BEEF & PORK

Instant Pot Sausage and Peppers

Name: Instant Pot Sausage and Peppers
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 2 lb Italian sausage links; 3 bell peppers, cut in strips; 1 yellow onion, sliced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1½ cups marinara sauce; ¼ cup chicken broth; 1 tsp Italian seasoning; Salt to taste

Italian sausage links browned and cooked with peppers and onions in marinara. Built for a roll, happy over rice.

About 35 min 6 servings Easy

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Fair food, without the giant pan

Sausage and peppers is the kind of food I would cross a fairground for. Making it at home usually means a huge pan and the peppers cooking in shifts. The pot takes the whole batch at once, and the peppers go soft in the sauce instead of a puddle of oil.

Brown the sausages first, in two rounds so they actually brown. Everything they leave behind seasons the peppers and onions that cook next. The pot keeps the flavour. You keep the credit.

This one vents right away

When the cook time ends, open the valve and let the steam out right away. Cooks call that a quick release, and it is the right call here. The peppers are already soft, and extra minutes under pressure would turn them to mush.

The sausages come out juicy, the peppers tender, and the marinara does the rest. I pile it into rolls with the peppers on top and eat over the plate. The shirt stays clean that way. Mostly.

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