Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs!!
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This Easy Instant Pot Pasta and Meatballs is such an easy weeknight dinner! Meatballs, pasta sauce, and rotini all cook together in one pot in about 25 minutes, and it’s so easy that my adult children have made it on their own at home. The best part is that it is budget friendly, kid approved, and one of the few Instant Pot meals I make with total confidence.
We first made this on a winter break trip to Seaside, Oregon, where we stayed in a condo and brought our Instant Pot along. Cooking there saved us so much money compared to eating out with the kids (we had seven kids between the two families), and this dinner became a family favorite. We served it up with green beans and garlic bread, but really any easy side dishes will work.
Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs Ingredients:
**Note use rotini or penne. Spaghetti noodles won’t work because they’re too thin and the wrong shape.**
**Note you can half this to fit in a smaller Instant Pot this was made in a large instant pot.**
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How To Make Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs:
Put a splash of water in the inner liner pot and turn the Instant Pot onto sauté. 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 hers. However, I half this in mine.
**Instant Pot hack – I learned if you flip it to sauté 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 Instant Pot insert.
Pour in the two jars of pasta sauce, then add two jars of water.
Dump in both boxes of rotini pasta.
Stir all the ingredients in the pot to mix everything.
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, easy, and cheaper than taking the kids all out to eat!
What is your go-to Instant Pot dinner for your family?
Instant Pot Recipes
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. Check out my collection of Easy Instant Pot recipes -> here! Below are some of my family’s favorites!
What To Serve With Instant Pot Pasta:
- Garlic Pull-Apart Bread
- Easy Cheesy Monkey Bread
- English Muffin Garlic Bread
- Pull-Apart Garlic Cheese Bread
- Kernel Corn
Easy Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 32 ounces Rotini Pasta
- 52 Ounces Pasta Sauce
- 52 Ounces Water
- 3 Pounds Mini meatballs
- Garlic Salt
- Italian Seasoning
Instructions
- 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
- Dump in your meatballs into the pre-warmed up liner
- Dump in the two jars of pasta sauce
- Pour 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 cooking
- Serve and enjoy!!
