This Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs is such a weeknight dinner! Now after 2 years of using this Instant Pot this is still one of the few meals I can make with confidence. (I have included links to some great products that I have bought on my own and we love. You can buy them as well through my online sales links)
Now we went to Seaside, Oregon over mid-winter break in 2016 and we were lucky enough to be able to stay in a condo! Since we had the kids with us we opted to meal plan before went and we took our Instant pots with us.
I am still trying to figure mine out so I was excited about the in-person demonstrations to suck up to 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!
Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs Ingredients:
- 2 Boxes Rotini Pasta
- 2 Jars Pasta Sauce
- 3 Lbs Mini-Meatballs
- 2 Pasta Jars Water
- Garlic Salt
- Italian Seasoning
**Not use rotini or penne the spaghetti noodles won’t work as well due to thinness and shape, I wasn’t going to question her the kids still devoured it**
**Note you can half this we made the big batch since we were feeding kids and wanting leftovers**
How To Make Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs:
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 personally 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**
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Dump in your meatballs into the pre-warmed up liner
Pour in the two jars of pasta sauce and then dump in 2 pasta sauce jars of water.
Dump in both boxes of rotini pasta.
Give all the ingredients in the pot a good stir to mix it 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 kids favorite canned green beans and a loaf of garlic bread. Quick and easy, plus it was way cheaper than taking the kids all out to eat!
What is your go to Instant pot dinner for your family?
Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs!!
This Easy Instant Pot Pasta and Meatballs is perfect for weeknight dinners with busy schedules plus its a frugal dinner. Just dump in all the ingredients and let it cook for a perfect weeknight dinner that requires no effort at all.
Ingredients
- 2 Boxes Rotini Pasta
- 2 Jars Pasta Sauce
- 2 Jars Water
- 3 lbs Mini meatballs
- Garlic Salt
- Italian Seasoning
Instructions
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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
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Dump in your meatballs into the pre-warmed up liner
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Dump in the two jars of pasta sauce
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Pour in 2 pasta sauce jars of water
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Dump in both boxes of rotini pasta
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Give all the ingredients in the pot a good stir to mix it up
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Hit the manual button and press the plus sign to say five on the display screen
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Allow it to cook a countdown will come back on the display as it nears being done cooking
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Serve and enjoy!!
Recipe Notes
**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**
Elisa says
If you half the recipe, you will need to add water. There is not enough liquid. You will get the burn notice. I added a half a cup of water.