{"id":184083,"date":"2025-07-31T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/our-familys-favorite-spaghetti-is-made-in-the-instant-pot\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:53:06","slug":"our-familys-favorite-spaghetti-is-made-in-the-instant-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/our-familys-favorite-spaghetti-is-made-in-the-instant-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Family&#8217;s Favorite Spaghetti is Made in the Instant Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-i-love-this\">My Kindergartener Can Make This Recipe \u2013 And I Actually, Genuinely Love It<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image lindsay-headshot is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a parenting first!<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of matching your kid\u2019s age to a number of goal recipes \u2013 for example, <strong>when you\u2019re 5 years old \u2013 you learn how to make 5 recipes<\/strong>. <em>(I got this idea from Nita and Jess at Healthy Happy Eaters \u2013 they are wonderful.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My daughter\u2019s favorite dinner is spaghetti, so I thought making it in the Instant Pot might help it feel more manageable:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>it\u2019s one single pot.<\/li>\n<li>no cutting board required.<\/li>\n<li>it has higher sides so there\u2019s less splattering.<\/li>\n<li>no draining of boiling water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We started making it this way \u201cto help her\u201d but quickly realized\u2026 Instant Pot spaghetti is actually kinda special. It\u2019s silky, flavorful, and extra clingy. Makes for an ideal combo with <a href=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/house-favorite-garlic-bread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">house favorite garlic bread<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/air-fryer-broccoli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air fryer broccoli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/instant-pot-spaghetti?tp_image_id=131343\" data-pin-description=\"My whole family loves this Instant Pot Spaghetti! Silky, flavorful, a delightfully clingy. Easy enough for my kids to make it too!\" data-pin-title=\"Instant Pot Spaghetti\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131343\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:300px;height:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-960x960.jpg 960w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-183x183.jpg 183w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=480,height=99999,fit=scale-down\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=680,height=99999,fit=scale-down\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,height=99999,fit=scale-down\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instant-Pot-Spaghetti-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>These days, when my family requests spaghetti for dinner (made by me, or my daughter), THIS is the spaghetti they are asking for. Some people might be offended by the breaking of the noodles, which you have to do to get them to fit \u2013 but in our house we roll with it and the shorter noodles work great for kids.<\/p>\n<p>The ratios are just how I like them: meaty, saucy, so comforting. A home run hit with my kids and my husband every time.<\/p>\n<p>(But I\u2019d make this for myself even if I didn\u2019t have kids!)<\/p>\n<p>Hope you love it! If you love easy dinner recipes \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/dinner-ideas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out this mega page<\/a> of all my favorites!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full lindsay-sig\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" height=\"52\" data-pin-nopin=\"nopin\" src=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/instant-pot-spaghetti?tp_image_id=93813\" data-pin-description=\"My whole family loves this Instant Pot Spaghetti! Silky, flavorful, a delightfully clingy. Easy enough for my kids to make it too!\" data-pin-title=\"Instant Pot Spaghetti\" alt=\"Lindsay signature.\" class=\"wp-image-93813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lindsay-signature-notes.png 178w, https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lindsay-signature-notes-150x44.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1220px) 653px, (min-width: 780px) calc(51.67vw + 33px), calc(100vw - 32px)\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pinchofyum.com\/instant-pot-spaghetti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Kindergartener Can Make This Recipe \u2013 And I Actually, Genuinely Love It It\u2019s a parenting first! I love the idea of matching your kid\u2019s age to a number of goal recipes \u2013 for example, when you\u2019re 5 years old \u2013 you learn how to make 5 recipes. (I got this idea from Nita and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}