you go wrong with this meal thought. It turned out delicious!! It is definitely one of my favorite soup Instant Pot recipes on cold evenings as well as during a Super Bowl party!
What is Nacho Soup?
So I had never had this before but heard about it in passing and thought it had to be my next pressure cooker soup! Essentially it tastes like the melted cheese on chips but thinner to make more of a meal out of it.
You can change it up quite a bit to your liking. Use Jimmy Dean spicy ground sausage to make it really spicy, ground beef for a milder meal or ground turkey is lower in fat. We have even tweaked it with more flavorful liquids like our Instant Pot beer cheese soup.
Ingredient Notes
Ground beef or spicy Jimmy Dean ground sausage is what we use. Or this is how to thaw Instant Pot frozen ground beef in case you forgot to take it out the night before. Once you have it thawed the cook time below will be the same.
The base of this starts with a can of Campbell’s Fiesta nacho cheese condensed soup. If you cannot find that you can use cheddar cheese condensed soup too as an alternative.
Petite diced tomatoes is used too to add a bit more texture and flavor into your bowl. I like the smaller canned version but either way really.
Diced chiles, you can use any heat level, I use medium and it’s perfect but if you don’t want much spice use mild.
Milk – 2% or whole works best to make it a bit thicker, fat free works too if that is what you have Cheddar cheese is a must of course – sharp is best if you ask me. The fiesta nacho cheese soup isn’t as yellow as the “regular” version so the color at the end looks like this.
Taco seasoning, add 1 packet or you can make your own and use 1 oz. of that to add a whollop of flavor when you pressure cook the meat with it.
Tips
I don’t drain the diced tomatoes either so that lends itself to a bit of a reddish tint. When I brown the meat with my diced onions I don’t bother to drain the grease. That part it is up to you and you, can drain it if you wish.
I tend to buy low fat beef so there isn’t much grease left. What little there is lends to added flavor in my opinion so I choose not to. I follow this same method when making my Instant Pot spaghetti too…but like any recipe do what you choose. It turns out really beefy and filling, with a side of chips it fed the 5 of us well.
Nacho Cheese Soup Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 can condensed fiesta nacho cheese soup, or cheddar cheese soup, 10 3/4 oz.
- 1 lb ground sausage, spicy jimmy dean is best, could use ground beef
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pkg. taco seasoning, 1 oz.
- 1 can chiles, diced, canned, 4 oz.
- 1 can diced tomatoes, petite 14.5 oz.
- 1.5 cup milk, 2% is best
- 2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded, sharp is best
- 1 small onion, diced
Instructions
- Turn your Instant Pot to saute.
- Add your olive oil and ground beef and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add your diced onion and continue cooking until most of pink in beef is gone and onions have softened slightly. Turn your Instant Pot off (important step so it can cool and doesn’t display burn message later).
- In a bowl whisk together your cheese soup and milk until creamy.
- Add soup mixture.
- Add all other ingredients (except your shredded cheese) into your pot and stir until mixed well.
- Put your lid on and push the soup button, normal setting, for 10 minutes.
- Do a slow release and lift lid carefully.
- Stir in 1.5 c. shredded cheddar cheese until melted.
- Serve with tortilla chips on the side, top with additional cheese and chives if desired.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Of course all of the recipes I make on The Typical Mom are simple….that’s just the way I roll. I now use it several times a week to make Instant Pot dinner recipes in less than 20 minutes. This is one of our favorite Instant Pot soups, so once you’re done trying this you should try these other easy pressure cooker recipes too:
Other family favorite Instant Pot Meals You’ll love
Pressure cooker cheesy chicken spaghetti is so good I tell you with the other meat. We make this Instant Pot cheeseburger macaroni with the same meat so I will grab twice as much when I am meal planning. Or try our cheesy Pressure cooker broccoli cheese soup with fresh vegetable florets
What to serve on the side
Serve with our air fryer garlic bread or tortilla chips on the side and enjoy friends!
This nacho soup could not have been easier- and it was so delicious! Definitely going on our regular rotation!
I have made this three times. The whole family loves it. We eat it with Tostitos scoops chips. I never get a burn message but I do constantly stir the meat while cooking it. I dont know if that makes a difference. Its ine of my favorite recipes..
Added some cooked tortellini in one batch, and added ravioli in another batch.
Make sure to add cooked paste after soup cooks.
I made this twice and got burn messages. 2nd time I added 1/4 cup extra water and still got the burn message. The soup is wonderful; however not sure if I will make it again.
Are you pushing the off button as directed after cooking the meat so the pot can cool down? If not it will trigger that message because it thinks it is overheating even when it is not burning anything.
My instant pot also gave me a burn message when I made it. It turned my pot off immediately, but the soup was still good. Only the ground beef was a little burnt, next time I think i would make this on the stove top instead.
Tasted great! Only criticism is that I think you need to drain the fat after browning the meat. Maybe that was self explanatory, but I was following the recipe to a T.
That is preference, yes draining will leave it less greasy. Some people prefer to leave in.
The Instant Pot gave me “burn” as the message. I turned it off immediately. Since everything had been cooked prior to putting it into the pot, I was comfortable serving as it was. It tasted good but I’m not sure if I’ll try again.
Is there a way to make this without beef? I don’t eat meat, can tolerate chicken some. This just looks so good!