Instant Pot Smoked Sausage, Green Beans and Potatoes—the easiest meal with the most amazing results. Smoked sausage, fresh green beans, cubed potatoes and a couple of seasonings are cooked together quickly in your electric pressure cooker for an easy one pot, dump and press start meal.
Instant Pot Smoked Sausage, Green Beans and Potatoes
My cajun version of this recipe is so popular and so tasty I decided to make another version that’s basic and doesn’t have the cajun spice. What resulted was a most amazing dinner with very little effort or ingredients.
Start by cubing up some potatoes. I used yellow yukon gold potatoes but it doesn’t really matter what kind you use. You can use red potatoes or Russets as well. You can peel them or not. I didn’t peel mine. Then wash and trim some fresh green beans. For sake of ease, buy a bag of fresh green beans that has been washed and trimmed already. That’s what I did. I have not tried this recipe with frozen green beans. I believe that they would come out a little too mushy. But you can try it if you want! Finally take a package of smoked sausage and slice it into quarter inch slices. Smoked sausage can be found by the other cured meats at the grocery store. It is pre-cooked and doesn’t require you to brown it. It comes in many different flavors and options. I chose a beef smoked sausage.
Then all you do is add a little water into the Instant Pot followed by your prepared ingredients and then sprinkle in pepper, seasoned salt, garlic powder and finally top with a little butter.
You’ll only use a pressure cook time of 1 minute(!) for this recipe. The reason? The pot takes a while to come to pressure and is cooking the potatoes and green beans the whole time. One minute is definitely enough time for the food to cook through, I promise!
I can’t wait to make this one again really soon! We all ate it until it was gone. No leftovers at all!
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What Pressure Cooker Did You Use?
To make Instant Pot Smoked Sausage, Green Beans and Potatoes I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*. I love this Instant Pot because it has the yogurt making function which I use almost weekly. It has two pressure settings (high and low), and there are also little slots in the handles so that you can rest the lid there instead of putting it down on your counter-top.
Instant Pot Smoked Sausage, Green Beans and Potatoes
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 minute
- Total Time: 16 minutes
- Yield: 4–6 servings 1x
Description
The easiest meal with the most amazing results. Smoked sausage, fresh green beans, cubed potatoes and a couple of seasonings are cooked together quickly in your electric pressure cooker for an easy one pot, dump and press start meal.
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 (12 oz) package of pre-cooked smoked sausage, sliced into quarter in pieces
- 1 ½ pounds yellow, red or Russet potatoes, washed and cubed
- 1 pound fresh green beans, washed and trimmed
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp seasoned salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 4 Tbsp butter, cut into 8 pieces
Instructions
- Pour the water into the bottom of the Instant Pot. Layer ⅓ of the sausage, ⅓ of the potatoes and ⅓ of the green beans. Repeat 2 more times.
- Sprinkle in the pepper, seasoned salt and garlic powder. Add in the butter pieces on top.
- Cover the pot and secure the lid. Make sure the valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 1 minute. When the time is up let the pot sit for 3-5 minutes and then move the valve to venting. Remove the lid.
- Gently stir. Scoop onto serving plates and enjoy.
Notes
You can use frozen green beans in the place of fresh.
- Category: Sausage
- Method: Instant Pot
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I cook fresh green beans in my instant pot. They came out hard. I sure do not like them that way… Did I do something wrong
Did you just cook green beans by themselves? Or in this dish? I am not sure what went wrong! Next time you could put the beans in first and keep them closest to the heating element. That should ensure soft beans.
Very good but added onions, next time I’ll even add mushrooms, I also added small amount of liquid smoke to the water for flavor.
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I like the idea of liquid smoke!
Leftover deer sausage in the fridge, a bag of new potatoes I needed to use, and then my sister dropped off a bag of freshly picked green beans. A Pinterest click later and mmm mmm goodness followed! This was DELISH! Even my four year old ate it without question. I added some onion and sort of combined it with the Cajun version. Half Cajun spice, half seasoning salt. I used half butter and half bacon grease. So good I just had to drop back by and say thanks!
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Yum Lori! I’m glad you found this recipe! It sounds like your version was a success 👏
I just had to tell you how much we loooooove this recipe! I’ve shared it with everyone I know who has an instant pot. I usually add a little more chicken broth because we like it saucy/stew-y, and the liquid gets so flavorful. One other fun adaptation — I’ve made this substituting about a pound of chopped collard greens for the green beans — basically you just stuff as many collard greens into the pot as you can, since they cook down so much. My husband said he might like it even more with the greens!
