Quick Easy Ninja Foodi Spaghetti Recipes

NINJA FOODI SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Turn the Ninja Foodi on the high "sauté" option. Once hot, add the ground beef, salt, Italian seasoning and onion to the coated inner pot.
• Stir ground beef, salt, Italian seasoning and onion constantly until the ground beef is broken up into small pieces and is lightly browned.
• If you use lean ground beef, you do NOT need to drain the grease from the pot. If you use a high fat content ground beef you will need to drain the grease. You can do so by either using a ladle to scoop the grease out or you can CAREFULLY remove the inner pot and pour the grease out. I HIGHLY recommend using a low fat ground beef to avoid this step all together.
• Once ground beef is lightly browned, add garlic and sugar. Stir together
• Add 24 ounces of beef broth. Save the last cup of beef broth for a future step. DO NOT STIR! If you stir, you are likely to get a burn or error message.
• Pour in 24 ounces of pasta sauce.
• Pour the remaining cup of beef broth into the pasta sauce bottle, put the lid on and shake. This will help get every last bit of sauce out of the jar. Pour into pot.
• Sprinkle red pepper flakes into pot.
• Add in fresh basil and stir.
• Turn off the Ninja Foodi. You no longer need to sauté anything in the pot.
• Add in 1/2 pound of spaghetti or fettuccine noodles (Half of a box). Do so by breaking the noodles in half, over the pot. Place noodles on top of other ingredients in a criss cross pattern. You want to alternate directions of the pasta so that they are not all stacked on top of each other in the same direction. Create a # pattern with the pasta noodles. DO NOT STIR!
• Make sure that all pasta is covered by liquid (or as much as possible). I just pushed down on the noodles with a spatula until they were covered with liquid.
• Pour in 6 ounces of tomato paste or thick pasta sauce right on top of the pasta. DO NOT STIR!
• Close the pressure cooker lid, turn Ninja Foodi back on and cook on high for 3 minutes.
• Once the timer goes off, natural release pressure for 3 minutes. Quick release remaining pressure. Turn off Ninja Foodi.
• Open the pressure cooker lid and stir pasta together. Be sure to stir well and ensure no pasta is clumped together.
• Add in fresh basil and stir again.
• Top with parmesan or mozzarella cheese if desired.
• Put the pressure cooker lid back on but do not turn the Ninja Foodi on. Let pasta sit for up to 8 minutes. If you used spaghetti noodles, let sit for 3 minutes. If you used linguini, let sit for 5 minutes. If you used fettuccine, let sit for 8 minutes.
• Remove pressure cooker lid, stir and serve! Enjoy!

QUICK & EASY NINJA FOODI SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Use the sear/sauté function on the Ninja Foodi to sauté the garlic and onions with the olive oil.
• Add the ground sausage. Brown the meat until cooked through and break up the sausage into desired size. Stir in the salt & Italian seasonings.
• Once meat is cooked, turn off the sear function and add the broth. Stir and scrape up any pieces of meat off of the bottom of the cook pan.
• Add the grape tomatoes and crushed tomatoes. There is no need to stir the ingredients. Gently add the water to the pan.
• Break up the spaghetti noodles in half and loosely layer in criss cross pattern. It is important to loosely layer the pasta to avoid it clumping together and to properly cook during pressure cooking.
• Add the pressure cooking lid and set the vent to the seal position.
• Set the pressure cook time to zero and press start. The time to come to pressure will be about 10 minutes or so. Once the pressure has been reached, set a timer for 10 minutes and allow for natural pressure release.
• After the 10 minutes of natural pressure release, switch the vent to release any remaining pressure. Then carefully remove the lid.
• Gently stir the pasta. Allow for a few minutes of rest time for any extra liquid to absorb.
• Serve with basil and freshly shredded pecorino or parmesan cheese if desired.