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Easy pasta recipe, Instant pot spaghetti with meatballs in sauce. Frozen or fresh meatballs with delicious noodles- a quick dinner for your whole family!
Can you cook noodles in pressure cooker?
Absolutely yes! Its so easy and it turns out perfect each time. The main secret to perfect pasta is to make sure you cover it with liquid and once its pressure cooked, quick release and separate the noodles. Try my other instant pot pasta recipes:
- Instant pot chicken lo mein noodles
- Instant Pot Fettuccine Alfredo pasta
- Quick and easy Instant Pot beef stroganoff
The main difference between pasta recipes mentioned above and this Instant pot spaghetti and meatballs recipe, is that i used a frozen ingredient- meatballs and premade spaghetti sauce.
The easiest recipe on my blog! But if you prefer to use homemade meatballs, try meatballs recipes from this dishes- Air fryer meatballs or Skinny Fettuccine Alfredo with meatballs.
Cooking pasta in Instant pot
When i cook pasta in my Instant pot i try to use spaghetti type, or linguine. Before cooking you need to break them in half. If you are using other pasta noodles like penne or rotini, there is no need to worry.
Just dump them in to your pressure cooker and cover with sauce. Once cooked, they will be perfect and not stuck together.
More Instant pot recipes you may like:
- Instant Pot beef pot roast with potatoes
- Pressure cooker (Instant Pot) whole chicken– using the CRISPLID!
- Instant Pot collard greens with bacon
- Instant Pot turkey legs with gravy
This recipe is part of my collection of Easy instant pot recipes recipes. Check it out!
Instant pot spaghetti and meatballs
Equipment
Ingredients
- 10 oz spaghetti noodles
- 24 oz pasta sauce
- 3 cups water
- 1 lb meatballs frozen or fresh
- oil spray for the pot
Instructions
- Spray the inner pot with olive oil spray. Add meatballs. Break spaghetti in half and arrange on top of meatballs. Add sauce on top and water. Make sure all spaghetti are covered with liquid.
- Close and lock the lid. Cook for 10 minutes on MANUAL. Quick release.
- Once done, stir your pasta immediently and serve with some parmesan on top.
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Nutrition
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I’m cooking for one so I’m wondering if I can at least half this recipe and if so, how would it change the cooking times? Any thoughts?
I made this with meatballs from Costco. Can i just say the flavor of my meatballs made this amazing!!
I used a little more water because it wasn’t covering the noodles. I won’t do that again.
This was EASY, quick and just what I need when I’m in a pinch!
I tried this recipe tonight with using Vodka sauce. It turned out great. Taking off the lid after cooking it the sauce was runny. I was worried. But then as it sat for about 10 minutes, the noodles soaked up some of the sauce and it was good. Maybe next time I would add a little over 2 cups of water instead of 3. Will make this again. Thank you for the recipe 🙂
Walmart has half length spaghetti in 1# boxes for ~90¢
I wonder what an instant pot can’t do. I now make some lentil meatballs before setting my IP to pressure cook for some yum sphagetti and meatballs vegan.
Wow! I use my instant pot all the time, but I’ve never thought about making pasta in it. And even better that you can make the sauce and meatballs in there at the same time. What a time saver!
I love spaghetti and meatball because it’s quick and easy to make on a busy night. And now it’s even better when it can be done in an instant pot. Love this recipe!
Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my favorite meals of all time and for some reason, I’ve never thought about making it in my instant pot. This recipe is great because I often have leftover marinara in my freezer and this is the perfect idea for a super quick meal! Thank you for sharing!
I would never have thought to make spaghetti and meatballs in an instant pot, but love the idea!
I am totally salivating looking at these photos. Is it wrong to have spaghetti and meatballs for breakfast? If not, I’d like to ignore that advice because these look delicious. I love that this all comes together right in my Instant Pot too!
I’ve never thought of cooking pasta in an Instant Pot, but it looks like it’ll work great! Such a quick and easy dinner for the whole family to enjoy.
Definitely looking forward to trying this recipe! The last time I tried to do pasta in the IP I burnt my sauce. We love pasta as an easy weeknight meal, this is going to be a perfect fit for our family.
Wow! I love spaghetti and this recipe looks awesome! Then you add in the fact that it is so easy to make and is made in the insta pot…..LOVE!
Okay now this is what I call a quick weekday meal! This is perfect for super busy days, when you get home late from appointments or errands and just don’t have time to make dinner!
It looks good, and I am pretty sure it is time saving and tasty, but as an Italian I just cannot think of cooking pasta in an instant pot (we actually don’t own an instant pot 🙂 ) Does it stay al dente? Just curious 🙂 .
You probably can perfect the recipe to al dente))) But this one is not really. But still good!))
What a quick and easy dinner! I haven’t made pasta in the instant pot before, but will have to try it out.