Instant Pot Savory Spaghetti Sauce with Bacon
Make your pasta unforgettable with this freezer recipe for Instant Pot Savory Spaghetti Sauce with Bacon! Savory and full of flavor, and loaded with bacon, suddenly your family will be okay with spaghetti for dinner every night!
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Ingredients
- ¾ cups dice Bacon
- 1 ¼ cups dice Onion
- 1 ½ cups cook Ground Beef
- 6 ounces Tomato Paste
- 32 fluid ounces Tomato Juice
- 2 teaspoons Salt
- ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
- ½ teaspoons Paprika
- 1 ½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons Parsley, Dried
- 2 teaspoons Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Celery Seed
- ¼ teaspoons Cloves, Ground
- ½ teaspoons Cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoons Garlic Powder
Serving Day Ingredients
These ingredients are added AFTER your meal has been frozen — for the day you serve and eat it.
- 8 ounces cook Spaghetti
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Nutritional Information
- Not available.
Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- **Due to the nature of pressure cooking there is always room for inconsistency. The times given here are based on 4 servings fresh. If you are using more servings you may need to increase your cooking time.**
- Place bacon in inner pot and saute until fully cooked. Remove from pot but leave drippings.
- Saute onion for 2 minutes.
- Add cooked bacon and remaining ingredients into pot.
- Lock lid into place and seal steam nozzle.
- Cook on meat setting or manually for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook spaghetti.
- Quick release pressure on spaghetti sauce.
- Serve sauce over spaghetti.
Freeze For Later Cooking Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Place bacon in inner pot and saute until fully cooked. Remove from pot but leave drippings.
- Saute onion for 2 minutes.
- Add cooked bacon and remaining ingredients into pot.
- Lock lid into place and seal steam nozzle.
- Cook on meat setting or manually for 15 minutes.
- Quick release pressure.
- Let cool.
- Divide among indicated number of freezer containers. Label and freeze.
Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- **Depending on your container size/shape and your serving size, you may need to adjust cooking times given as it is based on 4 servings frozen in a 64 ounce container.**
- Place frozen contents into inner pot.
- Saute for 5 minutes.
- Lock lid into place and seal steam nozzle.
- Cook on manual setting for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook spaghetti.
- Quick release pressure.
- Serve sauce over spaghetti.
2 Comments
Join the discussionSome of these measurements are not in units you would usually buy the ingredients in. For example, bacon is typically sold by a strip, not by volume, so I have to guesstimate how many strips will make up 1.5 cups when diced. Similarly ,ground beef is sold by weight… seems like 3 cups will be about 1.5 pounds.
Aaron, the ingredients are listed this way to show how much of each item is needed to prepare the recipe. So yes, you would need to do those conversions yourself.
Paying Once A Month Meals members, however, get a grocery shopping list with all of the ingredients broken down by how they are purchased. For example: Bacon is listed on the grocery shopping list in pounds as that is how you purchase it from the meat counter. The pounds are then converted to cups on the prep sheet to help you prepare the bacon properly. Then lastly, the bacon is listed in cups on the recipe card to know how much of what you purchased, then prepped, needs to go in that specific recipe.
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