Instant Pot Expat Spaghetti Sauce

I don’t know about where you call your current host culture, but in ours, the ingredients for spaghetti sauce are readily available. Before we moved to a larger city, we couldn’t really find jars of spaghetti sauce like we can now (for a price, ha). I found this recipe below to be somewhat easy to maintain, and I even oftentimes threw all my tomatoes in my blender to roughly chop if I didn’t have the time (and it totally turned out great). Use this recipe to enjoy spaghetti OR even make my Expat Lasagna for your next expat meal!

Instant Pot Spaghetti Sauce

30 minutes - serves 4-6

1 kg chicken or your preferred ground meat

2 tbs ghee or your preferred oil

2 onions diced

2 carrots diced

1 head garlic minced

1 tbs dried oregano

1 tbs dried thyme

1 tbs dried basil

1 tbs sugar

1 tbs soy sauce

8 tomatoes diced

4 small cartons of tomato puree

salt & pepper

1. Set the Instant Pot to Saute mode and add oil. Once hot, add onions and carrots and saute 7-8 minutes until onions are translucent.

2. Add garlic and saute until fragrant. Add kheema and break apart with spatula.

3. Once meat is cooked, add remaining ingredients and stir until incorporated. Hit cancel on the IP.

4. Cover the lid and cook on high pressure for 18 minutes.

5. Quick release the valve and serve with your favorite cooked pasta.