How To Cook Spaghetti Squash in Instant Pot
Learn How To Cook Spaghetti Squash in an Instant Pot for a quick and easy dinner. The cooking time of this spaghetti squash is only 8 minutes in the pressure cooker. This tasty vegetarian meal is quick to prepare and will leave you satisfied. The squash is cooked until it is tender and moist and tastes like a fancy pasta dish when paired with marinara sauce in its own boat. It is seriously yummy!
Servings: 4
Calories: 160kcal
Ingredients
- 1 large spaghetti squash
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 3 cups marinara sauce out of a jar or homemade
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut your squash in half from stem to base, scoop out all the seeds.
- Place the trivet that came with your Instant Pot on the bottom of the Instant Pot.
- Add 1 cup of water to the pressure cooker.
- Put in your spaghetti squash facing each other, but with space between them. If your squash is too big to fit, cut it into quarters.
- Secure the lid on the Instant Pot, set it to "sealing". Set to 8 minutes on high pressure.
- Meanwhile, saute ½ onion and 3 cloves of garlic in 1 tablespoon of olive oil until translucent, about 4 minutes.
- Add 3 cups of marinara sauce and 1 teaspoon of oregano to the onion and garlic mixture and heat it up.
- When the timer of the Instant Pot beeps, signaling that it is done, switch to "venting" to release steam. Be sure to use a long-handled spoon or oven mitt so you don't get burned from the steam as it spurts out!
- When the pressure is fully released and the pressure indicator has dropped, remove the lid.
- Then, use tongs to move the spaghetti squash to a cutting board.
- Your squash should be tender when pierced with a fork.
- Using a fork, pull up threads of "spaghetti", use a spoon to transfer the "spaghetti" to the pot with the marinara sauce, or you can just place "spaghetti" on a plate and serve the heated marinara sauce on top
- Alternatively, if mixing the "spaghetti" noodles into the marina sauce, after it is mixed, spoon the marinara mixture back into the squash "boat".
- If you like, you can put mozzarella cheese or parmesan cheese on top and broil in the oven for a couple of minutes.
- However, we like to add cottage cheese to ours and simply dig in! Yum!
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Serving: 1grams | Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 913mg | Potassium: 842mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 1094IU | Vitamin C: 20mg | Calcium: 97mg | Iron: 3mg
