Creamy Instant Pot Enchilada Casserole

Instant Pot enchilada casserole is a creamy pasta with ground beef or sausage and all the Mexican flavors you love. Cooked in 4 minutes, you’ll definitely want seconds. 

I made this two different ways, I will explain them both. The overall consensus was that the ground beef method with more ingredients was favored over ground sausage. If you’re in a rush you could opt for the latter though.

• If you’ve never made an Instant Pot casserole before you’re in for a treat!
• I love them because there’s NO boiling required. The pasta cooks in the flavorful sauce which makes them taste amazing when they’re tender!

Instant Pot enchilada pasta

Like I said, I made this two different ways. The preferred method is in the recipe card below, and explained here. Alternatively instead of making the meatloaf recipe initially you could use just ground sausage.

I know, meatloaf and enchiladas?? May sound strange but it just means I added a wallop of flavors to my ground beef before browning it on the saute function.

Instant Pot enchilada casserole

I HIGHLY suggest getting this non stick pot. It almost eliminates all burn notifications and eliminates need for cooking spray. Makes it easier to clean too.

1. Meat mixture:
   1. Ground beef
   2. Egg
   3. Onion soup mix
   4. Parmesan cheese, shredded
   5. Worcestershire sauce
   6. Bread crumbs
2. Other ingredients
   1. Olive oil
   2. Uncooked pasta noodles – we used rotini once and medium shells the other
   3. Enchilada sauce – I like half mild and half medium as far as heat goes
   4. Onion
   5. Beef broth
   6. Sour cream
   7. Cheese

If you do not want to add the sour cream your pressure cooker pasta will look like this. That is good too, but not over the top!!

It really doesn’t matter what style noodles you use. I wouldn’t use whole grain because the timing will be off and personally I think they have an odd texture.

Anything small or medium size will do, you can see both types below. I use what is in my cupboard basically. Now for the good stuff!!

• Add lots of cheese, it will melt quickly once you stir it in.
• Sour cream brings a creaminess to this dish.
• You could also add green onions and/or diced chives on the top when serving it.
• The possibilities as far as toppings are endless.

The great thing about this enchilada pasta is you can really adjust the heat level. I used mild sauce the first time, but the second I used half mild and half medium. We all thought this brought more WOW to the dish.

I suppose you may be able to make an Instant Pot chicken enchilada casserole version. You’d need to dice chicken breasts into bite size pieces. Then cook the chicken with some olive oil on saute function.

• I might add the chicken with some diced onions. You’d just need to saute until outsides were no longer pink. 
• Then follow rest of instructions at the point where to pour in the enchilada sauce.

When I make this shredded chicken version I will add more info as far as that goes.

How do you reheat enchilada casserole?

Preheat the oven to 350˚ degrees. Put leftovers in an oven safe dish and cover with foil. Reheat for 20-30 minutes if it’s been refrigerated, or 45 minutes if it was frozen. Stir halfway through, remove when the enchiladas are warmed.

• If using a microwave, reheat in a dish in 30 second increments stirring in between times. 
• Add a bit of extra cheese on top halfway through and/or sour cream to make it creamier.

Looking for other easy pressure cooker recipes?

We have made hundreds of one pot meals and desserts in our “magical multi cooker”. Here are just a few similar dishes you might love as well.

1. Above is our Instant Pot Mexican pizza. You use a springform pan for this one.
2. Instant Pot enchiladas are fantastic
3. Pressure cooker Mexican rice is a great side dish, or make for a crowd and keep warm in a slow cooker.
4. We made what we called an Instant Pot Mexican casserole here. There are similar flavors but this one has beans and corn right in the mix too.

Printable recipe instructions and nutritional information is below. Just add all the things in my friends and ignore all of that stuff. 😉 Casseroles are meant to be feel good comfort food after all.