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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I only have whole wheat pasta. Would I need to increase cooking time?
I don’t think you would have to adjust the time for whole wheat pasta.
I used whole wheat elbow pasta and followed the recipe exactly and it worked great.
If you wanted to skip the sausage and make this without meat, would you completely skip step 1 and exclude the butter?
I have only made the recipe as written Dave. If you give that a try, please let us know how it turns out. Thanks!
I just made this meal tonight with no meat (my first ever instant pot meal!!) and it worked just fine. It looked a little soupy when it first stopped cooking, but I left it on “warm” for a little while and it firmed up just fine. My three boys LOVED it! Next time I will try the sausage, since I know my husband would love that. I just didn’t have any on hand and was in a rush to get to baseball practice!
I followed your directions to the letter, but my pot came up “burn.” Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
That is the message your IP read?
I made this tonight and I got the burn message also.
Personally, I would deglaze the pot after the sausage with a little bit of the water and then I would put the pasta, followed by the sauces, and then the rest of the water. No stir, just try to make sure all the pasta is submerged. That’s just me — I’m paranoid about getting a burn notice!
I’ve made 3 times. Last time I got burn notice. I tried everything, even dumped contents into another bowl & scrubbed pot 2xs. Thankfully, it was alrdy soft enough at that point
Wondering if anyone has used ground beef instead of sausage?
Yes- it is very good with ground beef!
Can you freeze this please? Made this today and it was absolutely beautiful, my two kids are the pickiest eaters in the world and they both devoured it! Thanks
Yes you can Lauren.
I am a newbee to the instant pot and going to try this recipe. When you say 1 lb sausage, is this cut in chunks and browned or like ground beef?