Oh wow I HAVE to try it with collard greens! Thanks for the idea!
I’ve made this recipe a couple of times and really like it. Plus it has passed the “wife” test, so kudos there. The last time I made this I used sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes and it came out great as well. The sweet potatoes seem to add an extra flavor level to an already great recipe.
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I love sweet potatoes. I’m going to try that next time!
What meat would go good with this other than smoke sausage. We aren’t a fan of it.
Chunks of chicken (seasoned) would work.
Would the time be the same with the chicken, and are the potatos mushy
The chicken should be cooked through as long as it is small bite size pieces of breasts. And the potatoes are soft but not mushy.
I’ve only had my IP maybe a couple of months. This was the first dish I made. My husband loves it. I am now making it for the 3rd time. And yes, we, mostly my husband, ate the whole thing, both times, and I’m sure we will again, tonight. Thanks for the recipe.
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Haha! That is awesome Margie. Thank you for sharing 🙂
We make the foil packet version of this with corn on the cob… if I were to add the corn would I add time? Or keep everything the same?
The corn is the only way I can get my kids to eat it so I can’t remove their favorite part 😅
Ha! Yes corn is so popular with the kids isn’t it? I would keep the same time.
Potatoes, sausage and green beans are some of my favorite foods, so I was dying to try this. Oh my goodness, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! My husband followed the instructions exactly, except I did add probably a quarter pound more potatoes and the bag of green beans I had was 1.75 pounds. He did 5 minutes for the release, I would say 4 would have been better, the potatoes and green beans were just a little overdone, but really not even bad- if you like your veggies soft 5 is perfect. I am so happy about this recipe but sad to admit that my husband and I ate the entire thing tonight just the two of us LOL. You won’t be sorry!!!
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Haha! This is great Rebecca! So glad you both loved it 🙂
What about if the kielbasa’ is frozen ? I just have potatoes can greens and frozen sausage
I would throw it in there frozen all in one piece with the potatoes and then slice it up after it has cooked. Or thaw it in the microwave. add in the canned beans after the pressure cooking time is up.
When I was growing up my mother always put corn in with her green beans and potatoes. That’s how I make this meal to this day. Green beans, potatoes, and corn. Those three ingredients go so well together!!!!
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Sounds great to me! I’ll try it that way next time
Made this tonight. It was so good and the hubby was definitely impressed.
This is only the 2nd time I’ve used my IP…love it.
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Awesome Natalie! Great work! Keep making recipes 🙂
I’m completely new at this. Do you just put everything down in the water? Or do you use the little metal thing? Sorry I don’t know the name! Haha Thanks
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Hi Sara, You can just add it into the pot instead of using the trivet!
Delicious! But 1 minute is not long enough! I went 5.
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Interesting! And the potatoes and green beans held up?
It is in the pot! Will keep you posted!
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Easy, quick comfort food and so yummy.
Can you believe you cook it for 1 minute? Well, it is actually more because you allow it to come under pressure and you wait for 5 min to release so you get a little more cook time.
The red potatoes were perfect, the fresh beans were perfect and the Kielbasa was yummy but it is precooked so all it has to do is warm up. My husband likes to dip the sausage in a little pool of hot mustard.
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I love that it is such a delicious recipe but also so fast!
Wow! I surprised myself, I didn’t think I could cook this dish.. But not only did I but it turned out good, even the wife liked it.. Thanks!
Good job Cliff!!! your wife is lucky to have you 🙂
Hi. Instead of butter, would olive oil taste as good? Love how easy this recipe is!
Sure! That works!
Delicious! This will become a regular meal here! I followed the recipe exactly (except 9 min npr because I was busy), using a Cajun andouille smoked sausage. The seasoning was perfect and the buttery “sauce” was amazing. I may throw in some uncut mushrooms next time, but really, it’s great exactly as written!
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So glad you liked it Gretchen! It is a staple at our house 🙂
What if you don’t have a pressure cooker!
You can make this one in the slow cooker: https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-cajun-sausage-potatoes-and-green-beans/
Do you have a slow cooker?
