Pressure Cooker Sausage and Cabbage

Pressure cooker sausage and cabbage with noodles is a simple dinner idea that’s packed with flavor. Made like Instant Pot cabbage but with some kielbasa or ground meat. Make in your Ninja Foodi too served with parmesan cheese on top and we’re sure you’ll love it too.

We are all about cabbage recipes lately because we’re growing a bunch in our garden this year! Thus, this Instant Pot sausage and cabbage casserole was created the other night. Just one of the many favorite Instant Pot recipes listed on The Typical Mom blog for your family to enjoy too. (affiliate links present)

Instant Pot Sausage and Cabbage

Let’s talk about simple cabbage recipes though shall we? We just love them because they’re so quick and easy! Yes, even my 3 girls will eat just about anything with this undervalued vegetable. Maybe it’s in our genes.

We made a batch of Crockpot cabbage and sausage with potatoes before and it was a hit. This time I thought noodles would be fun to try instead of the other starch. You could use kielbasa sliced into dials instead of ground like we did here too as another option.

Ninja Foodi Sausage and Cabbage Recipe

It is on our roundup of easy Ninja Foodi recipes as well if you happen to have that pressure cooker and air fryer machine. You will use the lid that is not attached to make this one with the high pressure function. You won’t need the other one as we want all the ingredients to be as tender as possible.

Biggest tip to this cooking well is to ensure that your pasta is submerged into the liquid below as much as possible. That way it will become tender the way you want it to. My Grandma ate a lot of it I tell you! As a child I wasn’t so sure but once I got this “magical all in one appliance” I got hooked too when I made this pressure cooker fried cabbage recipe.

It was based off hers written on a piece of paper that of course she cooked on her stovetop for years upon years. I adapted it to be made in my Instant Pot and it was a hit with everyone!  SO, I just kept going with this Instant Pot cabbage and sausage recipe here.

It’s quite simple really, and you only need a few ingredients to make it. Just like our Ninja Foodi cabbage that is simple with just some salt and pepper, you’ll need about 1/2 a head total.

Ingredients

1. Pressure cooker, if you have an Instant Pot I HIGHLY recommend getting a non stick pot
2. Cabbage head, green was used and preferred
3. Ground sausage – we prefer 1/2 spicy Jimmy Dean and 1/2 regular
4. Can of diced tomatoes
5. Noodles – we used penne but any small style would work, optional
6. Chicken broth, or use vegetable or beef, whatever you’d prefer
7. Garlic – minced, jarred
8. Onion – diced

Here are the basic steps of how to cook cabbage under high pressure below: First you’ll want to prep everything which just means you’ll have to dice your onions and cut cabbage into 1″ squares. Everything else is done! Could you use sausage links sliced instead of ground sausage? Yes!!

with Kielbasa

From start to finish this will take you under 30 minutes to make perfectly cooked cabbage and sausage with noodles. If you wanted to slice a kielbasa sausage link into dials or half moons even you could use that instead of the ground meat. Follow the same directions sauteeing them a bit with oil to bring out those pork flavors initially though.

How to Cook Sausage and Cabbage in Instant Pot

• Prep your ingredients such as this is how to cut cabbage into bite size squares which is what we prefer in this case
• Then set your pot to saute and add your olive oil, onions, garlic and sausage.
• Cook until meat is no longer pink, then turn pot off.
• Pour in your can of diced tomatoes and stir. Spread on bottom of pot.
• Add your noodles across the top of this.
• Now pour your broth on your noodles and sprinkle your cabbage leaves on the very top.
  • You can add any seasonings you’d like on the very top now.
  • Using spicy sausage has a ton of flavor so we don’t need anything with this.
• Close and lock the lid.
• Set to high pressure for 4 minutes. After pressure cooking is done do a quick release.
  • The larger the noodles the more time needed. Butter noodles or small sizes would need 3 minutes.

Looking for other good recipes using these ingredients? Here is a roundup of other Instant Pot sausage recipes for dinner that even my kids love.

So if you were asking what can I do with a head of cabbage before, I hope we gave you a few ideas! You could try this pressure cooker cabbage soup!

• I have also made a slow cooker stuffed cabbage soup that was amazing but of course took all day to cook.
• If you want to make a vegetarian pressure cooker sausage and cabbage recipe, then use these pressure cooker cabbage and noodles instructions.

How long is cabbage good for?

• Try not to damage or bruise of your cabbages.
• This can lead to it not lasting as long as it degrades the vitamin C content.
• If cabbage is properly stored it can last from 3 weeks to up to 2 months in your refrigerator. 
• The other half of this cabbage though should be stored in an air tight freezer bag or container until you use it.
  • Once cut it will only last a few days without turning brown on the cut end and starting to break down.