This Instant Pot Tortellini Soup with sausage gives you a complete meal in no time. This hearty and healthy soup is perfect on a cold night. The delicious ingredients are easy to find in any grocery store. You can also use various sausages like pork, chicken, or turkey, whatever your preference may be.
Do you want more fast Instant Pot meals? Try our Instant Pot Jambalaya, Instant Pot Lasagna, Instant Pot Chicken Cacciatore, or Instant Pot Peanut Butter Chicken Curry.
Looks pretty darn good, and it is made in under 30 minutes. It is the perfect meal for a cold night when you rush in from work.
Thinking of more tortellini recipes, you must try Slow Cooker Tortellini Pasta Bake for a delicious family meal.
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What Ingredients are in Instant Pot Tortellini Soup?
I think one of the great things about this recipe is that it doesn’t use heavy cream as so many tortellini soup recipes do. As mentioned in the opening paragraph, you can also lighten up the sausage tortellini soup by trading in the pork sausage and using either chicken or turkey. We are lucky now that these sausages are also available with spicy Italian seasonings, where you don’t even recognize the difference. All of these proteins are delicious choices. The chicken and turkey sausage are just leaner.
Ingredients:
Olive Oil
Ground Italian Sausage (chicken or turkey sausage can be substituted)
Yellow Onion, finely diced
Italian Seasoning
Garlic Powder
Salt
Black Pepper
Cheese Tortellini – comes in a package; I always get fresh, which is usually in the produce section.
Chicken Stock
Canned Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes
Fresh Spinach or Fresh Baby Spinach
You will need the following kitchen tools:
6-quart Instant Pot
Spatula or Spoon
Measuring Cups and Spoons
Cutting Board
Sharp Knife
Serving Spoon
How to Make Instant Pot Tortellini Soup
This soup only takes a couple of minutes of pressure cooking once everything is all sauteed. The total time is 25 minutes from start to finish. All of this information is here and in the recipe card for easy printing.
Turn on the sauté function on a 6-quart Instant Pot and pour olive oil into the inner pot.
Add sausage, onion, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to the inner pot.
Sauté until sausage is brown and onions are translucent in color, about 6-8 minutes.
Turn off the sauté function and add tortellini, chicken stock, and tomatoes.
Lock the lid onto the instant pot, check that the steam valve is set to seal, and set the instant pot on low pressure for 2 minutes.
When the 2-minute timer ends, do a quick release on the steam valve and remove the lid.
Add spinach and stir into soup until it is wilted.
Serve hot with grated parmesan cheese, if desired.
Notes:
Pressure cookers vary, so it may take up to 10 minutes for the instant pot to reach pressure before the 2-minute timer will start.
I used fresh tortellini that stated it would be ready in 2 minutes (boiled). If using dried tortellini, you may want to add an additional 2 minutes to the cooking time. Alternatively, you could allow the instant pot to do a natural release, giving the pasta more time to cook.
The pasta will soak up the broth as it sits. If you know you will not be eating the soup in one sitting, you can cook the pasta separately on the stove and put a serving size of pasta in a bowl, and top it with the soup. This works well for individual servings. Then store the soup and pasta separately in the refrigerator or freezer in portions.
Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. If eating leftovers, you may add additional chicken broth to the bowl before reheating.
What do you eat with Tortellini Soup?
Our Instant Pot Tortellini Soup with Sausage is a meal on its own, but you may still want a side to go with it. Even a simple artisan bread of sourdough or a lovely multigrain bread with do the trick. I will also never pass up a big crusty bun with a bowl of soup too. But sometimes you may want more, and here are a few suggestions for you.
Easy Garlic Bread – Pull out your air fryer and serve this awesome pull-apart bread with your soup.
Butter Swim Biscuits – These are naughty but one of the best biscuits I have ever had.
Caesar Salad Recipe – This classic salad goes perfectly with this soup as they are both Italian and full of flavor.
Easy Caprese Salad – This salad won’t consume your time making it. It is pretty much dump and toss, and your salad is made.
Everyday Garden Salad – Simple and delicious, I make the croutons from frozen garlic toast; such a winner of an idea for ease and flavor.
How do you use the Soup Function on an Instant Pot?
This recipe doesn’t use the soup function, but if you were wondering how that function works, we have included this below. This is for mainly instant pot soup recipes with meat that isn’t cooked all the way through but just seared.
The soup button is used to make stock or broth and, of course, soup. When you press the soup button it will say normal, 30 minutes at high Pressure. If you press the soup button again, you can adjust the mode from normal to less or more. This doesn’t adjust the pressure but just the cooking time.
More Delicious Soups to Try
I could almost have a soup site I love soup that much. It transcends all the cuisines of the world, so the menu for soups is endless. Homemade soups are the best, and it is something that our family loves. They also are very easy to make for the most part and are a meal that can be made ahead and enjoyed later or frozen.
Our daughter has grown up on homemade soups, and she is excited even now when she is served them or has a doggy bag to take to her house. Here are some of our favorite soups. Try some and tell me what you think.
Best Lobster Bisque Recipe – This one we have made so many times and always to rave reviews. It is a special soup and one you will want in your back pocket for just the right occasion.
30-Minute Beef Coconut Curry Soup – Different and delicious, you will think you have gone for takeout, but it is made in the same time as running out to get a meal.
Instant Pot Beef Stew Recipe – Here is another fast and amazing meal done in a fraction of the time traditional stews are made, yet with all the flavor.
Easy Peasy Hamburger Minestrone Soup – Everyone needs a soup like this in their arsenal. It makes a massive pot to serve a crowd, and kids and adults love it equally.
Chicken Pot Pie Soup – This soup is a real winner for a cold winter night. So easy and nutritious, you will love making it again and again, and your family will ask you for it too! The pie crust dipper, for me, is the winner.
Instant Pot Tortellini Soup with Sausage
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
- 1 Pound Ground Italian Sausage
- ½ Cup Yellow Onion finely diced
- 1 Tablespoon Italian Seasoning
- 1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 1 Teaspoon Black Pepper
- 1 20oz Container Cheese Tortellini
- 4 Cups Chicken Stock
- 2 14.5 oz Cans Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes
- 4 Cups Fresh Spinach
Instructions
- Turn on the sauté function on a 6-quart Instant Pot and pour olive oil into the inner pot.
- Add sausage, onion, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to the inner pot.
- Sauté until sausage is brown and onions are translucent in color, about 6-8 minutes.
- Turn off the sauté function and add tortellini, chicken stock, spinach, and tomatoes.
- Lock the lid onto the instant pot, check that the steam valve is set to seal, and set the instant pot on low pressure for 2 minutes.
- When the 2-minute timer ends, do a quick release on the steam valve and remove the lid.
- Serve hot with grated parmesan cheese, if desired.
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