An easy recipe for Instant Pot linguine with parmesan, spinach and mushrooms.
Mario Brothers Casserole
Today’s recipe is a mushroom linguine pasta that can be made in just a few minutes with the help of your Instant Pot. The inspiration comes from a scene in the Super Mario Bros movie where the family is eating mushroom pasta. So get ready to savor a taste of the Mushroom Kingdom with its creamy sauce, savory mushrooms, and flavorful ingredients. This recipe was adapted from The Starving Chef.
Ingredients/Substitution Ideas
- Olive oil
- Onion–yellow or white
- Mushrooms–white or baby bella
- Garlic–or 1 tsp garlic powder
- Red pepper flakes
- Better than Bouillon chicken base–or veggie base
- White wine vinegar–or red wine vinegar
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- Linguine–or fettuccine, spaghetti (use only a 3 minute pressure cook time for spaghetti)
- Cornstarch
- Heavy cream
- Spinach–or 2 cups cooked broccoli
- Parmesan cheese–or gruyere
Steps
Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the oil and swirl around. Add in the onion and mushroom. Saute for 4 minutes. Add in the garlic and saute for 30 seconds.
Pour in water and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off pot.
Stir in red pepper, chicken base, vinegar, salt and pepper. Break the pasta in half and lay it in the pot in a criss cross pattern.
Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 5-10 minutes and then move valve to venting and remove the lid.
Stir in the cream and spinach. If sauce needs to thicken up then make a cornstarch slurry by stirring 1 Tbsp cornstarch with 1 Tbsp cold water and turning pot to saute setting. Stir the slurry into the pot to thicken.
Turn off Instant Pot. Stir in the parmesan cheese. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve and enjoy!
Notes/Tips
- Serve with garlic bread and steamed broccoli.
- I used my 6 quart Instant Pot*. You can also make this in a 3 or 8 quart pot.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container* in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- If you use another type of pasta you may need to adjust the cooking time. Here is the formula: look at the back of the box of pasta and see how many minutes it says to boil the pasta. If it’s 10 minutes you divide that number by 2 (=5) and then subtract 2 minutes. So you would pressure cook for 3 minutes. I usually use a 5-10 minute natural pressure release for pasta.
- Try adding in chicken tenderloins or bite size pieces of chicken thighs into the pot with the pasta if you’d like to add some meat to the meal.
- Other recipes you can make with spinach are Instant Pot Creamy Tortellini, Spinach And Chicken Soup and Spinach Artichoke Dip.
Did you know you can filter the recipes on my website to search by meat type, IP or Crockpot, low carb, gluten free, etc.? Use the filter to find exactly what you are looking for.
Mario Brothers Casserole
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes (plus 5-10 minute NPR)
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4–6 servings 1x
Description
An easy recipe for Instant Pot linguine with parmesan, spinach and mushrooms.
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup diced onion
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 2 1/2 cups water
- Pinch of red pepper flakes
- 1 Tbsp Better than Bouillon chicken base
- 1 Tbsp white wine vinegar
- 3/4 tsp Kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 8 ounces uncooked linguine
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch (if needed)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup spinach
- 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the oil and swirl around. Add in the onion and mushroom. Saute for 4 minutes. Add in the garlic and saute for 30 seconds.
- Pour in water and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off pot.
- Stir in red pepper, chicken base, vinegar, salt and pepper. Break the pasta in half and lay it in the pot in a criss cross pattern.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 5-10 minutes and then move valve to venting and remove the lid.
- Stir in the cream and spinach. If sauce needs to thicken up then make a cornstarch slurry by stirring 1 Tbsp cornstarch with 1 Tbsp cold water and turning pot to saute setting. Stir the slurry into the pot to thicken.
- Turn off Instant Pot. Stir in the parmesan cheese.
- Salt and pepper to taste. Serve and enjoy!
- Category: Pasta
- Method: Instant Pot
More Instant Pot Recipes with Mushrooms…
Instant Pot Chicken Mushroom Wild Rice Soup
A creamy soup that is full of lots of goodness–wild rice, chicken, mushrooms, carrots and celery.
Instant Pot Garlic Mushroom Chicken
A creamy sauce is spooned over mushrooms, tender bites of chicken (and optional broccoli). A delicious dump and go recipe that you can make with frozen chicken.
Instant Pot Polish Meatballs with Sour Cream Mushroom Sauce
A creamy delectable mushroom sauce covers well seasoned and tender meatballs. Made in your Instant Pot for an easy hands-off meal.
Instant Pot Mushroom Chicken with Green Beans
Instant Pot Mushroom Chicken with Green Beans—tender bites of chicken, mushrooms and green beans in a savory ginger soy sauce. Serve over rice for a tasty and easy dinner! Slow cooker instructions are listed in the notes section of the recipe card below. Pin this recipe for later! Instant Pot Mushroom Chicken with Green Beans
*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.
awesome dish. sauce was rich and creamy. I did use cornstarch. also I did add leftover rotisserie chicken. highly recommend
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you James for the 5 stars 🙂
What a dumb name! This should be called “Super Mario Bros. Casserole”! Made with home-made sourdough noodles and Parmesan Regianno cheese, this is SUPER!
lol!
Used regular spaghetti and cooked for 5 minutes in IP. The spaghetti was not cooked completely.
Hi Karen!
No heavy cream.. will 1/2 and 1/2 work??
Thanks.
Love me some mushrooms!😃
yes half and half will work, or you can use evaporated milk.
don’t have a instapot, can this be cooked in a pan on the stove?
Hi, the original recipe that I adapted it from used a pan on the stove. Here’s how to do it: https://thestarvingchefblog.com/mario-bros-movie-inspired-pasta-creamy-mushroom-pasta/
This sounds delicious as I often look for vegetarian recipes and I love using mushrooms. My question is whether I could substitute yogurt for the heavy cream since I try not to use heavy cream in my cooking. Thanks for all you do for us.
yes I think for sure you could use yogurt 🙂
Karen, if I wanted to put bite-sized fresh chicken thighs in this recipe, how would that affect the cooking time? Thanks.
Nevermind, it was time to start cooking dinner so I just DID IT! Worked perfectly with the information you had in the recipe. I just added the raw chicken in after the deglazing, then the pasta & cooked it like you said. Was amazing! Hubby has to have meat in EVERYthing so he was happy! Very delicious & EZ to make. I’m pretty sure we’ll be fighting over the leftovers…..again!
Oh I’m so glad it worked out well! It’s hard for me to cook without meat at my house as well 😉
Yes you were right…same cooking time
That was a very wild guess but I remembered some of your recipes with those bite-sized pieces were only cooked 5 min. Figured it would work or I could cook some more. Thanks so much for all these recipes.