Cheesy Ninja Foodi Spaghetti

QUICK & EASY NINJA FOODI SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Use the sear/sauté function on the Ninja Foodi to sauté the garlic and onions with the olive oil.
• Add the ground sausage. Brown the meat until cooked through and break up the sausage into desired size. Stir in the salt & Italian seasonings.
• Once meat is cooked, turn off the sear function and add the broth. Stir and scrape up any pieces of meat off of the bottom of the cook pan.
• Add the grape tomatoes and crushed tomatoes. There is no need to stir the ingredients. Gently add the water to the pan.
• Break up the spaghetti noodles in half and loosely layer in criss cross pattern. It is important to loosely layer the pasta to avoid it clumping together and to properly cook during pressure cooking.
• Add the pressure cooking lid and set the vent to the seal position.
• Set the pressure cook time to zero and press start. The time to come to pressure will be about 10 minutes or so. Once the pressure has been reached, set a timer for 10 minutes and allow for natural pressure release.
• After the 10 minutes of natural pressure release, switch the vent to release any remaining pressure. Then carefully remove the lid.
• Gently stir the pasta. Allow for a few minutes of rest time for any extra liquid to absorb.
• Serve with basil and freshly shredded pecorino or parmesan cheese if desired.

NINJA FOODI SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Turn the Ninja Foodi on the high "sauté" option. Once hot, add the ground beef, salt, Italian seasoning and onion to the coated inner pot.
• Stir ground beef, salt, Italian seasoning and onion constantly until the ground beef is broken up into small pieces and is lightly browned.
• If you use lean ground beef, you do NOT need to drain the grease from the pot. If you use a high fat content ground beef you will need to drain the grease. You can do so by either using a ladle to scoop the grease out or you can CAREFULLY remove the inner pot and pour the grease out. I HIGHLY recommend using a low fat ground beef to avoid this step all together.
• Once ground beef is lightly browned, add garlic and sugar. Stir together
• Add 24 ounces of beef broth. Save the last cup of beef broth for a future step. DO NOT STIR! If you stir, you are likely to get a burn or error message.
• Pour in 24 ounces of pasta sauce.
• Pour the remaining cup of beef broth into the pasta sauce bottle, put the lid on and shake. This will help get every last bit of sauce out of the jar. Pour into pot.
• Sprinkle red pepper flakes into pot.
• Add in fresh basil and stir.
• Turn off the Ninja Foodi. You no longer need to sauté anything in the pot.
• Add in 1/2 pound of spaghetti or fettuccine noodles (Half of a box). Do so by breaking the noodles in half, over the pot. Place noodles on top of other ingredients in a criss cross pattern. You want to alternate directions of the pasta so that they are not all stacked on top of each other in the same direction. Create a # pattern with the pasta noodles. DO NOT STIR!
• Make sure that all pasta is covered by liquid (or as much as possible). I just pushed down on the noodles with a spatula until they were covered with liquid.
• Pour in 6 ounces of tomato paste or thick pasta sauce right on top of the pasta. DO NOT STIR!
• Close the pressure cooker lid, turn Ninja Foodi back on and cook on high for 3 minutes.
• Once the timer goes off, natural release pressure for 3 minutes. Quick release remaining pressure. Turn off Ninja Foodi.
• Open the pressure cooker lid and stir pasta together. Be sure to stir well and ensure no pasta is clumped together.
• Add in fresh basil and stir again.
• Top with parmesan or mozzarella cheese if desired.
• Put the pressure cooker lid back on but do not turn the Ninja Foodi on. Let pasta sit for up to 8 minutes. If you used spaghetti noodles, let sit for 3 minutes. If you used linguini, let sit for 5 minutes. If you used fettuccine, let sit for 8 minutes.
• Remove pressure cooker lid, stir and serve! Enjoy!

CHEESY NINJA FOODI SPAGHETTI SQUASH WITH BACON

Steps:

• Halve squash lengthwise; remove and discard seeds. Place wire rack with handles and 1 cup water into inner pot of large multi-cooker. Place squash on rack. Lock pressure lid. Press pressure function; select vegetables setting. Set to long cook time (12 minutes). Start., Quick-release pressure. Remove squash, rack and water from inner pot; wipe dry. Separate squash into strands with a fork., Press saute function; select pork setting. Press timer; set to 15 minutes. Add bacon; cook and stir until almost crisp. With a slotted spoon, remove bacon to paper towels. Stir butter, brown sugar, salt and pepper into drippings. Add squash. Cook and stir until heated through. Press cancel. Stir in 1/2 cup cheese. , Transfer squash mixture to a 1-1/2 qt. baking dish; top with bacon and remaining cheese. Clean inner pot. Place dish on wire rack with handles; lower into inner pot. Cover with air frying lid. Press air fry function; select custom. Press timer; set to 7 minutes. Start. Cook until cheese is melted.

CHEESY NINJA FOODI SPAGHETTI

Steps:

• Press saute on Foodi and add in your olive oil, diced onions, salts and ground sausage or beef. Cook until meat is no longer pink. Then turn off pot.
• Spread cooked meat out on the bottom of your pot evenly so it covers it entirely.
• Pour in your jar of spaghetti sauce. Then pour in 2 c. of water or broth into your jar. Put lid back on and shake to get out remaining sauce. Pour this liquid into your pot. Do NOT stir.
• Break your noodles into thirds, equal size pieces. Sprinkle them into your pot on top of the liquid.
• Use a spoon to gently submerge them into the liquid but do NOT stir.
• Put pressure cooker lid on and close steam valve.
• Set to pressure cook, high for 9 minutes.
• Do a quick release and remove lid. Stir in 1 c. of mozzarella cheese so it melts.
• Then sprinkle on the remaining 1/2 c. of mozzarella cheese + parmesan on to the top of your spaghetti. Can add diced green onions now.
• Close your air fryer lid. Press air crisp 400 degrees for 5 minutes so it melts and gets golden brown on the top!