"Rush" Instant Pot Spaghetti With Homemade Pasta Sauce

Spaghetti with meat sauce - one of the all-time best comfort foods cooked in an instant pot for an easy weeknight one-pot meal.

Regular spaghetti and meat sauce is not difficult to cook, but cooking the classic in an Instant Pot has two distinct advantages that make it worth it. The biggest is there is no rush, as this a hands-free multi-task type recipe. 

1. First you can brown the meat and cook the pasta in the same pot.
2. Second it’s easy to dial up the right texture consistently
3. Require less water to cook the pasta which equals more pasta flavor
4. IP is worry free cooking with no babysitting

 

Instant Pot Spaghetti Ingredients

I used this homemade pasta sauce made right in my instant pot, but feel free to use your own doctored up favorite.

How To Make Instant Pot Spaghetti (Step by Step)

Step 1: Saute the aromatics

Step 2: Brown the meat

Step 3: Add the Sauce

Step 4: Cook the pasta

Serving Suggestions

I like my spaghetti with meat sauce plain, assuming the sauce is on point, which the sauce the recipe calls for definitely is. Feel free to add some fresh basil and a little grated parmesan or shaved Pecorino Romano. Nice green salad or a twist pairs well. Try one of these:

Smoked Tomato Salad

Pear and Fennel Salad with Collards

Napa Cabbage Salad

Mustard Greens Salad

Tips For Cooking Spaghetti In Instant Pot

• Brown the ground beef well according to instructions for browning meat in Instant Pot. Season as you cook to add flavor.
• Use a pasta sauce with strong flavor since you’ll need to dilute it with water in order to cook the pasta fully. Feel free to doctor the sauce by adding seasonings like dried herbs, paprika, etc.
• If sauce is too runny after cooking then use the saute function to reduce the sauce to a thicker consistency.
• Long spaghetti strings clump together easily when cooking in Instant Pot. To avoid this lay the spaghetti in the pot in criss-cross fashion. For the same clumsiness reason don’t stir the pasta once you’ve added it to the pot.
• Deglaze the pot removing the brown bits after cooking the ground beef to avoid the dreaded “burn” notice from the Instant Pot
• Break the spaghetti in half before cooking to fit in the pot
• Eat immediately after cooking for maximum flavor.
• For A Caribbean take on spaghetti make this Haitian spaghetti

For other Instant Pot recipes you might like, try these:

Instant Pot Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken

Instant Pot Jerk Chicken Thighs

Instant Cabbage with Andouille Sausage

Instant Pot Creole Green Beans

Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce

Instant Pot Collard Greens w/ Smoked Brisket

Instant Pot Okra Soup

Instant Pot Coconut Braised Brussel Sprouts

Instant Pot Black-eyed Peas

Instant Pot Ham and White Beans

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice

Instant Pot Meatballs

If you make this delicious spaghetti with meat sauce recipe or any other from the site, please come back and leave me a comment below with your feedback. Definitely take a photo of the dish and be sure to tag #foodfidelity so that I can see them.

You can also keep up with my food exploits as well as original recipes! You can find me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. If you like any of the music you find on the site, visit me at Spotify to find curated monthly playlists.

Sharing is caring!