Instant Pot Red Sauce Pasta

Instant Pot Red Sauce Pasta is a Penne Pasta that is pressured cooked in Instant post and combined with some simple yet delicious tomato-based red sauce. This recipe is not only a quick one but simply yum. I could say this instant pot pasta can be your saviour on busy weekdays.

First,

Hello from the other side of the world. A lot of you might know that I was in the process of moving so I took a little break from blogging. Well, I am trying to settling down and learning to survive in Canadian Winter 🙂 Ohh yessss! We finally moved to Canada 🇨🇦. So, Priya’s Curry Nation is now a Canada base food blog.

Well, There are a lot of things I want to share and I will be sharing a detailed post about my moving journey in the next Curry Nation Talks episode.

It feels like, I have officially joined the Instant Pot camp as Instant Pot is my only goto Kitchen Gadget these days and I am excited about it too. So, Let me get back to the recipe.

Those who are new to cooking and don’t know about Instant pot, Let me tell you that An Instant Pot is an electronic multicooker. It has multiple functionalities and there are different models available in the market. The model I have is Instant pot Duo mini.

Ingredients to make instant pot pasta

For the sauce:

We need tomatoes, garlic, salt, your favourite herbs like oregano, black pepper and olive oil. In fact, I have already shared my favourite tomato sauce recipe here. This time I just made everything in instant pot.

Other Ingredients:

Once you are done with your sauce, You will need your favourite pasta, water to boil, salt and a little bit of oil.

Preparation of pasta

• First, Cook your pasta.
• Now, you need to make a sauce for the pasta which takes 10 mins roughly. I am using canned pasta sauce here but you can use your freshly blended tomato paste as well.
• Assemble your cooked pasta with sauce
• and you are good to go 😉

Reasons to love this recipe,

• Very very easy to prepare
• Comparatively quick recipe as your pasta boiling process requires 4 minutes only.
• very tasty
• minimal ingredients are required
• Ingredients are easily available.

How to make Instant pot Pasta?

Cooking pasta in Instant pot

Add the pasta, water, oil, and salt to the inner pot of the IP. Mix them thoroughly.

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Close the lid and make sure the vent is in the sealing position.

Select the “Pressure Cook” or “Manual” setting and set the cooking time to 4 minutes at high pressure.

When it beeps, press the cancel button and then carefully move the vent to the open position and release the pressure.

When the pressure is released completely, carefully open the lid. Drain the pasta.

Making sauce for pasta

Set the Instant Pot to Saute mode and add the olive oil. When the oil is hot enough, add the garlic, black pepper powder, tomato puree and seasonings like oregano and basil. You can add a pinch of chilli flakes too to make it spicy. Mix it well.

Keep your instant pot on saute mode for 1 min and 30 seconds and keep mixing the sauce.

Now add cooked pasta and mix it well. keep on “saute mode” for 2 to 3 mins.

Now press the cancel button and set the IP in the Keep Warm mode.

Add some cheese on the top. Skip the cheese, if you want to make it vegan.

Serve it hot.

Other recipes you may like to check,

• Garlic penne with roasted cauliflower – my all-time favourite recipe.
• Stovetop tomato sauce pasta – This is a stove-top version of my simple tomato sauce pasta.
• Spaghetti agilo-e-oilo – Classic Italian spaghetti pasta recipe
• Creamy Spaghetti with toasted beans – It has a crunch of roasted beans and the freshness of lemon zest.