Name: Instant Pot Goulash
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef; 1 small onion; 1 tbsp minced garlic; 30 oz tomato sauce; 15 oz can diced tomatoes; 2 tbsp Italian seasoning; 3 cups penne or elbow pasta; 2.5 cups water; 3 whole bay leaves; 1 tsp seasoned salt (to taste); 15 oz can corn; 15 oz can green beans

This quick and easy recipe for Instant Pot Goulash is a must-have recipe! It will save you on busy nights when you’re tempted to get take out. Five minutes in the pressure cooker is all it takes.

Picture this: It’s been a crazy busy day (like always) and your feet are tired, your back is tired, your eyes are tired and about to fall out of your face. Then you realized it’s 6 pm and the house is a mess, the kids are needing your attention, and asking if you’re going to possible feed them any type of food before they go to bed. Sigh. You reach for your phone to order take out and *SMACK*, I knock that phone out of your hand because NO! You don’t need to waste your money on eating out just because you don’t have time to cook.

If you have ground beef, pasta, a few other ingredients and about ten minutes, then you have plennnnnnty of time to make this Instant Pot Goulash. Don’t have an Instant Pot or other type of pressure cooker? No problem. You can still make Goulash on the stove. I don’t have an actual Instant Pot. I have this Bella Pressure cooker which works amazingly well.

So stop making excuses for getting take out when you can make this Instant Pot Goulash in less time that it would take to order and get the bad-for-you fast food!

Instant Pot Goulash

Mandy Bird

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Total Time 10 mins

Course Main Course

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef
1 small onion
1 tbsp minced garlic
30 oz tomato sauce
15 oz can diced tomatoes
2 tbsp Italian seasoning
3 cups penne or elbow pasta
2.5 cups water
3 whole bay leaves
1 tsp seasoned salt to taste
15 oz can corn
15 oz can green beans

Instructions

Turn the pressure cooker to saute. Add ground beef, onion, garlic and seasoned salt. Cook until meat is browned.
Add tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, Italian seasoning, water, pasta and bay leaves.
Set the pressure cooker to manual high pressure or the pressure cook mode for 4 minutes.
When the time is up, do a quick release.
Remove bay leaves and stir it all up. Add corn and green beans and stir again. Place lid back on the pressure cooker and let sit a couple minutes on warm setting. Serve with Parmesan cheese on top.