Vegetarian Instant Pot Baked Ziti
Vegetarian Instant Pot Baked Ziti - A quick & delicious pasta dish 'baked' in an Instant Pot. Ready in just 20 minutes. Makes a perfect weeknight meal minus all the precooking and layering. Instant Pot recipe + Stove Top recipe.
- Prep time
- 12 min
- Cook time
- 8 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 cups dried Pasta (penne or any tubular pasta)
- 2 cups Homemade Marinara Sauce or Tomato Sauce
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 3 Garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1/2 tsp crushed Red pepper flakes
- 2 cups Mozzarella Cheese, grated
- 2 cups Water or broth
- 1 tsp Salt
- Fresh or dried parsley or chives to garnish
- 3 tbsp oil
Instructions
- 1
Using the Saute function, heat oil in the inner pot. Once the oil if hot throw in the garlic, Italian herbs and onions. Stir and wait a couple minutes.
- 2
Add salt & water and to the pot and deglaze it, making sure no food is stuck at the bottom of the pot.
- 3
Add the pasta. Pour the homemade marinara sauce or any tomato sauce evenly covering all the pasta. Please do not stir.
- 4
Make sure all pasta is covered under the sauce. If not gently press the towards the bottom, just enough to be covered by the sauce.
- 5
Cover the lid, seal the vent and pressure for 8 minutes. It will take about 10-12 minutes for the pressure to build. Once the timer goes off quickly releasing the pressure.
- 6
Carefully open the lid and throw in the mozzarella cheese, folding it in gently.
- 7
Cover for a couple minutes and let the cheese melt and sauce thicken.
- 8
Garnish with parsley and Italian Herbs and serve warm.
- 9
Using a pot, follow step 1 and 2.
- 10
For Step 3 - cover the lid and cook for the pasta for the time given on the packaging instructions. For the Penne we used it was 12 minutes.
- 11
Throw in the cheese and gently fold it in. Cover for a couple minutes and let the cheese melt and sauce thicken.
- 12
Garnish with parsley and Italian Herbs and serve warm.