Instant Pot Greek Spaghetti—this spaghetti is not what you’re used to! It has a Greek flare with lemon, feta, cucumber, yogurt, tomatoes and more. This is a perfect summer dinner that is bursting with flavor.
Instant Pot Greek Spaghetti
When I was growing up I would play at my friend Sally’s house almost every day after school. Their mom, Margaret, would always make a dish she called Feta Spaghetti (the kids would call it Feta Spaghetta). I was always too shy and polite to accept Margaret’s offer of eating dinner with their family. But my mouth would be watering when she made that feta spaghetti. It smelled and looked amazing. I’m pretty sure Margaret’s version only had spaghetti noodles, butter and feta cheese.
I decided to play on the theme of feta spaghetti but add a few veggies and a protein to make it an all in one pot meal. It turned out to be a bright and colorful pasta dish that had loads of flavor. I highly recommend it!
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How long does it take to cook pasta in a pressure cooker?
It depends on the type of noodle. For thin spaghetti it will take less time than, say, a thicker lasagna noodle or orecchiette pasta. The best rule of thumb for cooking pasta is to look at the back of the pasta box. Take that number and divide by 2 and then subtract 1-2 minutes. For example, if it says to boil for 10 minutes you divide that number by 2 and subtract 1-2 minutes. So that would be 3-4 minutes of pressure cook time.
Remember that it will take time for the pot to come to pressure. This usually takes about 10 minutes. If the pot is full of cold ingredients it will take longer to come to pressure.
How much pasta per person?
I like to use 2 ounces of pasta per person. In the Instant Pot, I use 1 ¾ cups of water/broth per 8 ounces of pasta. So for a whole 16 ounce box of pasta I use about 3 ½ – 3 ¾ cups of water/broth.
What Pressure Cooker Did You Use?
To make Instant Pot Greek Spaghetti I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*. I love this Instant Pot because it has the yogurt making function which I use almost weekly. It has two pressure settings (high and low), and there are also little slots in the handles so that you can rest the lid there instead of putting it down on your counter-top.
Instant Pot Greek Spaghetti
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 minutes (plus 5 minute NPR)
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 6-8 1x
Description
This spaghetti is not what you’re used to! It has a Greek flare with lemon, feta, cucumber, yogurt, tomatoes and more. This is a perfect summer dinner that is bursting with flavor.
Ingredients
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 10 ounces dry spaghetti noodles (I used whole wheat)
- 1 (13 oz) package chicken smoked sausage, sliced into quarter inch slices (I used hillshire farm garlic chicken sausage)
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp red wine vinegar
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 cup feta cheese
- 1/2 cup sliced olives
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cup diced cucumber
- 1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
- 1/2 cup diced red onion
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
Instructions
- Add chicken broth to the Instant Pot. Break up the spaghetti so that it will fit in the pot. Scatter the spaghetti in a criss cross pattern into the pot. Add in the sausage in an even layer. Dump in the lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil, garlic powder, oregano, salt and pepper.
- Cover the pot and secure the lid. Make sure the valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 4 minutes. When the time is up let the pot sit for 5 minutes and then move the valve to venting. Remove the lid. Stir the spaghetti.
- Add in the feta, olives, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion and yogurt. Toss until coated with the yogurt.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*.
- Category: Pasta
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: Greek
*Karen Petersen is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
This recipe is absolutely delicious!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn’t change a thing!!!!!!!!!!
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YAY!!! 😊
Karen
Can you use some other protein besides the sausage, say chicken? Or, are this without the sausage? I cannot eat sausage, but this looks SO good!
You could leave out the meat if you want! No problem. Chunks of chicken would also work.
Would I just cut up 13 oz. of chicken? Same cook time?
Yes that would work. I might salt and pepper the chicken since it won’t have any flavor on it like the sausage does. As long as it’s cut into bite size pieces the cooking time should be fine.
Sorry, “make this without the sausage?”
We had this tonight I made it vegan….cooked the spaghetti in a vegetable broth then added Kalamata olives, roasted red tomatoes and a couple of handfuls of baby spinach. I’ve made this many times using numerous pots… it was fabulous in the instanpot! Ive spent the last 2 days home from work watching your videos! You’ve given me confidence to try using instantpot and my Discover card is that much more due to having to purchase all the cool accessories!!
Thank you for your videos… they’re informative…
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Haha Sue! Sorry about your Discover card. Hope you find lots of useful info!
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Very good! Thanks for posting.
We are not fond of cucumbers so I substituted 1 Zucchini and used /Kalamata olives. Bumped up the amount of veggies too.
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So glad you liked in Donnie!
Turned out delicious. I used Italian sausage because I didn’t have any smoked sausage. Look forward to making it again using the smoked sausage. In place of regular black olives, I used about 1/3 of a cup of kalamata olives. It gave the dish a really good flavor.
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I love this one too! I love the idea of kalamata olives.
Can we use linguine?
Yes I think that would be okay. Increase the pressure cooking time to 6 minutes.
Oh Karen, this was amazing! It may be my new favorite pasta dish! I had thin whole grain pasta so I went with 3 minutes instead of 4 and it came out perfect. Your pasta package conversion works so great. I used precooked Italian sausage, I couldn’t find the garlic chicken and it was still yummy. I would like to try the chicken one though. And I used all fresh veggies from my garden. This was such a fresh dish! I never would have thought of warmed cucumber but tomatoes are great this way so why not? And this was also great cold! I may also try it with penne. Thank you!
I’m so glad you liked it! I really love this one.
Can I cut this recipe in 1/2.?
yes you can. Here is a guide to halving instant pot recipes: https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/how-to-halve-instant-pot-recipes/
This stuff was soooo good! All I changed was more feta and yogurt.
Think I am going to try something like this as Mexican with cojota cheese , roasted corn and poblano pepper.
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I LOVE that idea and might steal it!
This one looks like it might be pretty good as a cold salad. Have you tried it?
I ate some of the leftovers cold and they were tasty!