Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup | Instant Pot Recipe

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This soup is as easy to make as it is flavorful and filling! Creamy potato soup with smoked beef sausage and cheese. You can’t get much better than that.

Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup - This soup is as easy to make as it is flavorful and filling! Creamy potato soup with smoked sausage and cheese. You can't get much better than that.

Have you ever noticed that when it comes to comfort foods, they usually just aren’t that pretty to look at?

That is because comfort foods were never meant to make you go “ooo” and “ahhh.” Comfort foods are meant to make you sigh and smile.

Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup - This soup is as easy to make as it is flavorful and filling! Creamy potato soup with smoked sausage and cheese. You can't get much better than that.

That is the case with this simple, yet comforting potato soup. It won’t win a beauty contest, but it will win your heart.

To Make this Recipe You will Need:

  • butter
  • smoked beef sausage
  • onion
  • chicken or beef broth
  • half & half
  • russet potatoes
  • parsley
  • black pepper
  • sea salt
  • sharp cheddar cheese
  • Instant Pot

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To begin, press the “sauté” button on your Instant Pot.

Add in butter and beef smoked sausage. Cook it for a few minutes until the sausage is browned, stirring occasionally.

Scoop the sausage into a dish and set it aside for now.

Add in diced onion and cook until it is tender. Press the “cancel” button.

Add in broth, half & half, potatoes, parsley, pepper, and salt. Stir it all together.

Close and seal the Instant Pot. Press the “soup” button and let it run a 30 minute cycle.

When it is done cooking, use an immersion blender and give the soup just a few pulses. Just enough to thicken the broth. This allows the starch in the potatoes to be the thickening agent without needing to add other things.

Press the “sauté” button again. Add in shredded cheese and the browned sausage.

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Stir until the cheese is melted in and the sausage is hot.

Serve topped with some additional shredded cheese.

Enjoy!

Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup - This soup is as easy to make as it is flavorful and filling! Creamy potato soup with smoked sausage and cheese. You can't get much better than that.

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Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup - This soup is as easy to make as it is flavorful and filling! Creamy potato soup with smoked sausage and cheese. You can't get much better than that.

Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup | Instant Pot Recipe

Constance Smith – Cosmopolitan Cornbread
This soup is as easy to make as it is flavorful and filling! Creamy potato soup with smoked beef sausage and cheese. You can't get much better than that.
4.43 from 7 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Entrées – Main Dishes, Soups and Stews
Cuisine American
Servings 6
Calories 952 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Tb butter
  • 1 lb smoked beef sausage, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 3 c chicken or beef broth
  • 1 c half & half
  • 2 1/2 lb russet potatoes, about 8 medium, peeled and cubed
  • 1 teaspoon parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 c shredded sharp cheddar cheese, I use an aged Irish cheddar, divided use

Instructions
 

  • To begin, press the "sauté" button on your Instant Pot.
  • Add in the butter and sausage. Cook it for a few minutes until the sausage is browned, stirring occasionally.
  • Scoop the sausage into a dish and set it aside for now.
  • Add in the diced onion and cook until it is tender. Press the cancel button.
  • Add in the broth, half & half, potatoes, parsley, pepper, and salt. Stir it all together.
  • Close and seal the Instant Pot. Press the "soup" button and let it run the 30 minute cycle.
  • When it is done cooking, use an immersion blender and give the soup just a few pulses. Just enough to thicken the broth. This allows the starch in the potatoes to be the thickening agent without needing to add other things.
  • Press the "sauté" button again. Add in 1 1/2 c of the cheese and the browned sausage.
  • Stir until the cheese is melted in and the sausage is hot.
  • Serve topped with the extra cheese.
  • Enjoy!

Nutrition

Serving: 1cCalories: 952kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 51gFat: 62gSaturated Fat: 28gPolyunsaturated Fat: 26gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 204mgSodium: 1569mgFiber: 5gSugar: 5g

Nutritional information is auto-generated and the accuracy is not guaranteed.

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This recipe was published in 2019, updated in 2023.

2 thoughts on “Easy Cheesy Potato & Sausage Soup | Instant Pot Recipe”

  1. This recipe for potato soup with cheese and sausage sounds delicious. I’m vegetarian so I’ll be using plant based sausage. I’m planning to make this tomorrow night, hence the one star. I’ll update it after I’ve made it. Can the left-overs be frozen?

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