Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce is an amazing weeknight family meal, that is ready in just a few minutes! I never thought that spaghetti meat sauce could be made in minutes on a weeknight, until I used the Instant Pot to make it. Now you too can have a delicious recipe for spaghetti sauce with meat, that will make a great week night meal.
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Best Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
Ready for a yummy weeknight dinner, that is ready in just minutes? Here is the equipment that you need to make it:
– Instant Pot Pressure Cooker, you need to have an Instant Pot to make a a delicious spaghetti pasta with meat sauce.
– Cutting Board, to chop onions on.
– Kitchen Knife, you will need a knife to cut the garlic.
What ingredients do you need to make Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce? Here is what you need:
– Spaghetti
– Crushed Tomatoes
– Italian Seasoning, we love the combination of Italian spices in this dish, as they add a lot of flavor to the sauce.
– Ground Beef, tomato sauce is delicious with some ground beef in it.
– Onions, you can’t have an Italian pasta sauce without onions — they make the dish much more flavorful and delicious.
Easy Weeknight Dinner
Why should you make this homemade Instant Pot Spaghetti in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker instead of the stove top?
Simply, it is so much easier to cook pasta and sauce in the Instant Pot! Plus, you don’t need to watch it cook, and you don’t even need to drain the pasta!
Instead of watching it cook and draining it, make Cucumber Tomato Salad to serve on the side, while the noodles are cooking in the Instant Pot!
More Easy Instant Pot Dishes
More delicious recipes to make in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker:
– Easy Instant Pot Caramel Apple Cheesecake, caramel and apples together are a perfect match. And so is cheesecake and Instant Pot. Don’t believe me? Then try this delicious cheesecake.
– Instant Pot Ground Turkey Stuffed Acorn Squash, a simple to make dish, that is perfect for fall dinner or Thanksgiving.
– Instant Pot Banana Bread Pudding, delicious bread pudding with bananas, made in your Instant Pot. You will love this dessert that is so simple to make.
– Instant Pot Caramel (Dulce De Leche) Recipe, a delicious caramel sauce with absolutely no work needed to make it!
– Easy Instant Pot Spinach Tortellini Soup Recipe, a delicious soup that comes together in minutes! Made with ingredients from the pantry and freezer, you will be amazed at how delicious it.
– Instant Pot Butternut Squash Recipe, delicious recipe for making your favorite fall butternut squash in the Instapot.
How To Make Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
For timing, tips, and nutrition information, consult the recipe card below.
Peel the onion, wash and chop on the cutting board. Set the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker to Saute and add oil to the Instant Pot. Once the oil is hot, add the onions and saute for a few minutes.
Add beef to the Instant Pot, break it apart and continue sauteing.
Add Italian Seasoning and continue sauteing for a few more minutes, until ground beef is almost done.
Break spaghetti into halves. Add crushed tomatoes and water to the Instant Pot. Put spaghetti on top of the mixture.
Gently push spaghetti into the liquid, so that they are completely submerged in the liquid, but do not mix. Pressure cook in the Instant Pot.
Use Natural Release, and once the pin drops carefully remove the lid from the Instant Pot. Let the pasta cool and set for 15-20 minutes. Once it is cooler, you can add a bit of cream and mix it in, if using.
Serve the delicious Instant Pot Spaghetti Bolognese with Watermelon Salad Recipe With Blueberries and Spicy Roasted Cauliflower.
What To Serve With Instapot Noodles with Meat Sauce
You can serve lots of things with this delicious dish! One thing to note is that the dish is already both meat and side dish. So all you need to do is add a veggie side dish or salad. Here are some delicious menus:
– For a delicious Italian dinner, serve on fall dinnerware with Caprese Salad Recipe, Garlic and Broccoli Rabe and Easy Cucumber Lemon Mint Water. Then, Easy Instant Pot Cheesecake and Pumpkin Spice Latte for dessert.
– For a fun fall dinner, serve on pumpkin plates with Apple Salad Recipe With Blue Cheese, Bibb Lettuce, Walnuts, Onions and Instant Pot Cranberry Apple Infused Water. And Best Halloween Brownies and Whipped Dalgona Coffee for dessert.
– For fun kids dinner, serve on Painted Poppies plates with Panzanella Salad, Strawberry Blueberry Infused Water and Chocolate Chips Banana Bread for dessert.
Pro Tips
More tips for making IP spaghetti and meat sauce. If you have more questions, please ask them in the comments.
Many have asked why you need to break spaghetti into halves, when making spaghetti ground beef in the Instapot. This is because the whole spaghetti noodle won’t fit in the Instant Pot, and will not be able to completely cook through.
Don’t have ground beef on hand? You can use ground chicken or ground turkey in this recipe, instead of ground beef.
