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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
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 immediately and serve with some Parmesan on top.
Tools used in this recipe
Nutrition
Nutrition information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators.
Sam
Sunday 16th of January 2022
Wow! I’m so impressed with this recipe! Easy, cheap, quick and tastes great! what more can you ask for? Followed the recipe exactly except because the pasta wasn’t fully covered I added a little extra sauce.Came out Perfect,will make again for sure:)
Caroline Laanstra
Tuesday 14th of September 2021
I followed your recipe last night, using homemade meatballs and homemade pasta sauce. Do you have an idea why the "burn" symbol came up? It came to pressure, then when I saw the burn warning I did a quick release. Nothing was sticking to the pot. So I tried again, and after coming to pressure it happened again. BUT my pasta and meatballs were cooked! So we had a great meal. Your thoughts on what happened would be appreciated.
Ashley
Tuesday 30th of March 2021
It would help if you give the cooking settings, are we supposed to guess??
Jenni
Tuesday 1st of February 2022
@Tatiana Shifruk, yes it says manual but my insta pot doesn’t. So is pressure suppose to be the same as MANUAL?
Tatiana Shifruk
Friday 16th of April 2021
It says MANUAL. High pressure
stace11yel
Monday 23rd of March 2020
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?
Laura
Sunday 8th of March 2020
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!