Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup is a hearty recipe made in your Instant Pot, perfect for an easy family friendly dinner. Mild Italian sausage, rice, vegetables and a light tomato and beef broth come together for a rich and delicious meal everyone will love!

Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup

Name: Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1 lb. mild Italian sausage; 2 bell peppers (your choice of colors, diced); 1 large yellow onion (diced); 2 tsp. fresh diced garlic; 24 oz. marinara; 1 tsp. sea salt; 1 tsp. dried Italian seasoning; 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce; 14.5 oz. can fire roasted diced tomatoes; 1 c. dry Basmati rice; 8 c. beef broth; 8 oz. shredded cheese (Provolone, Cheddar, etc.)

This Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup is all of the best parts of stuffed peppers turned into soup form! I have made this soup on multiple occasions in my Instant Pot for family and friends and it has been a hit all around. I made it over Thanksgiving weekend for my family for something a little lighter after a big turkey meal the day before. My mom turned her nose up at it and asked why I always have to make weird stuff. I insisted it wasn’t weird, as it is a tomato, sausage, rice and veggie soup essentially!

She begrudgingly tried a bite of it and to her surprise she was a big fan! The rest of my annoying family made similar comments to the effect of “I was surprised that I liked it so much”. They can never just give you a compliment without the backhanded assumption that they aren’t going to like the “weird things” I cook. I swear…

You can keep this Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup dairy free and a little lighter by leaving off the shredded cheese on top, but that really finishes it off nicely in my opinion. I have had it with shredded Provolone, Cheddar, Farmer’s cheese and every last one of them was a wonderful finish to the hearty soup.

A loaf of crusty bread is an absolute must for me with any soup recipe, so I was sure to bake up a variety of bread to serve with it. This Pressure Cooker Stuffed Pepper Sausage Soup make a very large batch, serving 10 people, so it is a great meal for a crowd. I use my 6 quart Instant Pot to make this recipe, but when I was using my mom’s 5 quart IP, it wasn’t quite big enough. I left out just enough beef broth until it reached the max line. After it was all cooked and the pressure was released, I just added in the remaining beef broth to the pot. It worked like a charm.

If you aren’t serving a big family or crowd, you can freeze up this soup for another meal at a later time. The first time I made the soup for just myself and my husband, I packed up individual servings in these food storage containers for easy meals when I am on maternity leave. They are microwave safe so I can just grab one from the freezer and let it thaw in the refrigerator. When I am ready for a quick meal in between dealing with two babies, I can nuke it in the microwave. That is as far as I have gotten with meal prepping for these babies though!

If you don’t want to deal with such a large batch of soup, you could certainly cut the recipe in half as well and keep the cooking time the same.

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