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.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
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 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.
- Olive oil or avocado oil is needed to saute the meat in the first step.
- 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
- Crushed tomatoes canned are easy to find at the store. It creates a bit of texture with a rich sauce
- Onions should be diced fine, either white or yellow are best
- 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
- Oregano and Garlic will add flavor
- Parmesan cheese is optional, to add to the top when done
- Salt to taste at the end is best
- 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.
Pressure Cooker Sausage Soup Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb sausage, roll, spicy variety is great
- 1/2 small onion , diced
- 16 oz Northern beans, dry or canned can be used
- 6 cup water, if using dry beans this is necessary
- 4 cup chicken broth
- 28 oz crushed tomatoes, I used canned
- 1 tbsp garlic, I used minced, jarred
- 1 tsp oregano, dried
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, for topping, optional
- 3 cup kale, fresh, cut into chunks
Instructions
- If using dry Northern beans put them in your Instant Pot with 6 c. water and set to the bean setting for 60 minutes, do a quick release, drain and set aside. If you’re using canned you can skip this step, I used dry beans myself.
- Set your pressure cooker to saute and add a bit of olive oil, your sausage and diced onion. Cook until sausage is no longer pink. Turn pot OFF/Cancel.
- Add spices and mix with meat and onions.
- Pour in can of crushed tomatoes, beans either canned or dry (that you “cooked” earlier and drained), and chicken broth. Stir.
- Cut stem off fresh kale and cut into chunks (2×2″ or so).
- Put into pressure cooker and push down into the liquid, gently mix a bit so they are submerged. Close lid and steam valve.
- Set Instant Pot to high pressure for 10 minutes (8 minutes if you want your kale to have a bit of “bite” to it and not be super soft).
- Do a quick release and can serve with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese on top if desired.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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.
What do you mean by “Close lid and steam valve.” Do you mean, set the valve to “sealing”?
Close to sealing yes
I am looking to use vegetarian “sausage” instead of regular. Do you know if the sausage should be added towards the end? I didn’t know if it would totally break down as it cooks very fast.
I soaked my beans overnight. How long do I need to cook them before adding the remaining ingredients? Thank you!
I haven’t done it that way but if I were to venture a guess I would add your beans, cover with water and put in for 5 min with natural release for 15 min or so. Let me know if that works well.
What an easy, healthy meal! My entire family loved it, this recipe will be going into my recipe files.
So glad you loved it.
I wish I had a bowl of this right now! Definitely adding this to my Instant Pot lineup!
All of these ingredients are PERFECT together! Sausage, Northern beans, and kale — all the yes’s! Not to mention the crazy fast cook time. Such a dinnertime win!
Yes, crazy fast.