Instant Pot Pasta and Vegetable Soup

Delicious Instant Pot Vegetable and Pasta Soup to warm you up even on the coldest of days. This is my type of comfort food, hope you like it.

What stock to use for soup

I use either gammon / ham stock or chicken stock (like the one left from pressure cooking Zero Minute Chicken).

Pressure cooking gammon in the Instant Pot is easy, painless and, above all, tasty. Not great for my waist line as I seem to snack on it all day. In my defence, it's really, really nice and well, it's there in the fridge, all I have to do is pinch a bit.

There are two ways of cooking Instant Pot ham, check out all details. For this recipe I use the second method detailed in that post, so that I get lots of lovely stock for other uses.

We have another recipe, for Instant Pot Ham and Cabbage Soup, which is also perfect for left over gammon stock (or chicken stock).

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Instant Pot Pasta and Vegetable Soup

Maria Bravo

Delicious, warming and comforting pasta soup

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Course Soup

Cuisine Spanish

Servings 2 people

Equipment

• 1 Pressure Cooker

Ingredients

  

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• 1 litre gammon stock add more if you don't like your soup as thick as I do. Use whatever type of stock you have, for example from making Zero Minute Chicken
• 2 carrots sliced
• 1 leek sliced
• 1 chorizo sausage peeled and sliced (or you could of course add small pieces of the lovely ham you just cooked, or both), I tend to get the mild chorizo for this
• 10 cherry tomatoes
• 100 g pasta stars Orzo also works well

Instructions

 

• Place the stock in the Instant Pot and press Sauté high while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.1 litre gammon stock
• Once it's starting to get hot, add all ingredients and stir: 2 carrots, 1 leek, 1 chorizo sausage, 10 cherry tomatoes and 100 g pasta stars.
• Check the sealing ring is properly in place, lock the lid in again, making sure the steam release is Sealed. Pressure cook 0 minute (1 minute if your pressure cooker doesn't go down to 0), high pressure.
• At the end, let it do a natural release for a few minutes (4-5) and then do a QPR. Bear in mind that it can splatter as there is pasta in there and a fair amount of liquid, to avoid this you can do a gradual pressure release by letting the steam out little by little. IIf the pasta is not fully cooked, let it stand for a little while or press Sauté and let it simmer, keeping an eye on the pasta. It's better to undercook than to overcook pasta.

Notes

Note: You can of course skip the chorizo and add diced gammon at the end, but you know me and chorizo... Or of course you could use both

Tip: It will also be lovely with kale or spinach instead of leek.

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