Instant Pot Meat Sauce for the week
- Yield 8 servings
- Prep 5 minutes
- Cook 1 hour 25 minutes
Instant Pot Meat Sauce for the week sits in the Beef section of Regbie. The card serves 8 servings. The amounts and the method are both written on this page.
Ingredients
Yield: 8 servings
- 1 pound bulk Italian sausage
- 1 small onion, diced
- 6 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
- 2½ pounds beef chuck roast, cut into 1½-inch cubes
- Magic Mushroom Powder, or Diamond Crystal kosher salt
- 1 cup marinara sauce, the cook like Rao’s brand
- 14.5 ounces canned diced roasted tomatoes, drained
- ¼ cup chopped Italian parsley, skippable finish
Method
Turn on the sauté function on the Instant Pot. When it’s hot, add the sausage and diced onions.
Break up the sausage with a spatula and cook until it’s no longer pink and the onions are softened. Stir in the smashed garlic and cancel the sauté function.
Tip in in the cubed chuck roast and sprinkle on 1 teaspoon of Magic Mushroom Powder or Diamond Crystal kosher salt. Whisk well to combine.
Tip the marinara sauce on top and add the diced tomatoes. No need to stir at this point or add extra liquid!
Lock the lid on the Instant Pot and program it to cook under high pressure for 35 minutes. When the meat sauce is finished cooking, let the pressure drop naturally or release it manually after waiting 15 minutes.
At this point, stir the sauce. Then, turn on the Sauté function and bring the sauce to a rolling boil. Leave reducing the sauce for about 15 minutes or until you cook off 0.5 liter or about 2 cups. (You can skip the reduction part if you don’t mind a thinner sauce.)
While the sauce is simmering, use a silicone spatula or wooden spoon to smush and shred the chuck roast against the side of the pot.
When the sauce has reduced and thickened, taste it and adjust the seasoning with Magic Mushroom Powder or salt if needed.
Plate over cooked spiralized sweet potato noodles (swoodles!), spiralized zucchini noodles (zoodles!), or cooked spaghetti squash ! Scatter on minced Italian parsley if you’re feeling fancy!
Kitchen notes
- To make a Whole30-friendly supper, serve the sauce on noodle imposters made with vegetables!
- Some of a reliable veggie noodles include roasted spiralized sweet potatoes (a.k.a.
- Swoodles) , raw spiralized zucchini (zoodles) or summer squash, and Instant Pot steamed spaghetti squash .
