Pressure Cooker Sausage Soup

Our homemade pressure cooker sausage soup with beans recipe is packed with flavor and can be made with or without kale. It’s the perfect dinner made in your Instant Pot or Ninja Foodi we absolutely love.

Today we made this pressure cooker sausage soup with kale and it was delicious! Are you ready for some more easy Instant Pot recipes to cook this week? It’s the winter months now so I am focused on soup for dinner, eating healthier, and meals with a ton of flavor!

Sausage Soup with Beans

If you’re new to this you’re in for a surprise as it cooks dry beans in no time and pasta in 10 minutes. Want it done faster, you could use canned Great Northern beans instead which would cut the cook time to just ten minutes too but I prefer to start from scratch whenever possible.

Ninja Foodi Sausage Soup

You can use your Crockpot Express, IP or make as a Ninja Foodi recipe too. All electric machines like this basically work the same. Choose dried beans or canned for this one, only difference is the cook time but both are fast.

I used dry beans that were cooked to tender perfection in an hour. Grabbed some fresh kale from the produce department and I was ready. It was a bite of comfort food that we’ll make over and over again. This is how I make Instant Pot soup recipes in a fraction of the time.

How long does it take to cook dry beans to tender in Instant Pot?

If you haven’t yet used your pressure cooker to turn dry beans into tender beans in just about an hour you are going to be amazed (with NO soaking required)!! Until I got this “magic pot” I had never bought a bag like this because it intimidated me, not anymore. Instant Pot Cooking Times for Beans just needs water and less than 60 minutes to get done.

Can you use canned beans?

Yes, you could start with canned beans instead but I personally think it’s pretty cool to go from hard as a rock to tender perfectly cooked bites in really no time at all. If you decided to start with cans you would just start at step 2 instead.

Ingredient Notes

You are going to want to pick up a bag dry Great Northern Beans or 16 oz. canned white beans if you want to make this quicker

Chicken broth or stock is the best liquid to use to add lots of flavor. Don’t use water or it won’t be as flavorful.

Ground spicy Italian sausage is best. Kielbasa cut into dials work or slices of venison sausage is great too, or use half mild and half spicy

You will want a bit of Olive oil or avocado oil is needed to saute the meat in the first step.

You want to add some Crushed tomatoes, canned are easy to find at the store. It creates a bit of texture with a rich sauce

1. Onions should be diced fine, either white or yellow are best
2. Fresh kale I will submerge at the end to soften just a bit to add a lot of texture and nutrition to the dish, this is optional
3. Oregano and Garlic will add flavor

If you decided to use canned beans you could reduce the cook time to 10 minutes, dried takes much longer of course but is incredible.

Do you have to add kale?

What are your thoughts on kale soup? I mean, it is a great way to add nutrition and texture. If you’ve never tried it I encourage you to put a bit into this recipe and give it a real try. You have the ability to add time so that it is very tender, or a bit less time so it adds to the texture – or leave out if you are scared. 😉 You just set to saute and submerge to bubble and soften to your liking at the end.

We enjoy kale in soup (even my kids) as well as making other easy kale recipes like our kale chips in the oven!! You can make just pressure cooker kale as a side dish too, it’s very versatile. Of course you can omit it all together but it’s always good to try things over and over again as you might love it as an adult like I do.

How Long to Cook Sausage Bean Soup in Instant Pot

with canned beans

Steps to make this soup in your Instant Pot: First decide whether you’re going to use dry or canned beans. The only real difference is the cook time. If you want a meal in 10 minutes choose canned and start at step 2 instead.

Soup with dry beans

When using dry beans you’ll do the same steps we did when making  Chili With Dried Beans. You will start by rinsing them to remove debris, then add to the pot with 6 cups of water. Push bean setting for 60 minutes followed by a quick release. Drain tender beans and set aside, then move to step 2 where you add olive oil into pot and set to saute.

When hot add the sausage and diced onions, cook this until sausage is no longer pink on outsides. Now add all other ingredients except for the kale. If you want to add kale add it to the top and gently submerge into the liquid. Pressure cook high function for 10 minutes. Do a quick release when done, stir, and serve with parmesan cheese on top.

A side of rolls or pull apart bread is a great addition too. If you decide to use canned beans, drain them and start at step 3. Now I even have a Crockpot tortellini soup that is similar if you want to give that one a whirl too! I do love my slow cooker and some nights it is a necessity.

Other dry bean pressure cooker recipes you’ll love

Here are a few others we’ve made so far, this one is yet another: They are all easy Instant Pot dinner recipes everyone loves. Pressure cooker bean soup is made from scratch. We love our healthy Instant Pot split pea soup for dinner but my kids love Instant Pot beans and franks even more.

Make our tasty Pressure cooker ham and beans which uses the same Signature Select beans you see here. You can use the same to make our NO soak Instant Pot baked beans

And if you just love sausage and ground sausage like we used here you’ll appreciate our roundup of easy Instant Pot sausage recipes too. You could make this as a Instant Pot hamburger soup as well if you preferred.