Do you love one-pot meals? I have one for you, it’s the Instant Pot Italian Sausage Pasta.
An electronic pressure cooker is a great way to put a hearty meal on the table in no time. Sometimes we are all hard pressed thanks to work to put together a quick meal. Your Instant Pot is a great way to speed up dinner. This Instant Pot Italian Sausage and Sauce recipe is a great way to quickly put together a large inexpensive meal on the table quickly.
This recipe contains 1 pound of Italian sausage, it is cooked along with the pasta and the sauce, so it makes for a great one-pot meal. When Italian sausage cooks inside of pasta sauce it adds so much flavor. You can use an inexpensive sauce if you like, as the Italian sausage will do the work in flavoring up the sauce. We will begin by browning the sausage in the cooker, and then removing the sausage, slicing it up, and then we will add the sauce, some additional water, and then the pasta.
You may not realize it, but you can cook pasta in Instant Pot. We will cook this dish for 8 minutes on the manual setting, the directions are the same for the 6 and the 8-quart models. We will add some additional water to the sauce so the pasta has enough water to cook properly. I personally like to use Barilla pasta, but I have also used the Fido Vermicelli brand noodles for this recipe as well. I have had great luck with both types of pasta. You may want to experiment with your favorite type of pasta.
Instant Pot Pasta Trouble Shooting
If when you are performing a quick release on the Instant Pot, and the sprays out a milky liquid, stop the quick release and let the pot reduce pressure naturally.
Make sure you use 2 cups of liquid for every 4 ounces of pasta
You may want to add oil to decrease foaming
Quick release carefully if you have any foaming stop the quick release, and allow the Instant Pot to come down to pressure normally
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Instant Pot Garlic Pepperoncini Beef
Instant Pot Macaroni and cheese
Instant Pot Italian Sausage Pasta
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound Italian sausage links
- 48 ounces pasta sauce
- 2 cups water
- 1 pound pasta
Instructions
- Heat your Instant Pot on saute. When the pot is warmed, add olive oil. Saute sausage until it is about 50% done. Remove sausage, slice into links. Wipe out excess oil from the Instant Pot with a paper towel. Add sausage back to the Instant Pot. Add pasta sauce to the Instant Pot.
- Rinse the jars of pasta sauce with the water and pour the water into the Instant Pot. If using spaghetti break in half and add to the Instant Pot. Cook on manual high for 8 minutes. Perform a quick release. Serve immediately. Makes 6 to 8 servings. This recipe was written for a 2-quart pressure cooker. if your pressure cooker is larger there are no adjustments needed to this recipe.
Susie Salins says
Question – if I want to use a different pasta such as gemelli – how do I adjust the time?
Stephanie says
I would not adjust the time, please keep the weight of the pasta the same. If you are using tiny pasta, you may then want to reduce the cooking time slightly. When I say “tiny pasta” I mean pasta like anci de pepe, orrzo, or something small like that.
Peanut says
My whole family enjoyed this one.
John says
How long do you brown the sausages?
Stephanie says
I would brown them about halfway, meaning I wouldn’t cook them all the way through, get them nice and browned on the outside.
Dawn Morgan says
I forgot to put it in the crockpot in the morning, so I found this recipe for my Instant Pot. I made it with close to 2lbs of sausage and added 3 extra minutes to the time. It was fabulous!!!!! My husband and 2 boys (5 & 7) absolutely devoured it and all had seconds.
We used Barilla pasta, Ragu sauce, and Primio sweet Italian sausage links.
Cara says
I found this recipe when I was in need of a last minute dinner after getting home from work using ingredients that I already had in the house. The best part was that it could be prepared in one pot. I had not thought about cooking pasta in the pot with the other ingredients until I saw this. So easy! I will be making this again. It got a thumbs up from my boys too!,
Calvin Nicholson says
After 10 Minutes, this came up with Burnt on my Instant Pot after approximately 10 minutes, so I cancelled and quick released all the pressure. I opened it and everything was cooked with a small amount of pasta and sausage burnt to the bottom.
Going to try some more water next time.
Instant Pot DUO Plus 8 Qt 9-in-1
Stephanie says
Just curious here, how did you place the ingredients in the pot?
Shirley Barton says
What size instant pot I need to make this? I have a 3 quart will this work?
Stephanie says
It should work fine as listed.
Ronnie says
I did the recipe in my 3 quart exactly as it specified. The pasta was way undercooked.
Cherie Swatek Fedder says
I personally would remove the skin from the sausage I I don’t care to have to take it out after browning it. Way to messy and more time spent. Just a thought.
Stephanie says
Thank you for sharing. I love the skin on the sausage 😉 What’s awesome about cooking? You can modify recipes to your personal preferences. I hope others try your suggestion.
Pat Cody says
Since I don’t yet have an Instant Pot (it’s on my wish list) I’m thinking I could do this on the stovetop. Never thought about cooking the spaghetti in the sauce. Your thoughts? Would stovetop yield similar results?
Stephanie says
I think it could, make sure you use a really large pot. Barilla makes a quick cooking pasta that is made to cook like this, you may want to try it. I don’t know how it will work across all brands of pasta. I am only familiar with the barilla quick cooking kind.
Stephanie says
I think this would work ok on the stove top. I don’t know the exact cooking times. Again, it should work just fine.
Stephanie says
You could easily do this one the stove top, I would cook everything the same way, it would most likely take about 35 to 40 minutes to cook.
Angela Paulsen says
You don’t say how large the Instant Pot is. And, I have a 2 qt electric pressure cooker. Can you recommend how to cut this portion down for me?
Stephanie says
I will correct the recipe for my size of cooker. I am so sorry I left that off. If yours is a 2 quart cooker, I would cut everything by 1/3 EXCEPT the cooking time. I really designed the recipe to go with the 2 jars of sauce and 1 pound of sausage, as those are the common sizes of purchasing each one.
Stephanie says
I have the 2 quart instant pot. So I don’t think I need to cut anything down on this one.
Brenda Cox says
Thank you for the recipe!