Crispy peppers, onions and Italian sausages that are perfectly cooked on all sides are an easy and delicious meal to make in the air fryer! Air Fryer Italian Sausage, Peppers and Onions is one of the best meals for two we make.
Air Fryer Sausage & Peppers
A classic recipe that can be quickly and easily made in the air fryer all year around is this Air Fryer Italian Sausage, Peppers & Onions. We traditionally make this recipe on the grill, or an Instant Pot Sausage, Peppers and Onions but it’s great to have other options when cold or rainy weather blows in.
I love the air fryer because there is virtually no warm up time, so as long as the vegetables are cut up all you have to do is open the sausage package and vegetable containers, arrange on the air fryer tray and the meal is ready in 10 minutes!
My husband is a farmer that works close to home and I work from home, so this is the perfect type of meal to make for the two of us for lunch at home. The veggies can be prepped ahead of time when meal prepping for Saucy Chicken or Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes.
We typically enjoy Italian sausages on a brat and sausage bun, but this makes a great low card meal served without a bun and a side of Low-Carb Cauliflower Casserole or Cold Sauerkraut Salad.
Italian sausage is typically a raw ground meat inside a casing. Raw, ground pork sausage should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160°F. I love my Javelin digital meat thermometer which give a fast and accurate. reading. Raw Italian sausage takes about 10 minutes to cook in a 350°F air fryer.
Always read the label on the package of sausage to be sure, but smoked sausage is typically fully cooked during the smoking sausage. Fully cooked smoked sausage in our Sausage, Sauerkraut and Potatoes only needs to be heated
Easy Meals for 2 People
Our Cuisinart Air Fryer & Toaster Oven is my favorite kitchen tool to use for a quick lunch. I love that I can listen to a webinar or podcast while doing my lunch prep and be up and moving for a few minutes. Here are meals that I do make or could make or heat up in the air fryer for a quick and easy lunch:
- Air Fryer Pizza Sliders
- Open-Faced Italian BLT
- Chicken Bacon Ranch Sub
- Easy BBQ Pulled Pork Crescents
- Easy Taco Crescents
- Chicken Crescent Swirls
- Buffalo Chicken Roll-ups
Tips for Making Italian Sausage in the Air Fryer:
- Mix and match peppers
- Our family likes the look of colorful peppers
- Slice to peppers to desired thickness to put on sandwich, if sliced thinly add to air fryer tray halfway into the cooking time
- Onions should be sliced thicker so that they don’t burn
- The thickness of slices affect cooking time
- Can add a few mushrooms to the tray or other vegetables of your choice
- I have not tested cooking frozen sausage in the air fryer and do not think it would work well, so ensure that sausages have been defrosted
- Cooked meat and veggies freeze well in an airtight bag or container
- Sausage and vegetables reheat well in the air fryer toaster oven or microwave
- We enjoy Braut or Sausage rolls better than a Hoagie roll or hot dog bun for this recipe
How to Make Sausage, Peppers & Onions in the Air Fryer
- Prepare vegetables and use a spray bottle of olive oil, avocado oil or another similar oil and season with salt and pepper if desired. Veggies also taste great without oil or seasoning when cooked in the air fryer.
- Arrange sausages on one third of the air fryer tray with space for air to circulate on all sides of every piece of sausage.
- Place vegetables in a single layer on the remaining space on air fryer tray or basket.
- Air fry for 5 minutes at 350°F, use tongs to turn sausages over for more even cooking. Shake basket for veggies to loosen.
- Air fry for an additional 5 to 7 minutes until a meat thermometer shows that sausages have been cooked to an internal temperature of 160°F.
- Serve warm with favorite condiments on a brat or sausage roll.
Other Easy Air Fryer Recipes
Air Fryer Italian Sausage, Peppers & Onions
Ingredients
- 3 Italian sausages
- 1 bell pepper sliced
- 1/2 sweet onion sliced thickly
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- dash salt
- dash pepper
Instructions
- Spray vegetables with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Arrange sausage, peppers and onions in three rows in the air fryer basket. Air fry at 350°F for 5 minutes.
- If sausages aren't browning evenly turn and rotate them. Shake vegetables loose. If vegetables have reached desired doneness remove from air fryer.
- Cook for another 3 – 5 minutes until sausages reach an internal temperature of 160°F and until vegetables reach desired doneness.
Notes
- Mix and match peppers
- Our family likes the look of colorful peppers
- Slice to peppers to desired thickness to put on sandwich, if sliced thinly add to air fryer tray halfway into the cooking time
- Onions should be sliced thicker so that they don’t burn
- The thickness of slices affect cooking time
- Can add a few mushrooms to the tray or other vegetables of your choice
- I have not tested cooking frozen sausage in the air fryer and do not think it would work well, so ensure that sausages have been defrosted
- Cooked meat and veggies freeze well in an airtight bag or container
- Sausage and vegetables reheat well in the air fryer toaster oven or microwave
- We enjoy Braut or Sausage rolls better than a Hoagie roll or hot dog bun for this recipe
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