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.
Instant Pot Pizza Pasta
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
15 mins
With this Instant Pot Pizza Pasta, you can whip up a dinner that’s got all the crowd-pleasing dinner– no joke – 15 minutes flat.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Instant Pot
Keyword: Instant Pot Pizza Pasta
Servings: 6
Calories: 570 kcal
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.