Description
This is a recipe that you make with what you have and what you like! Mix and match your favorite ingredients.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound ground beef (or turkey or pork or sliced smoked sausage)
- 1 cup diced onion (or 1 diced shallot or 1 Tbsp minced dried onion)
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder (or 3 minced garlic cloves)
- 1/2 tsp black pepper (or white pepper)
- 1 Tbsp Italian seasoning (or make your own)
- 2 cups chicken broth (or beef broth or Better than Bouillon and water)
- 8 ounces spaghetti (or another type of pasta like penne)
- 2 (8 oz) cans tomato sauce (or spaghetti sauce or crushed tomatoes)
- 4 ounces cream cheese (or 1 can cream of mushroom/chicken soup or 1 cup sour cream or 1 cup alfredo sauce)
- 1 green bell pepper, cored and diced (or 8 ounces sliced mushrooms or a bag of frozen vegetables)
- 1 cup shredded cheddar (or mozzarella or a half cup of parmesan)
Instructions
- Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the ground beef and break it up. Add in the onion. Brown for 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease.
- Stir in the salt, garlic powder, pepper or Italian seasoning. Pour in the chicken broth and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot.
- Break the spaghetti in half and add it into the pot in a criss cross pattern.
- Dump the tomato sauce, cream cheese and green peppers on top. Don’t stir.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 3 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 5 minutes. Move valve to venting and remove the lid.
- Stir in the cheese and serve.
- Category: Pasta
- Method: Instant Pot