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Instant pot: plant based spaghetti

  • 4 cups water
  • 56 ounce can crushed fire roasted tomatoes (or best quality crushed tomatoes)*
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 4 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 4 cups baby spinach leaves, tightly packed (or chopped spinach)
  • 16 fresh basil leaves
  • 16 ounces spaghetti
  • 1 can of mushroom (your choice of size)
  • 1 can of lentils (your choice of size)

Instant Pot Spaghetti

  1. In a medium bowl, stir together the water, tomatoes and their juices, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic powder, oregano, kosher salt, spinach, and whole basil leaves.
  2. Ladle just enough of the tomato mixture into the Instant Pot to cover the bottom.
  3. Break the spaghetti noodles in half. Working in batches, add the noodles to the Instant Pot in a fan shape so that they stack on each other, making as much space between the noodles as possible (if the noodles are directly next to each other they clump up — it doesn’t have to be perfect, just try to fan them out to make space).
  4. Pour remaining sauce over the spaghetti.
  5. Cook on high pressure for 6 minutes: Press the Pressure Cook button, making sure the “High Pressure” setting is selected, and set the time. Note that it takes about 10 minutes for the pot to “preheat” and come up to pressure before it starts cooking. (During cooking, avoid touching the metal part of the lid.)
  6. Quick release: Vent the remaining steam from the Instant Pot by moving the pressure release handle to “Venting”, covering your hand with a towel or hot pad. Never put your hands or face near the vent when releasing steam. Open the pressure cooker lid.
  7. Open the lid and stir, removing any clumps. Then remove the pot from the Instant Pot and allow to cool for 3 to 5 minutes for the sauce to thicken slightly. The sauce will thicken even more as it cools. Ladle into bowls and serve.

Note that this recipe makes a lot for leftovers.

The second time we made this recipe we added the spinach, a can of mushrooms and lentils.  It was great!  This concoction is very large in the pot.  Maybe next time I make it I should fan out some spaghetti, put some sauce, fan out more, put some sauce, etc.