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title: Instant Pot Spaghetti
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date: 2020-02-03
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series: recipes
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tags:
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- instant-pot
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---
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# Instant Pot Spaghetti
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This is based on [this recipe][source], but made only with things you can find
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in Costco. My fiancé and I have made this at least weekly for the last 8 months
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and we love how it turns out.
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[source]: https://kristineskitchenblog.com/instant-pot-spaghetti/
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## Recipe
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### Ingredients
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- 1/2 kg ground beef (pre-cooked, or see section on browning it)
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- 3 1/4 cups water
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- 2 teaspoons salt
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- a small amount of pepper
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- 4 heaping teaspoons of garlic
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- 1/2 cup butter
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- 1/4 kg spaghetti noodles
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- 1 jar of pasta sauce (about 870ml)
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If you want it to be more spicy, add more pepper. Too much can make it hard to
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eat. Only experiment with the pepper amount after you've made this and decided
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there's not enough pepper.
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### Preparation
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Put the ground beef in the instant pot. Put the water in the instant pot. Put
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the salt in the instant pot. Put the pepper in the instant pot. Put the garlic
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in the instant pot. Put the butter in the instant pot.
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Stir for about 30 seconds, or until the garlic looks like it's distributed about
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evenly in the pot.
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Take the spaghetti noodles and break them in half. Place about a third of one
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half one direction, the second third another, and the last yet another. Repeat
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this for the other half of the pasta. This helps to not clump it together when
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it's cooking.
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Look at the package of spaghetti noodles. It should say something like "Ready in
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X minutes" with a large number. Take that number and subtract two from it. If
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you have a pasta that says it's cooked for 7 minutes, you will cook it for 5
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minutes. If you have a pasta that says it's cooked for 9 minutes, you will cook
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it for 7 minutes.
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Put the lid on the instant pot, seal it and ensure the pressure release valve is
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set to "sealing". Hit the "manual" button and select the number you figured out
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above.
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Leave the instant pot alone for 10 minutes after it is done. This lets the
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pressure release naturally.
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Use your serving utensil to open the pressure release valve. Stir and wait 3-5
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minutes to serve. This makes 5 servings, but could be extended to more if you
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carefully ration it.
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Serve hot with salt or parmesan cheese.
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## Browning Ground Beef
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Browing ground beef is the act of cooking it all the way through so it is safe
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to eat. It's called "browing" it because the ground beef will turn a grayish
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brown when it is fully cooked.
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### Ingredients
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- Olive oil
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- 1 teaspoon salt
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- The ground beef you want to brown
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### Preparation
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Take the lid off of the instant pot. Cover the bottom of the pan in olive oil.
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Sprinkle the salt over the olive oil. Place the ground beef in the instant pot
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on top of the olive oil and salt.
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Press the "sauté" button on your instant pot and use a spatula to break the
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ground beef into smaller chunks while it warms up. Mix the ground beef while it
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cooks. The goal is to make sure that all of the red parts turn grayish brown.
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This will take anywhere from 5-10 minutes.
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If you are using this ground beef for the above spaghetti recipe, you don't need
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to remove it from the instant pot. You can store extra ground beef in the fridge
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for use later.
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