Instant Pot Pizza Pasta Recipe
Last-minute meals are for those hectic days when everyone comes home at six o’clock and wants dinner now. There’s no time to get fancy, so you just whip up something fast and easy, like scrambled eggs or spaghetti. It’s not exciting, but it’s a meal.
Crowd-pleasing meals, on the other hand, are the ones you pull out when you really want to make the whole family happy. They’re meals that you know even the pickiest eaters in your family won’t turn their noses up at. Like, for instance, pizza with pepperoni and sausage.
Of course, what every busy mom would really love is a recipe that does both of these at once: a meal that’s quick to get onto the table, and makes everyone happy when it shows up. But honestly, where are you ever going to find a dish like that?
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In your Instant Pot, that’s where!
With the help of the Instant Pot, you can whip up a dinner that’s got all the crowd-pleasing flavor of pizza, and comes together in – no joke – 15 minutes flat. Brown some sausage right in the pot, add the pasta sauce and noodles, give it five minutes to cook, and top it with cheese and pepperoni.
In the time it takes your kids to set the table (after going back twice because they forgot the salt and the napkins), you can have dinner on it. And not just any dinner, but a dinner they’ll love.
Instant Pot Pizza Pasta
Printable recipe directions and ingredient list at bottom of post.
Directions:
- Set the IP on “sauté”. Melt the butter, add the garlic Italian seasoning and sausage. Sauté until the sausage is no longer pink.
- Add both spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce to the sausage mixture . Next add in pasta.
- Add the water. Give a stir and put on the lid, and be sure to set the toggle switch to “seal”.
- Set on Manual for 5 minutes. Do a Quick Release and open the lid after the silver pin has dropped.
- Add HALF the cheese and HALF the pepperoni – mix it into the pasta/meat mixture.
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese and pepperoni over the top of the mixture. Replace the lid and let the cheese melt and the pepperoni warm through.
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Instant Pot Pizza Pasta
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Ingredients
- 1 lb. sausage Italian, mild,
- 8 oz. pizza sauce
- 16 oz. pasta sauce
- 28 oz. water
- 8 oz. mozzarella
- 20 slices pizza pepperoni
- 1 lb. pasta I used cavatappi
- 2 tsp garlic minced
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- as desired salt and pepper
- 1 tbsp. butter
Instructions
- Set the IP on “sauté”. Melt the butter, add the garlic Italian seasoning and sausage. Sauté until the sausage is no longer pink.
- Add both spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce to the sausage mixture. Next add in pasta.
- Add the water. Give a stir and put on the lid, and be sure to set the toggle switch to “seal”
- Set on Manual for 5 minutes. Do a Quick Release and open the lid after the silver pin has dropped.
- Add HALF the cheese and HALF the pepperoni – mix it into the pasta/meat mixture
- Sprinkle the remaining cheese and pepperoni over the top of the mixture. Replace the lid and let the cheese melt and the pepperoni warm through.
Nutrition
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Can you add veggies to this (mushrooms, bell peppers, etc) I assume you would put them in with the onions. We make pizza pasta on the stove/in the oven all the time, but prefer a more “supreme” pizza pasta. 🙂
Yep! I think those all sound like great add-ins!
Hey, Janet! Did you end up adding the veggies with the onions? How did it turn out? I was hoping to add in mushrooms too 🤔
This looks like a fun one for Sunday NFL days. One thing – I don’t really like pepperoni. Can I use another pizza topping like Canadian bacon (or even regular bacon) in its place?
I think bacon would be yummy!
This recipe sounds delicious. Is there a way to make it in a slow cooker since I have an instapot? Thanks
Does anyone ever have issues with too much grease from the sausage? I’m new to the IP world and haven’t browned sausage in an IP yet.
In Canada, lean in one store is very different that lean ground in another. Sometimes I have alot of grease. I drain it by either scooping the meat out with a slotted spoon then empty the IP or dump the contents into a strainer sitting over a bowl to separate the grease from the meat.
Curious as to why some things were labeled in ounces and not cups. Had to figure out the conversions. Why does it say 28 oz of water and not 3.5 cups of water for example?
I agree! Can you concert the oz for us? The spaghetti sauce we buy is in a 24 oz jar, and pizza sauce comes in 14 oz jar. Cup conversions would be greatly appreciated!