Instant Pot Sausage Gravy Recipe

Instant Pot sausage gravy is perfect to make at Thanksgiving or Christmas to serve with fluffy biscuits and gravy for breakfast or dinner. Use leftover meat or fresh spicy ground sausage for this.

Easy Sausage Gravy

If you’re like me and use your IP or Ninja Foodi on a daily basis, you’ll love this tasty side dish. It is so good (and EASY) that you may never make it on your stovetop ever again. It may not be a method your Grandmother would understand but in this day and age this is how we can make everything faster!

I mean yes you can buy this stuff, plain, packaged with tons of preservatives and pour that over your mashed potatoes but why? Just don’t friends. From scratch really isn’t that much more work and is so much better.

Ninja Foodi Sausage Gravy

There are several types of ground sausage. Jimmy Dean is by far my favorite one to use, they have three main types. Regular, maple and HOT are usually what you’ll find next to the bacon at your grocery store. If I have my druthers I really like half a roll of hot and half of regular.

Then I package the other halves up in a freezer bag and save the rest to make Instant Pot sausage and rice. It’s super versatile for sure. If you bought links and removed the casings you could use a type of breakfast sausage if you preferred.

1. Ground sausage
   1. for a vegetarian option try our onion gravy recipe
   2. or chicken dripping gravy is to die for too
2. Beef broth or chicken broth if you prefer
3. Flour to thicken it up
4. Milk
5. Butter

Salt and pepper can be added to taste. I recommend doing this at the very end because the pork already has a lot of flavors going on and typically you don’t need any.

Instant Pot Sausage Gravy with Chicken Broth

As far as the liquid you use to thin this out that is up to you. I would not choose water, that has no flavor. You could use beef too if you wanted too. Typically I use what I have in the fridge that is already open or in the pantry.

First you’re going to want to saute your Instant Pot sausage. Since there is a decent amount of fat in it you won’t need any oil or anything. You could add some fresh diced onions in with this if you wanted as well. Once it is browned you’ll want to turn it off and deglaze pressure cooker with a wooden spatula.

To do this really well just add a touch of your broth to scrape the stuck on pieces off of the bottom. This will avoid your pot displaying the burn notice on the screen.

You can leave a little bit of pink on the edges as you see here because this isn’t the end of the cooking time overall.

How do you thicken sausage gravy?

Just sprinkle in all purpose flour or cornstarch as an alternative. Stir so the meat is nicely coated but it isn’t all clumped into one area.

You will use two functions for this. Saute and pressure cook on high at the end with a quick release. If you are serving a crowd you can leave it in the pot with the lid off when done, and leave it plugged in. This will continue to warm the contents slightly if you want to keep it available for a good hour.

Make all your other Instant Pot side dishes and this will be fine waiting for those to be done, don’t worry.

Instant Pot Sausage Gravy Recipe

Then milk and beef broth are used to thin it out. Amounts shown below are recommended however you can adjust them to your liking of course. Here is a quick step by step but more detailed ingredient amounts etc are listed in the printable recipe card below as well

1. Spray inside of pot with non stick cooking spray for easier clean up. Set Instant Pot to saute. Add 1 tbsp of your butter and let melt.
2. Brown the sausage and cook until no longer pink. Add remaining butter and allow to melt.
3. Turn pot off and use wooden spoon or spatula to scrape stuck on meat off bottom of pot.
4. Add beef broth, flour, salt and pepper and stir until meat is coated, then add milk.

Close lid and steam valve and turn the Instant Pot to high pressure for 2 minutes followed by a quick release. Serve. Use a ladle to serve gravy in the Instant Pot on top of refrigerated or baked biscuits.

Isn’t that quick and easy?? Then it is time to serve it over homemade air fryer biscuits which we have made in the air fryer quite often! You just load a few up on to a plate and add the sausage YUM over the top with a fork. You will love this recipe when it is chilly and snowing outside for sure!

Having a get together and want it to stay warm longer? I would transfer this into a slow cooker and set to warm. Those lids are easier to stay on and see inside with the glass lid.

How do you heat gravy in an Instant Pot?

If you have leftovers, store them in a sealed container in your fridge for up to a few days. You can use your microwave to reheat or your pressure cooker too. Just set to saute and warm right in the pot. I would spray with a little non stick spray before you add it for an easier cleanup later.

Instant Pot Sausage and Gravy

This isn’t the only type we have made for the holiday seasons though. Without the meat you can make a smoother version with your turkey drippings that is quite amazing. If you want to try that, follow our pressure cooker gravy recipe. That is better over meat to add moisture before serving to your loved ones.