Easy Cheesy Instant Pot Lasagna!
Servings: 8
Calories: 333kcal
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 8 No boil lasagna noodles
- 1 Cup water
- 2 Cups Mozzarella Cheese
- ½ Cup parmesan Cheese
Meat sauce
- 1 Pound of ground beef-For a less meaty and more cheese and noodle option- only use ½ pound of ground beef. You can substitute the ground beef with ground turkey ground chicken or Italian sausage
- 24 Ounces pasta sauce
- 1 Tablespoon garlic- minced-I always add this extra garlic but you can omit this if you prefer
Ricotta Cheese Filling
- 8 Ounces ricotta cheese
- 1 Egg
- 1 Teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ Teaspoon salt
- ½ Teaspoon pepper
Instructions
Make the meat sauce
- Brown the meat in a large sauce pan and drain grease.
- Add sauce and garlic.
- Simmer for 3 minutes.
Make the ricotta filling
- Mix ricotta cheese, egg, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning together.
- Set aside until you build your lasagna.
Build your lasagna-Use a 7 inch springform pan- for a 6 quart Instant Pot
- Break up no boil lasagna noodles and cover the bottom of the springform pan- try to cover the entire bottom without layer more than 2 or 3 noodles on top of an area.
- Cover pasta with a layer of meat sauce.
- Cover meat sauce with a layer of ricotta filling.
- Sprinkle ½ to ⅓ of mozzarella cheese on top of ricotta filling.
- Sprinkle ½ to ⅓ of parmesan cheese on top of mozzarella cheese.
- Repeat steps 1-5. Based on how much meat you used in your sauce, you will be able to create 2 or 3 layers.
Cook your lasagna
- Cover lasagna with foil and place on sling.
- Place trivet in Instant Pot.
- Add 1 cup of water to Instant Pot.
- Place lasagna, in the sling, onto the trivet.
- Closed lid and set valve to “seal” position.
- Cook on high pressure for 24 minutes.
- When the timer beeps, let pressure naturally release for 10 minutes.
- Remove lid and lasagna from Instant Pot.
- If desired, remove foil and place lasagna in the oven and broil for 5 minutes to brown cheese- or use your broiling lid if you have one for 5 minutes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 333kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 102mg | Sodium: 938mg | Potassium: 499mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 762IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 304mg | Iron: 2mg