I just made this for lunch. It was so good I did let it NR for 20 min just because I was busy doing something else The beans and potatoes were done nicely and so flavorful Thanks for an easy delicious recipe!
Glad you liked it Pam!
How do I make this using a 8-quart instant pot.
Same recipe, same cooking time just increase the liquid to 1.5 cups.
I made this the other night. I was out of seasoned salt and used Cajun seasoning instead. So good! Thanks for such a great recipe.
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Glad you liked it Sue!
Brand new to IP. This will be my very first foray into cooking with it. Pressure high or low?
Hi Jade! It is high pressure. Watch this video too it will help you! https://youtu.be/EJd6dC5d62U
I added onions and mushrooms.. Forgot butter…. Did not like until I figured you forgot butter so I added…..YUM
Thank You for a good recipe. I enjoyed.
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Everything’s better with butter!
Made this again and Surprise…it was just as good as the last time. Increased the amount of beans, yellow potatoes and of course sausage. Wife is celiac so had to watch my choice of sausage. Added a bit more water.
This is the perfect dump and cook meal. You can’t go wrong.
Hooray! I’m so glad you enjoyed it the second time too 🙂
Can you use canned green beans?
Yes but add them in after the pressure cooking is over or else they’ll be complete mush!
I used frozen green beans, the little thin whole ones, which are the only frozen green beans I will eat. I didn’t go looking for fresh in the middle of winter. After reading the comments, I decided on 2 minutes because my husband has problem with his dentures (despite getting new ones!) and likes everything pretty tender. I could have done 1, I think, but nothing was mushy. I also used some Herbox sodium free chicken bouillon instead of water, and added some mushrooms. It was very good. I reduced the amount of everything since there are only 2 of us. It’s a keeper.
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Good to know Lana! Thank you for sharing your experience.
I used frozen green beans and it came out great!
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YAY!!! Thanks for sharing.
I totally feel like I could make this and my family would actually eat it! Thank you for sharing!!
They would!!
Is the 1 minute time correct? I used my 6 qt IP for this recipe and after 1 minute the potatoes were still hard and the green beans uncooked. Both the potatoes and green beans were fresh, not old. All together I had to cook for about 24 minutes to get the potatoes soft.
The recipe was flavorful and I would make this again. Can you please clarify the cooking time? Thank you.
How interesting. I always use the 1 minute cooking time and the potatoes are very soft. What kind of pressure cooker do you have? What kind of potatoes did you use?
I did 2 mins and it turned out perfectly.
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If I wanted to add onions and mushrooms, when would I incorporate it into the recipe? And would it change the cook time?
I would add them in with everything else. And I’d keep the same time.
Love your recipes, I’m guessing the sausages should be sliced if you’re layering them though?
Whoops! Yes you’re right. Thank you. I’ve corrected the recipe.
Wonderful! Cold weather food at its best, and so easy
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Yes so easy!
following because I personally like canned green beans better 🙂
I personally do canned green beans & cubed potatoes in my Mini 3qt ALL the time, 1 cup of Chicken Better than Bouillon broth @ 4min then quick release & beans are not mushy at all. Hubby can’t get enough of them! Much more convenient IMO
So, if I double this recipe and use my canned green beans, how long should I set my IP? Thank you!
I would not pressure cook the canned beans. I would just stir them in after the potatoes have pressure cooked. Otherwise I think they’ll be completely unidentifiable
Hi Karen, Love your recipes. I personally do canned green beans & cubed potatoes in my Mini 3qt ALL the time, 1 cup of Chicken Better than Bouillon broth @ 4min then quick release & beans are not mushy at all. Hubby can’t get enough of them! Will definitely be adding the sausage soon.
Thank you! Good to know 🙂
I created this recipe myself in a big skillet for my big family 20 years ago before there was an Instant Pot available with just a couple of changes that really add flavor: EV Olive oil instead of butter, 1t. powdered chicken bouillion, and a lot of onion powder and generous black pepper. Frozen green beans work just fine though I too prefer fresh. Smaller cubes on the potoes work best because you want them to “melt” somewhat, which adds a lot to the dish. My method could be done in the IP, but you’d do just the potatoes first for a minute in a bit of water so that they are crisp tender, then add green beans and sausage after that and do for min longer, which will allow the potatoes to melt a bit in the mixture. This is a real family favorite!
Sounds so good Darcie!