Comments on: Easy Instant Pot Spaghetti

By: Karen Wilcox

Karen Wilcox — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:23:43 +0000

Excellent! I substituted Italian sausage for the ground beef, otherwise did everything the same. My first instant pot meal! No problems once I called the instant pot helpline and found out I was setting the cooker for 4 hours instead of minutes. I couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t let me set for 5 minutes/hours. Lol! Never a dull moment around me!

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 22:33:30 +0000

I’m making this now. I have a duo 6at IP. Mine doesn’t have a “manual” button, so I pressed “pressure cook” but it will only let me see to 4 minutes. Help!

By: Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:07:26 +0000

In reply to Karen.

No it wouldn’t Karen. Just cook for half the amount of time listed on the pasta box and you should be good. The meat was already cooked before starting the pressure cooking portion. 🙂

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 03:09:17 +0000

Would the time be different if I don’t use any meat?

By: Dawn Smith

Dawn Smith — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:42:40 +0000

I want to cook a pound of spaghetti. Do I just double everything including the time?

By: Kakthy

Kakthy — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:57:14 +0000

Another amazing dish from cookingwith curls. From fridge to table in 20 minutes. What a bonus for working parents! Next time I’ll add some veggies to it (muchrooms, peppers, celery.

By: SandyToes

SandyToes — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:46:42 +0000

I made a half-recipe of this tonight in Thing 2 (IP Mini). I haven’t used jarred sauce in over 10 years, but Winn-Dixie recently released their own brand of sauce for $1.59/jar. Their products are usually very good, so how could I resist that price? I knew I’d test it in your recipe. It was a little sweet, but a big squirt of lemon juice, some black pepper and your beef & onion additions made it taste like homemade. My thin spaghetti only needed 4 minutes to cook, and I probably could have shortened the release time to 4 minutes.

The finished pasta was delicious, and most importantly, your technique worked! I credit your photo showing us what the sauce should look like before cooking. I added a little extra water and it was perfect. Thank you for the photo, it was so helpful! Yeah, this just went into my Favorites file.

By: SandyToes

SandyToes — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:40:53 +0000

Hi Lisa,

Thank you! Yours is the first pasta recipe I’ve found that shows us how thin the sauce should be before cooking. This is so helpful, because I make my own meat sauce and tomato sauce. Now I can see what it’s supposed to look like before cooking the pasta.

If using my meat sauce recipe, should I mix in some of the water ot thin the sauce, then add pasta and additional water, if needed? Or just dump meat sauce in the pot, add the pasta, then water?

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:40:01 +0000

Pinned! Cannot wait to try this. Loving my new Instant Pot. This looks delicious and perfect for a quick weeknight meal!

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:29:06 +0000

OMG…this came out fantastic. I have a Nuwave Nutripot Pressure cooker. 8qt. I didn’t use any meat. I used onion,green and red peppers, mushrooms (lg size) and sautéed them in olive oil red pepper flakes basil and a touch of Italian seasoning.I also used chicken stock and red wine. This was the first time I tried cooking pasta at the same time as a sauce. I didn’t have any tomato paste so I used 1 large 28ox chunky style Pastene and one 14 oz diced tomatoes with no salt. Thank you so much. It came out perfect. I used Braille pasta and broke the spaghetti in half. Make sure to cover the pasta with the liquid. I did add Romano cheese in it too. Cooked it about 6 mins. Let it sit 5 then quick release. Thank you ..thank you. I was so afraid it would be mush. So good.