Air fryer Italian sausage is wonderfully simple to make and incredibly delicious, featuring a golden, crispy casing and juicy interior! Whether you prefer hot, sweet, or mild flavors, cooking Italian sausages in your air fryer will quickly become your favorite method for its ease and tasty results.
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Instructions
Preheat your air fryer to 360°F (182°C) for 5 minutes or until fully preheated.
Once the air fryer is preheated, arrange the 5 Italian sausages links in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Seal and air fry for 6 minutes at 360°F (182°C), then open and turn the sausage carefully using tongs.
Close the air fryer and finish cooking the sausages for an additional 6 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 160F (71C).
If you like, before serving, consider adding the sausages to 5 hot dog buns or hoagie rolls. You can also choose to warm the buns: simply place each sausage into a bun and return them to the air fryer. Heat at the same temperature for an extra 2-3 minutes for toasty, warm buns.
Notes
*Nutritional information is calculated based on the Italian sausage only. Buns will vary greatly, as will condiments.
Italian sausage brands will all cook at roughly the same amount of time as long as they are links, under about 4 ounces in weight.
We enjoy Johnsonville sweet, mild, and hot Italian sausages as well as Premio, Swaggerty, Hillshire Farms, Isernio's, as well as chicken and turkey-based Italian sausages and the meat alternative sausage brands Beyond Meat and Tofurkey.
Sausages should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160°F (71°C) as read by a digital meat thermometer.
Temp the same sausage while cooking so the others are not pierced.