Instant Pot Sausage Tortellini Soup
A hearty and soul-warming meal, this Instant Pot Sausage Tortellini Soup is a perfect cold weather meal.
Servings: 6
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 T olive oil
- 1 lb ground sausage mild, spicy or combination of both
- 14 oz cheese tortellini refrigerated
- 3 carrots diced
- 2 celery stalks diced
- 1 medium sweet onion diced
- 2 cloves garlic diced
- 1 can diced tomato 14.5 oz - do not drain
- 1 can tomato sauce 8 oz
- 5 oz fresh spinach
- 6 basil leaves torn or chiffonade
- 2 T fresh parsley chopped
- 5 cups vegetable stock
optional: freshly shaved parmesan cheese or romano cheese
Instructions
- Set Instant Pot to saute. Once hot, add oil and sausage. Brown sausage and stir to break up. Once browned, stir in onion, celery, carrot and garlic. Cook 2-3 minutes.
- Pour in ¼ C broth and deglaze the pot (scrape all the bits of sausage from the bottom). Add in the remaining broth, diced tomato and tomato sauce.
- Cover and seal pot. Set to 10 minutes (high pressure).
- When timer is up, release pressure, remove cover and turn to simmer.
- Stir tortellini into soup and allow to cook on simmer until cooked, about 6 minutes. Once tortellini is cooked stir in spinach, basil and parsley. Turn off pot and stir well to wilt spinach into the soup.
- Serve with grated or shaved parmesan cheese.