You can use other pasta in this recipe, for example take a look at Easy Instant Pot Cheesy Taco Pasta.
The key to this recipe is to break the spaghetti noodles into halves, and make sure they are totally submerged in the liquid, while also not mixing everything together. Follow instructions in the recipe card below for cooking the most delicious Instant Pot Spaghetti Noodles.
Can You Make It In Advance?
You can make these delicious Instapot Italian Spaghetti with Meat Sauce in advance. Once they cool off completely, put them in the refrigerator. You can store them in the fridge for about 2 days.
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Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb Ground Beef
- 1 Yellow Onion medium
- ¾ lb Spaghetti
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- ¾ tbsp Italian Seasoning
- 28 oz Crushed Tomatoes
- 3 cups Water
Instructions
- Peel and chop the onion. Set the Instant Pot to Saute and add Olive oil to the Instant Pot. Once the oil is hot, add the onions. Saute them for a few minutes.
- Add the ground beef to the onions.
- Saute for a few minutes, and add Italian seasoning, mix and continue sauteeing until the beef is almonst cooked.
- Add crushed tomatoes and water and mix. Break spaghetti into halves and put on top of the mixture.
- Push the spaghetti into the mixture, so that pasta is fully submerged into liquid.
- Place the lid on the Instant Pot, use the manual setting, and cook for half of the amount of time that your pasta packaging says. Round up, if the number of minutes is odd. Use Natural Release, and wait for the valve to drop. Carefully open the lid.
- The sauce will be liquid-y. Let it cool for a bit, then take out the inner pot and place on a trivet to cool for 5-10 more minutes. The sauce will thicken. You can also add some cream or half and half at this point, if using.
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I’m new to cooking with an instant pot, so I really appreciate all the great info and thorough instructions you provided. Can’t wait to try out this recipe!
This looks great! Such a good recipe staple to have on hand. Thank you for providing detailed step by step instructions!
Oh gosh i super love spaghetti! This recipe looks so heavenly! Cant wait to try it
Is it sad that I haven’t made pasta in a while? We actually do have an Instant Pot and I’ve been meaning to make spaghetti, so I’m looking forward to trying this out–it looks amazing! :]!
love me an easy insta pot recipe! Feels like something I can whip up so quickly too without compromising on taste! great idea and thanks for sharing!
Nothing better than a delicious spaghetti and meat sauce, but this in an instant pot? game changer! thanks for a great and easy recipe
I am going to try this because it sounds good, but while the directions reference onions the Ingredients doesn’t say how many or how much.
Such an easy delicious weeknight meal! My family loved it! Thanks.
I live for spaghetti so this is the perfect recipe for me to try in my instant pot!! Thanks for sharing.
Such a tasty meal for the whole family! My kids absolutely love this, so good.
One of my favorite dinners! I served it with the caprese salad and everyone devoured everything.
What an easy and quick recipe it is! I am sharing it with my sons, and I will definitely try it myself. 🙂
Am new at using the instant pot – cant wait to try the recipe!
Such an easy weeknight meal. Can’t wait to try it. I know the kids are going to love it.
Thanks for such an easy staple IP dish for easy dinners – craving this today on a rainy Sunday!
Thanks for the recipe. I had been wanting to try spaghetti in my Instant Pot. Such an easy meal.
This turned out so delicious…my kids loved the spaghetti…this will be going on weekly rotation! 🙂
One whole onion? Recipe doesn’t specify amount of onion.
Yes, please use one medium yellow onion. We added this to the Spaghetti recipe card above.
You realize you don’t list the onions as an ingredient?
Hi, we added one medium yellow onion to the recipe card.
I make spaghetti all the time in my 6=quart pot, and always make lots of it, and portion it out into Tupperware containers that is enough for hubby and I for one meal with a salad… I freeze 4 to 6 containers at one time, they freeze great and we thaw them out, and it doesn’t ruin it at all, doesn’t go mushy or anything…thaw in sink during the day, then divide between two plates and heat in microwave until hot and steamy! Perfect every time for those days you don’t feel like cooking, I just have to make a salad and bang, dinner is ready! Question though, I always used stewed tomatoes but now due to diverticulitis Dr. Said no more foods with seeds in them. So can I use just tomato sauce and spice that up instead of diced, or stewed tomatoes! What do you think, we love our getti so much! Thanks in advance!
Hi, Jean. We have not tried this recipe with tomato sauce, but I think it should work. Please let us know how it turns out, if you try it!
Really liked how this came out! I used my homemade tomato sauce and it was delicious.
Can I use a different cut of pasta in this recipe?
Can I use a jar of sauce instead of crushed tomatoes or will I get the burn signal?