Name: Simple Sausage Rice Dinner
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 cups Rice (I use long grain white); 1 pound Breakfast Sausage (ground); 2 1/2 cups Chicken Broth ((4 cups for stovetop method)); 1 Onion (diced); 1 cup Celery (diced); 3 tbsp Butter; 1 tbsp Soy Sauce; 2 tsp Salt

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This simple sausage rice dinner is the dish I throw together on nights I am too tired to think of what to make. It’s fast, delicious, and uses ingredients we always have on hand. Served with a side of green beans or broccoli, and you have a complete meal in 20 minutes.

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My favorite weeknight dinners are the ones that take no thought, planning, or time to make. This is one of my go-to easy dinner recipes our whole family loves. Made with just a few ingredients you most likely have in your pantry, and allergy friendly too. This dinner is a winner every time.

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Instant Pot Or Stovetop

I always make this meal in my instant pot because it is so fast. But if you do not have instant pot, no biggie! I give stovetop instructions as well. This sausage rice takes 8 minutes in the instant pot and roughly 20 minutes to cook on the stove.

Not Just A Dinner Dish

While this is usually served as a dinner recipe, rice is actually one of our breakfast favorites as well! This delicious meal can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. With no required prep, this recipe makes any meal a breeze.

Allergy Friendly

This meal can easily be very allergy friendly. It’s naturally gluten and egg free, but you can make it dairy free as well by substituting olive oil for the butter in this recipe. By not using onions, you can make it FODMAP friendly as well. Liquid aminos or coconut aminos can be substituted for the soy sauce to make this recipe soy free.

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Meat

We usually make this recipe with pork breakfast sausage. If you do not have breakfast sausage in the fridge or freezer, you can substitute ground beef, chorizo, kielbasa, or even chopped up bratwurst to work with whatever protein you have on hand.

Save Time Chopping Vegetables

You can buy a premade frozen celery and onion mix in some grocery stores. I like to do something similar at home by buying bags of whole celery and whole onions and chopping and freezing myself. I chop the vegetables, freeze flat on a parchment lined cookie sheet, then once frozen I transfer to wide mouth mason jars to preserve in the freezer for quick use. Bonus, storing in glass prevents your freezer from smelling like onions! Having these frozen chopped vegetables available makes cooking so much faster, and saves on dish washing time as well!

instant pot with celery, onions, and ground pork sausage

Rice

In the past, I have used long grain white, jasmine, and basmati rice in the instant pot for this recipe without changing the time or measurements and they all turned out well. I have not used instant rice and don’t recommend you do so. I also haven’t tried brown rice. If you want to try to use brown rice I would increase the water by a cup and the cook time to 15 minutes high pressure + 5 minute natural release in the instant pot.

Tools You’ll Need:

Instant pot – or regular pot with lid for stovetop method

Liquid measuring cup

Spatula

Whisk

Teaspoons

Measuring Cups

Knife

Cutting Board

Ingredients:

Rice – I use long grain white

Breakfast Sausage – ground

Chicken Broth

Onion – diced

Celery – diced

Butter

Soy Sauce

Salt

How To Make Simple Sausage Rice Dinner:

Using the instant pot sauté setting, cook breakfast sausage thoroughly. Or sauté the sausage on medium heat in a pot for stovetop method.

woman sautéing ground sausage in instant pot with metal spatula

Add butter, celery and onions to the sausage and saute until tender (about 5 minutes)

woman adding butter, chopped celery and onions into instant pot with ground pork to sauté

Turn off heat. Deglaze pot by adding chicken broth and scraping any brown bits off of the bottom of the pot.

woman pouring liquid chicken broth into liquid measuring cup to add to instant pot of sausage and veggies

Add salt and soy sauce to pot and stir.

woman adding soy sauce to instant pot broth mixture

For instant pot: add rice, do not stir. Pressure cook high for 8 minutes then natural release 5 minutes. Release remaining steam and fluff with fork. (It will take about 15 minutes for the instant pot to build pressure)

woman adding rice to instant pot to cook in broth mixture

For stovetop: add rice, stir, bring to boil, cover with lid and simmer on medium/low for 18-20 minutes or until rice is fully cooked. Fluff with fork.

Serve warm with a vegetable side or as a meal on its own.

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Can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Can warm in oven or microwave to reheat.