• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Feisty Tapas logo

  • Home
  • Instant Pot
    • Instant Pot Recipes
    • Instant Pot Duo Crisp Recipes
    • Instant Pot Tips and Tricks
  • Thermomix Recipes
  • Recipes with both Thermomix & Instant Pot
  • Air Fryer
  • Gadget-Free Recipes
  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Instant Pot® UK Community Recipe Index
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Pressure Cooker
  • Air Fryer
  • Thermomix
  • About
    • E-mail
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • search icon
    Homepage link
    • Pressure Cooker
    • Air Fryer
    • Thermomix
    • About
    • E-mail
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • ×
    Home » Instant Pot

    Instant Pot Seafood Pasta

    Published: Aug 27, 2016 · Modified: Dec 12, 2023 by Maria Bravo · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

    Jump to Recipe

    I needed a quick dinner tonight and it had to be seafood. I absolutely love seafood. This One Pot Pressure Cooker / Instant Pot Seafood Pasta is very tasty, rather easy and also rather farfetchedly in the style of a quick Spanish fideuá, with thicker pasta.

    Pressure Cooker Seafood Pasta (with Instant Pot instructions)

    Sorry for the rubbish photography but I'm blogging this one quickly for the members of my Pressure Cooking UK with Feisty Tapas Facebook group before I forget the recipe as this Pressure Cooker Seafood pasta was improvised in the Instant Pot tonight.

    The advantage of the Instant Pot over a conventional pressure cooker is the advantage of programming it and not needing to supervise it.

    Pressure Cooker Seafood Pasta (with Instant Pot instructions)
    After opening the lid
    Pressure Cooker Seafood Pasta (with Instant Pot instructions)
    A few minutes later

    Another advantage is that you can decide whether to slow cook on pressure cook in it depending on how much time you have in your hands. You can steam vegetables, cook rice and even make yoghurt in the Instant Pot DUO 7 in 1.

    You can find all my pressure cooker/Instant Pot recipes here. If you are just getting started with your Instant Pot, you might like to read the Beginners' Guide I wrote for Instant Pot UK.

    Ready for the recipe?

    📖 Recipe

    Photo of delicious Instant Pot Seafood Pasta on a white plate

    Instant Pot Seafood Pasta

    A delicious and super easy Seafood Pasta made even easier thanks to the Instant Pot
    Print Recipe Pin Recipe Save Recipe Recipe Saved!
    Prevent your screen from going dark
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Spanish
    Servings 2 people (or one very greedy person)

    Equipment

    • Instant Pot or pressure cooker

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil EVOO
    • 80 g onion chopped
    • 2 garlic cloves chopped
    • 1 small carrot chopped
    • 1 quarter red pepper chopped
    • 80 ml dry white wine I used prosecco since that’s what I had, decadent I know
    • 130 g frozen mixed seafood Waitrose, straight from freezer
    • 460 ml vegetable stock I make my own, find the recipe here, would be great with fish stock (fumet)
    • 140 g macaroni Waitrose’s to be exact
    • 1 tablespoon tomato purée
    • 1 teaspoon mixed herbs
    • Salt
    • Black pepper freshly ground
    • Fresh lime or lemon juice optional

    Instructions
     

    • In the Instant Pot, press the Sauté button, add the olive oil and fry the vegetables for 3-5 minutes (in a conventional pressure cooker, sauté over medium heat).
    • Add the wine, stir and let bubble for a minute or two, lid off. Press Keep Warm/Cancel button.
    • Add seafood, stock, macaroni, mixed herbs, tomato purée, a pinch of salt and pepper. Stir with a wooden spoon while scraping the bottom to deglaze (remove any caramelised bits).
    • Press the Manual or Pressure Cook button, programme 5 minutes (in a conventional pressure cooker, bring to high pressure and cook for 5 minutes, in fact you may want to make that 4 as the psi tends to be higher).
    • Do a quick release after letting it rest for 30 seconds and then remove the lid and let it rest for a couple of minutes, it will be quite liquid to start with but will thicken rather quickly (see photos below). So finish setting the table, pouring a glass of wine or, if you prefer, clearing up.
    • Tweak the salt and black pepper and drizzle with the lime or lemon juice (if using) before serving.

    Notes

    Deglazing means scraping the bottom with a wooden spoon and the help of some liquid to remove any caramelised bits
    Short of time? Add all the ingredients to the inner pot, stir to combine and head straight for step 4.
    Want to double it up? Feel free. The timings remain the same. Just remember the filling rules, as this a dish with ingredients that expand and foam up, you can only fill up to half way.
    *Terminology
    Quick release (also called quick pressure release or QPR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
    Natural release (also called natural pressure release or NPR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid.
    Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example, a recipe may say 4 minute NPR followed by QPR. That means that you wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
    Keyword all-in-one, Pasta
    Tried this recipe?Mention @feistytapas or tag #feistytapas!
    Share on Facebook
    11

    More All of the Feisty Tapas Instant Pot recipes in one place

    • Photo of the homemade Clotted Cream being drained after chilling
      Easy Instant Pot Clotted Cream
    • Photo of pressure cooked haggis on a white plate with an Instant Pot Duo in the background
      How to pressure cook Haggis
    • Photo of a Christmas Pudding sitting on the greaseproof paper it was previously wrapped in
      How to reheat Christmas Pudding in a Pressure Cooker
    • Photo of an Instant Pot Duo with the Steam button lit up and the words HOW TO STEAM IN A PRESSURE COOKER OR INSTANT POT written over it
      How to steam in an Instant Pot electric pressure cooker

    About Maria Bravo

    Kitchen Gadget Geek extraordinaire. Tester of all things kitchen appliance. Clumsy cook, if I can't break it and get the most of it, you know that's a good kitchen gadget! Architect of online communities for kitchen gadget lovers

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

      Leave a Reply Cancel reply

      Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

      Recipe Rating




    1. Sam Jenkins says

      September 21, 2019 at 12:25 pm

      This is delicious, and so easy. I’d be delighted to be served it in a restaurant (as I love seafood it’s the sort of dish I’d make a beeline for). I use Tesco frozen seafood, plenty of lemon, and a bit more carrot and red pepper. It goes beautifully with a chilled glass of cava!

      Reply
    2. Lucy Mars says

      January 20, 2020 at 6:52 pm

      What an amazing treat!
      Posh seafood pasta in half an hour!
      Absolutely loved how quick, easy & delicious this dish is! 😋

      Reply

    Primary Sidebar

    Hi, I'm Maria! A food blogger passionate about kitchen gadgets and their power to make life easier and tastier.

    More about me →

    Popular

    • Graphic with a red and white spotty background with the words Prime day 2025 kitchen gadget deals, it includes the Feisty Tapas logo
      Prime Day 2025 - Best Kitchen Gadget Deals
    • Photo of a white rectangular enamel dish full of cheesy loaded nachos
      Loaded Air Fryer Nachos - Quick, Cheesy and totally Moreish
    • Photo from above of the Quick Chilli for Nachos in the Thermomix seen after air frying over tortilla chips in the Ninja Speedi
      Ninja Speedi Nachos
    • Photo of the bean chilli seen inside the bowl of the Ninja Speedi
      Ninja Speedi Bean Chilli - Perfect for a quick and tasty dinner

    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    About Maria

    • Privacy Policy

    Newsletter

    • Sign Up! for emails and updates

    Copyright © 2011-2025

    Copyright © 2025 Feisty Tapas on the Cravings Pro Theme