Description
Ryan Seacrest’s Sausage Balls (Instant Pot, Slow Cooker or Oven Baked) is an easy 3 ingredient recipe! You can serve these for breakfast, brunch or dinner. They taste great with a side of pancakes.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound ground breakfast sausage
- 1–2 cups shredded cheddar cheese (grate straight off block, no pre-shredded cheeses)
- 3/4 cup Bisquick baking mix (or homemade see note below)
Instructions
Instant Pot Instructions:
- Pour 1 cup water into bottom of Instant Pot. Place a trivet into the bottom of the Instant Pot.
- In a mixing bowl use clean or gloved hands to mix well the sausage and cheese. Then carefully add in the baking mix, incorporate well but do not overmix.
- Form into golf ball size meatballs. Place the meatballs on top of the trivet.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 5-10 minutes and then move valve to venting and remove lid.
- Use tongs to place the sausage balls on a platter. Serve and enjoy!
Slow Cooker or Oven Instructions:
- In a mixing bowl use clean or gloved hands to mix well the sausage and cheese. Then carefully add in the baking mix, incorporate well but do not overmix.
- Form into golf ball size meatballs. Place the meatballs into slow cooker or on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Cover and and cook on high for 2-3 hours in slow cooker or in a 375° F oven for 20-30 minutes.
- Use tongs to place the sausage balls on a platter. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
To make your own baking mix for this recipe stir together ¾ cup flour, 1 ⅛ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp salt. Then cut in 2 Tbsp of shortening with a fork or pastry blender.
- Category: Sausage
- Method: Instant Pot/Slow Cooker/Oven