Super Easy Six Minute Instant Pot Spaghetti
Are you ready for the world’s easiest spaghetti recipe for a quick, cheap dinner? This instant pot spaghetti recipe cooks in just minutes, and you don’t have to boil noodles over a hot stove! Get spaghetti and meatballs from the instant pot in just minutes!
Hey y’all, Tiffany here.
This is one of our kids’ favorite dinners – we probably make it at least once a week!
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How to Make Instant Pot Spaghetti
If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, then you’ll know that cooking is not my thing.
One of the biggest things I hate about pasta dishes is the time you spend cooking the pasta, stirring over a hot stove, and then cleaning said stove because the pot always boils over.
But spaghetti in an Instant Pot is simple!
To make Instant Pot spaghetti, just put 1/2 cup of water on the bottom, then put in a bag of frozen meatballs. Add 16 oz of spaghetti noodles (we break ours in half and lay them flat) and top with a 24 oz jar of pasta sauce (like Ragu).
Although if you want to make things fancy, try out this Homemade Spaghetti Sauce!
Fill up the empty sauce jar with water, and add that to the pot. Stir everything around a little bit. Set on “Manual” for 6 minutes, and you can walk away!
- 1 cup water on the bottom
- Add a bag of frozen meatballs
- Layer 16 oz spaghetti noodles
- Top 24 oz pasta sauce
- Fill pasta sauce jar with water and add
- “Manual” for 6 minutes, then quick release.
If you’re having issues with getting the noodles to cook all the way (which can happen at some elevations and sometimes for no reason at all other than your kitchen hates you), then try cooking the noodles separately with 4 cups of water and the meatballs on top.
After the 6 minutes are done, then add the sauce and stir around. It will warm up pretty quickly.
And if the Instant Pot feels a bit overwhelming, give these easy Air Fryer recipes for beginners a try!
Super Easy Six Minute Instant Pot Spaghetti
Are you ready for the world’s easiest spaghetti recipe for a quick, cheap dinner? This instant pot spaghetti recipe cooks in just minutes, and you don’t have to boil noodles over a hot stove! Get spaghetti and meatballs from the instant pot in just minutes!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water
- 12-16 oz frozen meatballs
- 16 oz spaghetti noodles
- 24 oz pasta sauce
Instructions
- Pour water into instant pot
- Break spaghetti noodles into halves or thirds and place in pot
- Pour in pasta sauce
- Dump in meatballs
- Cook at high pressure for 6 minutes with quick release
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Something is going on here… I tried this recipe and it failed big time!
After the 6 minutes, I did the quick release but it didn’t have any steam which means there was no pressure built up. I just made chili a week prior and my Instant Pot was working fine so it wasn’t due to that. I even tried cooking another 6 minutes and stirred the ingredients, but when it was done (no pressure built up again), the pasta was still undercooked and now burning on the bottom of the pot.
So disappointing since I thought this recipe sounded promising, but it just was not.
You need to let the pressure build in the instant pot first and THEN time for 6 minutes once the pressure has built.
Manually release after 6 minutes.