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Pressure Cooker Taco Ziti is an easy Tex-mex comfort food featuring pasta and ground beef flavored by salsa and taco seasoning, then smothered in cheese.
Pressure Cooker Taco Ziti
Pressure Cooker Taco Ziti is a great recipe for changing up Taco Tuesday or any other busy weekday! This Tex-mex comfort food adds salsa and taco seasoning to pasta and ground beef, then surrounds it all by ooey, gooey melty cheese. Preparing this dish in an electric pressure cooker saves time and energy, as there’s no need to stand around stirring or turn on an oven. One of he great things about this recipe is that you can adjust it to preference when it comes to heat and zip by using whatever taco seasoning and salsa you like. Here’s how I make it.
This recipe makes approximately 8-12 servings, depending on the size of each serving.
Cooking time is approximately 25 minutes.
Equipment needed
- electric pressure cooker (I used a 6 qt Zavor LUX LCD)
- silicone cooking spoon
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb ground beef
- 16 oz ziti
- 1x 24 oz jar salsa (I used a Mild Thick & Chunky)
- 1.5 jars water
- 3x 1.25 oz envelopes taco seasoning
- 8 oz shredded cheese
- sour cream (optional, for garnish)
Instructions
Plug in the electric pressure cooker.
Select the saute/brown setting.
Place the ground beef into the pot and brown it, adding in 2 of the envelopes of taco seasoning.
Once the beef has browned, add the pasta to the pot.
Add the 24 oz jar of salsa and the remaining taco seasoning envelope to the pot.
Pour the 1.5 jars of water over the top.
Stirring as little as possible, try to make sure all of the pasta is covered by liquid.
Set the pressure cooker to cook on manual high pressure for 6 minutes.
Once the cooking time has finished, do a quick pressure release.
Remove the lid from the pot and give the contents a good stir.
Add the shredded cheese to the pot.
Stir until cheese is melting, or consistency you like.
Serve immediately, garnishing with sour cream and additional cheese if desired.
Pressure Cooker Taco Ziti
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb ground beef
- 16 oz ziti
- 1x 24 oz jar salsa
- 1.5 jars water
- 3x 1.25 oz envelopes taco seasoning
- 8 oz shredded cheese
- sour cream (optional, for garnish)
Instructions
Plug in the electric pressure cooker.
Select the saute/brown setting.
Place the ground beef into the pot and brown it, adding in 2 of the envelopes of taco seasoning.
Once the beef has browned, add the pasta to the pot.
Add the 24 oz jar of salsa and the remaining taco seasoning envelope to the pot.
Pour the 1.5 jars of water over the top.
Stirring as little as possible, try to make sure all of the pasta is covered by liquid.
Set the pressure cooker to cook on manual high pressure for 6 minutes.
Once the cooking time has finished, do a quick pressure release.
Remove the lid from the pot and give the contents a good stir.
Add the shredded cheese to the pot.
Stir until cheese is melting, or consistency you like.
Serve immediately, garnishing with sour cream and additional cheese if desired.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 318Total Fat: 17gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 70mgSodium: 793mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 2gSugar: 3gProtein: 23g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. Your serving size and ingredients may differ.
16 comments
Love mexican food – don’t know why I don’t make Tuesdays – Tuesday Taco at home – would be a great idea!
This looks so delicious! Pasta is my weakness, especially now that my wife and I are doing Keto, but I’d love to make this for our family. I’m keeping this, so I can hopefully convert it to keto-friendly!
I love one pot dish and have just bought myself a pressure cooker and been searching for recipes to try it out. My kids love pasta so I would love to try making the taco ziti recipe as I know it will go down well
It’s so much easier when you can cook a meal in one pot rather than having loads of separate parts to do. This sounds like an easy and tasty dish to enjoy in the week with the family.
I love that this can all be completed in one pot, rather than having each element completed separately
That taco filling looks really tasty, I am trying to use my slow cooker more as I find it’s so much easier than cooking in the evening x
That looks so tasty, I need to use my pressure cooker more. I only seem to make two recipes in it
This looks sooo good! I like that there aren’t a hundred ingredients to it, that is one thing that drives me crazy about recipes, there usually is a tablespoon of just about everything in supermarket in them. I wonder whether this recipe would work with meat free mince?
I adore Tex Mex food and this sounds like a great alternative to Taco Tuesday, we shall be definitely trying it out with the kids next Tuesday 😀
That dish looks yummy. I love that this can all be completed in one pot, rather than having each element completed separately.
This looks absolutely delicious. I. am going to have to try this butt to use dairy-free cheese because I’m allergic to dairy but still, looks so yummy!
This looks so so good! Pasta is a family fave here, so easy and quick isnt it.
Quite an interesting recipe! I don’t think I’ve tried Taco Ziti before but that looks delicious!
Not seen this dish before but looking at what it includes I think I would enjoy it!
This sounds like such an incredible and delicious dish! I love using my pressure cooker and will definitely be giving this recipe a try!
Love the Tex-mex food! And this is worth trying at home. Thanks for sharing nice recipe.