This Ground Turkey Sauce for Pasta is THE easiest way to get a delicious gluten-free meal on the table that the whole family will more than gladly eat. Made with a few simple ingredients, this ground turkey pasta meal will be your new favorite go-to dinner!
This ground turkey pasta sauce is so easy to make and so delicious, it's gonna be one of those weeknight recipes you come back to again and again.
Even my kids ASK to have this for supper.
Who knew they would love ground turkey so much!?
❣️Why you'll love this recipe
See points above but bottom line is: pasta sauce with ground turkey is one of the BEST recipes to make on a busy weeknight for the whole fam.
Because you'll use your Instant Pot to get the ground turkey incredibly flavorful, this is mostly a hands-off recipe too.
Made with simple ingredients and ready in 30 minutes?! What's not to love❣️
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📝Ingredients for ground turkey pasta sauce
Here's what you'll need to make it:
- Ground Turkey
- Pasta sauce - pick your favorite brand of pasta sauce
- Strained tomatoes
- Dried oregano
- Dried basil
- Kosher Salt
- Fresh grated parmesan cheese
- Light cream - I recommend using 5%
See recipe card for quantities.
🔪Instructions
Making this ground turkey sauce is SO easy:
Turn Instant Pot to "Saute". Once "Hot", cook the ground turkey, breaking it up as you go with a wooden spoon.
Once the ground turkey is fully cooked, add the pasta sauce, strained tomatoes, oregano and basil and stir together.
Secure the lid. Select "Bean / Chili" (30 minutes on regular pressure). Once done, release the pressure and carefully remove the lid.
Add parmesan cheese and light cream. Stir and heat through. Serve on gluten-free pasta.
🔄Substitutions
- If you don't have ground turkey, you could use ground beef instead. If you do use ground beef, I would recommend draining the beef before adding the pasta sauce and strained tomatoes to get rid some of the extra fat. Because ground turkey is so lean, you don't need to drain it (win🏅)
🥡Storage and Leftovers
Leftover pasta and sauce is good in the fridge for up to 3 days. Just re-heat and serve.
Once you make this sauce, you can freeze it for up to 3 months.
Top Make Ahead Tip
Working from home and want to get supper on?
This ground turkey pasta sauce is perrrfect for that. Just make the sauce as written in the recipe card below and then put the Instant Pot on "Slow Cooker" mode.
Let the delicious tomato and parmesan cheese flavours meld together - ready whenever you are🍝
Hope you love this ground turkey pasta recipe like we do!
~April
🙋♀️More Gluten-Free Pasta Recipes
🍽️Pairing
Serve this pasta with an easy salad or side of veggies:
📖 Recipe
Ground Turkey Pasta Sauce (Instant Pot Recipe)
Equipment
- 1 Pressure cooker (Instant Pot)
Ingredients
- 0.5 kg ground turkey about 1 lb
- 1 cup pasta sauce
- ⅓ cup strained tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¼ cup Fresh grated parmesan cheese
- ½ cup light cream 5%
Instructions
- Turn on the Instant Pot to Saute function.
- Once Instant Pot reads "Hot", add the ground turkey. Cook the ground turkey thoroughly, breaking it up as you go with a wooden spoon.
- Once fully cooked, add the pasta sauce, strained tomatoes, dried oregano, dried basil and salt to the ground turkey. Stir together.
- Turn off the Instant Pot. Secure the lid.
- Set to "Bean / Chili" or manual for 30 minutes on normal pressure.
- Once finished, carefully release the pressure and remove lid.
- Add parmesan cheese and light cream. Stir and heat through.
- Serve hot on gluten-free pasta or set the Instant Pot to "Slow Cooker" and keep warm until ready to eat.
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