Instant Pot Spaghetti

4.94 from 62 ratings

from kristineskitchenblog.com

This Instant Pot Spaghetti is one of the best Instant Pot recipes for an easy family dinner. Everything cooks together in the Instant Pot: meat, pasta and sauce!

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Pressurize Time15

Total Time35

Servings: servings

Calories: 325kcal

Ingredients

1 pound lean ground beef or ground turkey
4 cups water
2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
¾ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
16 ounces uncooked spaghetti white or whole wheat
15 ounce can tomato sauce
25 ounce jar marinara sauce see note below

Instructions

Turn on the Instant Pot sauté function and add the ground beef. Cook, crumbling with a spoon or spatula, until browned. Turn the Instant Pot off. Drain off any excess grease.
Add the water, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Stir until well combined, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot.
Take small handfuls of the spaghetti noodles, break them in half, and lay them in the pot arranged in different directions (to prevent the spaghetti from sticking together). Do not stir.
Pour the tomato sauce and marinara sauce over the spaghetti. Do not stir.
Close Instant Pot lid and move the steam valve to the sealing position.
Pressure cook at high pressure for 7 minutes if using regular white spaghetti with a package cook time of 9-11 minutes. Pressure cook at high pressure for 5 minutes if using whole wheat spaghetti with a package cook time of 7-9 minutes. The Instant Pot will take about 15-20 minutes to come to pressure and then the cook time will start counting down.
As soon as the cook time ends, do a quick release (carefully move the steam release valve to the venting position. Then wait for all of the steam to escape and the pin to drop down).
Remove the lid, stir. You will see some liquid in the pot. This will absorb after just a few minutes. Let the pasta rest for 3-5 minutes and then serve.

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Notes

Use a good quality marinara sauce that you love the flavor of, as that will impact the flavor of the finished dish.
If you want vegetarian spaghetti, leave out the meat and skip the sauté step (or sauté some vegetables, such as onions, bell peppers and carrots in a bit of olive oil). Put the water in the pot, followed by the seasonings. Then add the spaghetti as directed in the recipe. Pour the sauce over the top of the spaghetti and do not stir. Pressure cook as directed in the recipe.
I first shared this recipe in 2018 and have since updated it to use a full 16 ounce box of spaghetti, rather than half a box. If you wish to halve the recipe, omit the can of tomato sauce, use a full 25 ounce jar of marinara sauce and halve all of the other ingredients (including the water).

Nutrition

Nutrition information is only an estimate.