Ninja Foodi sausage is a great dinner! Using fresh or frozen brats or sausage links you can make them tender on the inside with that snap on the outside in your air fryer!

Do you have an air fryer and looking for an easy dinner idea? Well Ninja Foodi sausage is not only simple, but inexpensive and loved by everyone in our house. One of many Ninja Foodi recipes you're sure to love these. (affiliate links present)

Love this new device of yours and ready to make all the things in it, like Ninja Foodi sausage patties and more?? We did too.

Once we got the hang of it and were using it on a daily basis we thought we'd share our favorite creations with all of you. Enjoy and let us know what you've been cooking up lately below too.

If you too are obsessed with your Ninja Foodi pressure cooker and air fryer machine, here are a few resource to start with:

You can bookmark our Ninja air fryer recipes page, we add to that weekly.
Here's an air fryer cooking times chart here for your fridge.
Be sure to save this link to Instant Pot recipes too. You can use any of those in your pot too.
Grab a set of wooden utensils to work with. They are great so your pot doesn't get scratched!
Then join our Facebook group where you can share and find more ideas you'll love. Thousands of others share easy recipe ideas.

Air Fry Brats

We started with frozen sausage but the cook time is identical if they are fresh.

So we first made Instant Pot brats and they were good BUT using an air fryer is even better!

Let's start with the basics shall we:

This is where to buy the Ninja Cooking system.
You can also grab a free recipe book here.
- You can print this free cook times sheet too
Make these in a Ninja Foodi Grill too.

This is the brand and amount we used to make Ninja Foodi sausage. Johnsonville Italian sweet sausage. Their beer brats are great too.

We loaded up when they offered buy one get one free at the store and threw them in our big freezer. That is the way to do it! Then when the last thing you want to do is go to the store you have something on hand.

Let us tell you, it is handy to know this and how to cook frozen chicken in a pressure cooker. Why? Because we don't always have our “stuff” together and remember to defrost what we're planning to cook for dinner.

Yep, you the Ninja Foodi sausage links right into your air fryer basket. Done!

You are going to use both functions to make these. You'll want to pressure cook them for a few minutes to get them tender on the inside.

Then to get that snap on the outside casing you will want to use the air fryer setting! in less than 15 minutes they'll be done.

From rock hard FROZEN to perfection in that short amount of time.

We know…GAME CHANGER!!

If you're looking for pressure cooker dinner recipes this is a great one. If you don't have the Foodi you can throw them under the broiler for a few minutes when they're done to crisp the outside.

BUT if you're looking for an all in one kitchen appliance this is so worth it!

What goes well with sausage?

No soak pressure cooker baked beans goes well with these as well as air fryer sausage links
Ninja Foodi French Fries
You can make some Hawaiian coleslaw
Spicy Mustard inside Buns
Vegetables
- Air fryer brussel sprouts
Potato Salad
Garlic Pull Apart Bread

What you need to make these:

Package of sausage or bratwurst
Olive oil spray
Water

We cook these quite often because they're inexpensive, quick, and there's NO need to wait for Oktoberfest to eat them! You can use them inside Hawaiian lettuce wraps too. There are many Ninja Foodi air fryer recipes We love, but you should try these next!

Bacon wrapped Ninja foodi chicken tenders are great
Dry rub air fryer wings recipe are great too
Ninja Foodi taco pasta
Our Ninja Foodi stew is great
How to make frozen chicken nuggets in air fryer

If you wanna make Instant Pot brats with mashed potatoes we've done that too. You can follow the same instructions as we use for the Instant Pot version but crispy the outsides at the end!

If you want to make pressure cooker sausage and peppers which is similar to this but with a tomato sauce and lots of bell peppers you should! Our pressure cooker sausage soup is good too.

Recently we made air fryer sausage and potatoes cooked together and that was a game changer! Printable recipe for air fryer sausage below:

Ninja Foodi Sausage

By Ninja Foodi sausage is a great dinner! Using fresh or frozen brats or sausage links you can make them tender on the inside with that snap on the outside! Prep: 5 minutes minsCook: 13 minutes minsServings: 6 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

6 sausage
olive oil spray

Instructions

Pour 1.5 c water into your Foodi. Place air fryer basket inside pot, spray inside with non stick spray, and put sausage links inside. Close pressure cooker lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 5 minutes.
Quick release when done and remove lid. Spray links with olive oil and close air crisp lid. Set to air crisp, 400 degrees for 8 min flipping halfway through so both sides get browned.
Remove and eat as you'd like.