See this easy instant pot pasta soup recipe herewhere we quickly make a delicious instant pot pasta soup with marinara sauce. If you change the amount of time for cooking and also do not do natural pressure releasing method, the amount of water required can change.
#INSTANT POT PLAIN PASTA MANUAL#
Here we are only using water for the liquid part before cooking the pasta, as we are adding the marinara sauce later once the pasta is cooked.Īs I mentioned, I tried this method for pasta to water ratio in instant pot for farfalle pasta as well as penne pasta and they turned out perfect.Īlso we only use the natural pressure release method (instead of quick release) with a manual release later and for this amount of water and pasta ratio, this method is just perfect! If you want a more firm consistency, you may also slightly reduce the amount of water, but make sure not to use even a little more amount of water than the recommended amount, since using more water will make the pasta overcooked.Īlso the amount of water may slightly differ based on the brand or shape of pasta shells that you are using, so a basic rule that you need to remember is to use just enough liquid to cook the pasta, now that I realize you really do not need to immerse your pasta in water in the instant pot, since it will get cooked in the pressure. The instant pot pasta water ratio and time we take to cook the past in instant pot are very important since it can be a messy failure if you use a different amount of water of different total time for cooking. I used 6 quart instant pot to cook this amount of pasta as called in the instant pot pasta recipe below. Instant pot pasta dishes are the quickest and best if you are looking for quick and easy one pot dinners and this is the best method to cook pasta which I know so far! In fact we only cook the past for 2 minutes in the instant pot for this basic instant pot pasta recipe which is just enough to cook the pasta. It is also important to add the fat (I used a combination of butter and olive oil) so the pasta shells won't stick together once it is cooked. While you learn to cook the past using instant pot, the biggest advantage is that yo do not have to drain the pasta once it is cooked, since we only add enough water in the instant pot which will all get absorbed while the pasta gets cooked.īut don't worry the pasta won't be mushy or overcooked as we only use just enough water for cooking and also we cook only for the minimum amount of time in the instant pot, to avoid the pasta getting mushy or overcooked. We do not have to drain the pasta using the instant pot method, so nowadays I almost always cook pasta using my instant pot, unless there are specific recipe requirements where I have to do it the other way. Keep in mind that the amount of water used may slightly vary with different kinds of pasta shapes as well as different brands as even the flour used to make the pasta can have an impact on the cooking time and also the amount of water absorbed by the pasta.įor this instant pot one pot pasta recipe, I have used quite a different varieties of pasta successfully so I can recommend this method as a general guidance for easily cooking plain pasta using instant pot.Ī 6 quart instant pot is perfect to cook this amount of pasta as mentioned in the recipe.
While I mostly used the penne pasta to make the pasta in this way, I also used bow tie pasta/farfalle pasta (butterfly shaped) and also spaghetti (for spaghetti I used a different measurement for water to pasta ratio). We first make plain pasta in instant pot with little salt, olive oil and butter and then add marinara sauce, milk and cheese to the cooked pasta which makes it so simple to prepare yet very quick and delicious with minimal work to do.
This method usually works for me, but if you let it sit for so long the pasta can get overcooked, so you can do a gradual and slow manual pressure release after about 12 minutes of natural pressure release to avoid overcooking the pasta. So I almost always look out for options to cook with more of a natural pressure release method and a gradual and slow manual release after a while on natural pressure release. I do not recommend quick release for instant pot recipes, especially for pasta or anything with hot liquid for safety reasons and to avoid any hot liquid mess all over. Nothing fancy here, just the basics of cooking pasta perfectly in the instant pot!
#INSTANT POT PLAIN PASTA HOW TO#
This is basic instant pot one pot pasta recipe with added marinara sauce and some cheese and will help you to learn how to cook pasta in instant pot.
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