This Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs is such an easy weeknight dinner! Now, after two years of using this Instant Pot, this is still one of the few meals I can make with confidence. And it's easy enough that the teenagers have made it as well!
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We went to Seaside, Oregon, over mid-winter break in 2016 and were lucky enough to stay in a condo! Since we had the kids with us, we opted for a meal plan before going,g and took our Instant Pot with us.
I am still trying to figure mine out, so I was excited about the in-person demonstrations to suck up her Instant Pot knowledge. Don't worry. We made other recipes I can't wait to share with you, either! Eating in the condo saved us so much money!
**Not use rotini or penne. The spaghetti noodles won't work as well due to their thinness and shape.**
**Note you can half this to fit in a smaller Instant Pot this was made in a large instant pot.**
Put a splash of water in the inner liner pot and turn the Instant Pot onto saute. We made this dinner in her 8-quart Instant Pot (you can see it ->here on Amazon). I have the 6 Quart Instant Pot, but this amount won't fit in mine, so we used her. However, I will be doing this as halved in mine.
**Instant Pot hack - I learned if you flip it to saute right away it warms up the inner liner to lower the amount of warm-up time for cooking the food**
Dump the meatballs into the pre-warmed up insert in the Instant Pot.
Pour in the two jars of pasta sauce and then dump in two pasta sauce jars full of water.
Dump in both boxes of rotini pasta.
Give all the ingredients in the pot a good stir to mix everything up.
Hit the manual button and press the plus sign to say five on the display screen
Allow it to cook a countdown will come back on the display as it nears being done the cooking.
Serve and enjoy!!
We served ours with the kid's favorite canned green beans and a loaf of garlic bread. It was quick and easy, plus it was cheaper than taking the kids all out to eat!
What is your go-to Instant pot dinner for your family?
Instant pot is a great way to make dinner fast on busy weeknights! As well as dinner, it is easy to meal prep for the week.
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