Air Fryer Sausage and Peppers is a quick, easy and delicious meal. This is the perfect recipe for parties and game day festivities! Serve with hoagie buns, over pasta or as an appetizer.
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🌟Why You'll Love this Recipe
- This is a delicious and super easy versatile dinner recipe. It's perfect to make during a busy week for the family or to prepare for a party. Serve them alongside Blackened Chicken Sandwiches.
- This recipe is made with only a few ingredients and is done in just 30 minutes!
- I love serving these air fryer sausage and peppers in a hoagie roll. It reminds me of getting a sausage and peppers sandwich at a baseball game or from a street cart. If you prefer your sausage without a bun, check out my Air Fryer Chicken Sausage recipe.
🥘Ingredients and Substitutions
- Sausages- I've used both spicy and sweet Italian sausages in this recipe. You can use turkey, chicken or pork sausage, just make sure it is uncooked. If you are a fan of brats, try brats in the air fryer next.
- Bell peppers- I prefer green pepper and a red pepper but any color will work for this recipe.
- Rolls- use hoagie rolls, hot dog rolls, potato buns or brioche buns. Any kind of roll will work.
See the recipe card below for the remaining ingredients and quantities.
🔪Instructions
Step 1: Slice the peppers and the onion. Add them to a large bowl and season with salt, black pepper and olive oil.
Step 2: Add the vegetables and sausages to the air fryer. Cook for 10 minutes, flip the sausages and cook for another 10 minutes.
💭Recipe FAQs
Chicken sausage is done in the air fryer when it reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees F. You can use a meat thermometer to check the temperature. If using pork sausage, the internal temperature should be 155 degrees F.
It depends on your air fryer model. I recommend looking at your air fryer manual. I use a NuWave air fryer and I do preheat mine as I would my oven.
Yes, feel free to use other vegetables such as mushrooms, zucchini or eggplant.
👩🏻🍳Chef Tips
- Air fryer temperature. I cooked the sausage and veggies at 400 degrees F in my air fryer. If your air fryer tends to run hotter, set it to 375 degrees F instead.
- Cook time. This recipe calls for cooking the peppers, onion and sausage at the same time. If you prefer your veggies to be softer, cook them for 5-8 minutes longer than the sausage.
- Substitutions and variations. If you prefer to use pre-cooked sausage, you will need to reduce the cooking time to about 10 minutes, just until the sausages are browned. Instead of red and green peppers, you can use orange or yellow.
- If you have leftovers, store them in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. Reheat in the microwave for about 1-2 minutes. If you're wondering if your chicken sausage is bad, check out this post on how long cooked sausage lasts.
🥗Serving
Serve the air-fried sausage and peppers in a bun with mustard, marinara sauce and/or mozzarella cheese for a great-tasting sandwich. They can also be served over pasta, rice or mashed potatoes.
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🍳Recipe
Air Fryer Sausage and Peppers
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 red bell pepper, sliced
- 1 green bell pepper, sliced
- 1 sweet onion, sliced
- 1 pound sweet or spicy Italian sausage
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- For serving: rolls, mustard, marinara sauce and/or mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Begin by slicing the bell peppers and the sweet onion. Add them to a large bowl and season with salt, black pepper and olive oil. Toss to coat with your hands or tongs.
- Preheat the air fryer to 400 degrees F.
- Once preheated, add the vegetables to the air fryer basket and top them with the sausages.
- Cook for 10 minutes, flip the sausages and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Remove from the air fryer and serve on rolls with your favorite toppings. Enjoy!
Notes
- Air fryer temperature. I cooked the sausage and veggies at 400 degrees F in my air fryer. If your air fryer tends to run hotter, set it to 375 degrees F instead.
- Cook time. This recipe calls for cooking the peppers, onion and sausage at the same time. If you prefer your veggies to be softer, cook them for 5-8 minutes longer than the sausage.
- Substitutions and variations. If you prefer to use pre-cooked sausage, you will need to reduce the cooking time to about 10 minutes, just until the sausages are browned. Instead of red and green peppers, you can use orange or yellow.
- If you have leftovers, store them in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. Reheat in the microwave for about 1-2 minutes. If you're wondering if your chicken sausage is bad, check out this post on how long cooked sausage lasts.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
Trish Hart says
Delicious and easy! Had my 19 yr old son make this for all of us for dinner last night.
Sarah Holt says
So happy the whole family enjoyed it Trish!!
Veronica Kera says
Just WOW! Never imagined making sausage and papers in an air fryer but this is amazing! Everything fits into the air fryer and it's so quick, simple, fast, and clean. Highly suggest it for all the other busy people out there. Thanks for another great recipe literally would have nothing to eat at night if it wasn't for you
Sarah Holt says
Thanks so much for the great review Veronica!