Pressure Cooker Sausage Soup

Homemade pressure cooker sausage soup with dry beans 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.

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!

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.

If you’re new to this you’re in for a surprise as it cooks dry beans in no time and pasta like Instant Pot spaghetti in 10 minutes. Want it done faster, you could use canned Northern beans instead which would cut the cook time to just ten minutes too.

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

I went shopping today at Albertsons in Boise to grab a few items for dinner tonight and tomorrow night. They also had a healthy eating event there which meant there were lots of samples to taste!!

Instant Pot Sausage Bean Soup

One thing I love about making Instant Pot soup recipes is that it takes a fraction of the time to meld all those wonderful flavors together. And starting with dry beans is no problem at all!

Have you used your pressure cooker to turn dry beans into tender beans in just about an hour yet??!! I hadn’t until I got this “magic pot” and was amazed at just how easy it was to make everything homemade.

Of course you can used 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. NO soaking required anymore if you have this fancy multi cooker. 😉

Ingredient Notes

1. 1 bag dry Great Northern Beans or 16 oz. canned white beans if you want to make this quicker
2. 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.
3. Olive oil or avocado oil is needed to saute the meat in the first step.
4. 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
5. Crushed tomatoes canned are easy to find at the store. It creates a bit of texture with a rich sauce
6. Onions should be diced fine, either white or yellow are best
7. 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
8. Oregano and Garlic will add flavor
9. Parmesan cheese is optional, to add to the top when done
10. Salt to taste at the end is best
11. Red pepper flakes is optional, for heat

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.

Instant Pot Kale Soup

What are your thoughts on kale soup? I mean, kale added into your soup recipe? 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 of the sausage soup recipe.

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 to Make Pressure Cooker Sausage Soup

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 4.

with dry beans

When I was creating this recipe I used my printable Instant Pot cooking times for beans in order to gauge how long Northern beans would take to get tender, it really doesn’t take long and it’s better to use dry beans in my opinion if you have a little time. Either way it is amazing

When using dry beans you’ll 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 for now. 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.