Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Sauce for Pasta

Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Sauce (Bolognese) is great for meat lovers and vegetarians.  Choose whether or not, you want to add meat.  Choose the type of meat.

Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Sauce

We all love homemade spaghetti sauce that cooks all day on the stove.  With the Pressure Cooker, you can have that same taste with just a 10 minute cook time.

Meat lovers, use some Italian Sausage and/or any other ground meat you would like in your sauce.  I prefer a vegetarian sauce and this recipe is my favorite.

My husband loves this Pressure Cooker Spaghetti and Pasta Sauce with whole sausage and meatballs.  I’ve never been a huge fan of meat sauce.  I do, however, like to brown the sausage and meatballs and then remove them from the pot.  Then continue with the rest of the ingredients.

When we are ready to eat, I usually put the sausage and meatballs back into the pot to warm.  The husband can take the meat with his meal and I grab some sauce.  We both win.

However, sometimes I do just crumble up the sausage and/or ground beef/turkey and make this sauce.

For cooking on the stove top, the sauce would simmer all day.  I’d have to stay home and stir and check on the sauce.  It’s so great to get an all day pasta sauce in less than 30 minutes.

If you want to cook your noodles or macaroni at the same time as your sauce, try my Pressure Cooker Quick Spaghetti Dinner or my Pressure Cooker Beef and Macaroni for an easy one pot meal.

Turn on your Pressure Cooker and allow the pot to get completely hot.  Adding a fat to a hot pot, will make the stainless steel pot non stick.  If you add fat to a cold pot, your food will stick.

After the pot is hot, add your oil and start to brown the meat.

Break up the meat really well and add in your ground fennel.  If you have whole fennel seeds, just take the back of a spoon and smush them.

Be careful so they don’t go flying across your kitchen.

Roughly chop the onions and toss them into the pot.  Continue to sauté for a few minutes.

Garlic is best when you only sauté for a very short time.  So, add the garlic and sauté just one more minute.

Carefully add in the rest of the ingredients.  Make sure you use a good wine.  One that you would like to drink with your meal.

Never buy wine that is labeled for cooking.  It is cheap and pretty nasty.

The wine adds a terrific depth of flavor and I suggest not skipping the wine.

Lock on the lid and you are ready to cook!

Makes a Great Freezer Meal

Easy, right?  Home made pasta sauce in not much more time than it takes to open a jar of premade sauce.

If you want to have a one pot spaghetti dinner, try my Pressure Cooker Quick Spaghetti Dinner or my Pressure Cooker Beef and Macaroni (Bolognese), for a one pot meal.

Equipment Used

• Instant Pot Smart DUO60
• J.A. Henckels Classic 7-inch Hollow Edge Santoku Knife
• Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
• Culina Stackable (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
• Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
• Cilio Olivewood Spatula
• Rachael Ray Stoneware EVOO Oil Dispensing Bottle
• Alpha Armour Salt Box with Spoon
• Bellemain Porcelain Ramekins
• OXO Good Grips Cutting Board
• Reditainer Extreme Freezer Containers
• Freezer Labels

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Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Sauce

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Sauce (Bolognese) is great for meat lovers and vegetarians.  Choose whether or not, you want to add meat.  Choose the type of meat.

Course: Sauce

Cuisine: Italian

Servings: 6 servings

Author: Jill

Ingredients

• 2 pounds Italian sausage mild or hot, Optional, casings removed
• 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
• 1 Onion optional, chopped
• 3 - 4 cloves Fresh Garlic minced
• 28 ounces Diced Tomatoes
• 6 ounces Tomato Paste
• 30 ounces Tomato Sauce
• 3 teaspoons Dried Basil
• 2 teaspoons Parsley Flakes, dried
• 2 teaspoons Brown Sugar
• 2 teaspoons Sea Salt
• 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes crushed
• 1/4 teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
• 1/2 cup Red Wine/Cabernet a good Cabernet!
• 1/2 cup Fresh Water
• 2 teaspoons fennel seeds crushed
• Parmesan Rind chunk optional

Instructions

1. Turn your Pressure Cooker to Sauté or Browning mode and allow it to heat.

2. Add a Tablespoon of olive oil to the Pressure Cooker cooking pot and then dump in the sausage/ground beef.

3. Brown the sausage, breaking it up as you stir.
4. (If not using meat start here) Add the rest of the ingredients.

5. Lock on Lid and Close Pressure Valve

6. Cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.  When Beep sounds, allow a 15 minute natural release, then carefully do a quick release.

Recipe Notes

If you want a one pot spaghetti dinner, please see my Pressure Cooker Quick Spaghetti Dinner.

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Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Sauce for Pasta