Instant Pot Masala Pasta | Desi Style Pasta | Instant Pot Recipe
Masala pasta, a desi style pasta made in Instant pot. A delicious pasta with goodness of vegetables, made quick and easy in Instant Pot.
Servings 5
Calories
Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 400 grams Penne Pasta I have used 250 grams Spelt pasta, 150 gram quinoa pasta
- 2 cups Mixed vegetables Potatoes, cauliflower, carrots and beans
- 3 tablespoon oil
- ½ teaspoon paav bhaji masala
- ½ teaspoon garam masala
- ⅛ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- 100 grams cheddar cheese grated/shaved
For the Sauce
- 1 no medium sized tomato
- 3 nos green chilies
- ½ inch piece of ginger
- handful of fresh coriander leaves
- handful of fresh mint leaves
- few curry leaves
Instructions
- In a food processor jar, take the chopped tomatoes, chilies, ginger, mint, coriander and curry leaves and process it into a sauce. Keep aside until use.
- Wash and chop the vegetables, as mentioned i have used potatoes, cauliflower, carrots and beans. My kiddos don't like peas, so I haven't used them.
- Start the Instant pot in sauté mode. Add oil, when hot, add the prepared tomato-chili sauce to this and sauté for a minute.
- To this sauce, add pav bhaji masala, turmeric powder, garam masala and salt. Mix well.
- To this now add the vegetables. Mix well so the sauce nicely coats the vegetables. Now tip in the pasta. Mix well.
- Now add 4 cups of water. The water must, just cover the vegetables and pasta and not way above the level.
- Cancel the saute mode of the IP. Close the lid and set the timer to 5 minutes. I use Duo plus, there is no adjusting valve settings here, incase you have to follow some steps there, please do accordingly.
- After the said 5 minutes of cooking, let the IP release pressure naturally for 8 minutes. Then use Quick pressure release.
- Open the IP then add the shaved/shredded cheddar cheese to this and mix well.
- Serve this delicious masala pasta warm. Enjoy the desi flavors.