Instant Pot Sausage and Peppers

Ingredients :

• 5 Italian sausages (mild/sweet or spicy)
• 1 red pepper, sliced
• 1 green pepper, sliced
• 2 cups onion, sliced
• 1/2 tsp garlic salt
• 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1 cup chunky marinara sauce

Instructions :

1. Turn your Instant Pot to Saute High and preheat your pot.
2. Once the pot is heated, drizzle some olive oil in the pot to help prevent the sausage from sticking.
3. Sear the Italian sausages 2-3 mins on each side until starting to brown. You aren’t trying to cook them all the way through, you’re just browning the outside which always increases the flavor while under pressure.
4. Press Cancel to stop cooking on the Saute.
5. Add the uncooked sliced onions and peppers on top of the sausages.
6. Sprinkle the garlic salt, black pepper, and Italian seasoning over the top.
7. Spread the marinara sauce over the onion and pepper mixture with a spatula.
8. Pressure cook the instant pot sausage and peppers for 6 minutes, the peppers and onions should be soft and the Italian sausages will be cooked through.
9. Natural Release for 5 minutes before do a Quick Release.
10. The easy instant pot Italian sausage and peppers are seriously SO delicious just the way they are, but to make them even more amazing you can take them out of your instant pot, add a little shredded cheese on top and broil them until the cheese is melted.

Optional – Add Cheese

1. Sprinkle with your favorite shredded white cheese, I think mozzarella, Monterey Jack, an Italian blend, or Colby Jack would all be great choices. We used mozzarella since that’s what we had in the fridge at the time we made up the slow cooker sausage and peppers recipe.
2. We used about 3/4-1 cup of shredded cheese for 5 sausages.
3. Broil the Italian sausage and peppers mix for 1-2 minutes 4″ from the heat source until the cheese is melted.

Optional – Serve on a bun with cheese

1. Toast the bun and add a little butter to each
2. Add the instant pot sausage and peppers mix to the bun and sprinkle with shredded cheese
3. broil the sausage and peppers in the bun until the cheese is melted, keeping an eye on things so the buns don’t burn. Serve and enjoy!

Notes

**The recipe and video was updated on March 16, 2021 and after 3 tests we removed the chicken broth from the recipe as it made the sauce too runny and the pot still came to pressure just using marinara sauce**

The marinara sauce used in this recipe added enough liquid that adding additional water or chicken broth was NOT necessary.

If you find that there’s still too much liquid in the pot after cooking, use a slotted spoon to scoop out the sausages, peppers, and sauce, and then add as much liquid as is desired.

To lighten up the recipe you can also skip the cheese or use chicken Italian sausage instead of pork.