Instant Pot Lasagna Soup

Our easy Instant Pot lasagna soup with jar sauce is amazing and healthy!! You can make it in just 8 minutes too! If you loved this classic pasta dinner, this is how to make it deconstructed for dinner.

Instant Pot Lasagna Soup with Jar Sauce

Ok so it’s lasagna but you’re pressure cooking with different noodles and meats. We love this classic Italian dish. You can make it as an easy Ninja Foodi or Crockpot Express recipe too. As long as it is electric with the saute and high pressure function you are good to go!

With kids, and those wide traditional noodles, they always had a hard time eating it. I also hated precooking them and trying to pick them up to layer them when they were entirely too hot. Lazy lasagna soup is the way to go y’all! You just brown the meat, throw everything else in and let it go.

Ninja Foodi Option

I will use bow tie pasta noodles in this Ninja Foodi recipe too if I find that on sale. They would be a bit smaller than these when it’s done, but totally your choice because of the “cuteness”. 😉 In order to make this lasagna soup recipe in just 8 minutes  you need a pot like this one. If you don’t have a pressure cooker I highly recommend getting one.

Ours you see here below was bought when they first came out and there were no recipes online for it at all. Since that is what I do for a living I got to work. This and our Instant Pot spaghetti were the first two ever created and added on to the blog to share. We still make them both today……many many years later.

One of my favorite parts of this 7 in 1 multi cooker pressure cooker is that you can brown your meat right in it. Then add everything else on top, snap the lid on and let it cook. Before I had to dirty a pan on the stovetop to do this part, makes it so much easier!

Ingredients and Notes

Spicy ground Italian sausage or ground beef is used in this case. As for the meat you just want something ground. Sausage is our fave, then beef, but for lower fat chicken and turkey could be substituted. The latter won’t lend nearly as much flavor to the dish but that is up to you.

I like to add some finely diced Onions into the mix but this isn’t entirely necessary. Yellow or white is what I typically choose to use.

I like petite Diced tomatoes for this so that you can get little bits of chunks in every single bite along the way.

You will need some liquid to make it soupy and cook the noodles. Chicken broth or beef broth are your best choices vs. water that won’t add any flavor into the mix. The spaghetti sauce, meat or marinara sauce, too will add flavor though.

Noodles are added into the mix uncooked, you can use any style you like, shells or penne work great so they are bite sized. And to make it authentic I add some Mozzarella cheese, Italian seasonings and occasionally a dollop of ricotta to the top when done.

Lasagna Soup with Frozen Ground Beef

If your meat is still rock hard you can still make this. I explain how to thaw Instant Pot frozen ground beef in case you need it here. Once done, drain the liquid in that pot, and start with the steps below browning that meat until there is no pink left.

Variations

I’ve used larger noodles you see here but prefer smaller ones like you see above. You can use any brand too. With any pressure cooker use the high pressure function with a quick release. With the foodi, at the end you could use air crisp mode with some extra cheese on top!

Dairy Free Option

If you need a version for those with a sensitive stomach to dairy it is totally easy. I have done this for my husband and will say you can find lactose free dairy products at almost any grocery store nowadays. It is surprisingly good and many times my kids can not even tell the difference.

I highly recommend getting a non stick pot for this and all other pressure cooker recipes so when sauteeing it doesn’t stick and you don’t have to deglaze as often.

on the Stove

If you wanted to make One Pot Lasagna Soup on the stovetop we have directions for that here too. Takes just a bit longer this way but not much. If you wanted to double this for a large crowd I might go this way since it will fit more.

Using slow cooker function

Pre cook your meat first on saute.  Add all ingredients other than noodles and cheeses and cook on low all day (6 hrs or so). About 30 minutes before you’re going to eat put your noodles in. Submerge them into the liquid. Put on high. Top with cheeses and serve!

It is similar to our Crockpot lasagna but with more broth so we call it a soup, but similar ingredients. You can make it layered and thicker or break the noodles with the same ingredients to make a thinner base.

Other easy one pot meals you’ll love

Instant Pot chili is healthy and low carb for dinner. We have a lot of other pressure cooker pasta recipes you will enjoy here Another tweak we love is this Crockpot lasagna casserole. It has similar ingredients but is thicker and a bit heartier as you see here. 

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