How To Make Vegetable Spaghetti In The Instant Pot®
Don’t forget How To Make Hard Boiled Eggs In An Instant Pot® if you want another recipe to try!
Two of the biggest advantages to having an Instant Pot are how quickly things cook and how few dishes you get dirty. This recipe is one of my FAVORITE examples of this.
How To Make Vegetable Spaghetti In The Instant Pot®
Ingredients
1 jar spaghetti sauce (which you will refill with water)
1 box of noodles ( I really prefer rotini with this recipe)
1 tsp Olive Oil
Garlic (as much as you desire)
1 head of broccoli
Half a bag of Spinach
Directions
The first thing I do is saute the spinach. I have the Instant Pot IP-DUO60 7-in-1 Multi-Functional Pressure Cooker so the pictures are what that machine should look like while you make this.
Set it on saute and add the olive oil and garlic in the pot. In under a minute you will hear the oil start to bubble and then you can add as much spinach as you like. Go ahead and saute it in the oil and garlic and set the spinach aside in a different bowl.
This is the water- not super runny spaghetti sauce.
Now pour the spaghetti sauce into your Instant Pot. Add the entire box of noodles and the heads of broccoli. Then take the spaghetti sauce jar, fill it with water and dump it into the pot. Then fill it half way again and dump it in.
Once the water is in stir it so that everything is covered by liquid. Then close and lock the lid. Set the Instant Pot for 5 minutes on high. The pressure will take a few minutes to build as the pot is pretty full.
After five minutes the pot will beep and you need to do a quick release (let the steam out manually through the vent). I have seen in some rooms that people occasionally have some sauce spray out so you can hold a dish towel about six inches above the vent to be sure it doesn’t spray your cabinets. I have never had this happen but it seems to be a thing.
Once it is done de-pressurizing open and mix the spinach in with the contents. Hopefully it will look something like below.
It will be HOT when it’s done cooking- you won’t be able to just spoon it out of the pot into a bowl and eat it right away. So you might want to set it aside to cool a bit or transfer it to another bowl!
