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10-minute Spaghetti (Instant Pot)

Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 10
Author Jenille

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp oil
  • 1/2 onion, sliced
  • 4 tbsp garlic
  • 1-2 lbs. of ground turkey secret: more flavorful and less fat than ground beef
  • 2 jars of tomato sauce I like Ragu because it's less tart and less pregnant than Prego
  • 1 box spaghetti (16 oz.)
  • 4 cups of water
  • 4 tablespoons of soy sauce cuz why not
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Pour yourself a glass of wine (or if the kids were extra snotty today, a shot). #nojudgementsister
  2. Turn on Instant Pot and set to SAUTE mode.
  3. When the bottom pan is hot, heat the oil, the saute onions and garlic.
  4. Brown the ground turkey.
  5. Pour in the tomato sauce, water, soy sauce, salt and pepper into the pot. Do not stir and if you must, minimally do this.
  6. Break up noodles in halves and submerge into liquid. Again, DO NOT stir - this is paramount.
  7. Close Instant Pot lid. Set cooking to MANUAL, high pressure, 10 minutes. Make sure your vent knob is set to seal.
  8. Refill your glass of wine. Pot will take some time coming to pressure and will display ON as it does. Once at pressure, it will start it's 10-minute countdown. During this time, I usually go check emails, take a selfie, take a shower, you get it. WALK AWAY from the cooking, Mama.
  9. Once the Instant Pot has counted down from 10 to zero minutes, vent it with QR (quick release).
  10. After the pin drops on the lid (which indicates it is safe to open), open the lid and stir the noodles right away to break them up because at this point, they're sticking...like that kid on your left leg. I use a pasta spoon to break it up.
  11. Close the lid for a minute or two and serve when the family is around the table...and only when the family is around the table.

Recipe Notes

P.S. I'm sorry to deceive you by calling it 10-minute spaghetti. After you brown the meat and let the machine come to pressure, it's 10 minutes on the Instant Pot display. If it's any consolation, you don't have to boil the noodles separately and create more mess to clean up.