Instant Pot Shrimp Alfredo

Instant Pot shrimp alfredo pasta is so good and easy to make for your family! If you love seafood you’ll love how easy it is made in your pressure cooker or Ninja Foodi.

Ninja Foodi Shrimp Alfredo

Have you made Instant Pot shrimp yet?? It is the fastest way to cook them to perfectly pink and tender. This time we added them with jarred sauce and noodles for a fast and cheap meal we all love.

This is a really great way to cook one of our favorite Instant Pot shrimp recipes in just 1 minute. We’re adding them raw here but you could use frozen too if that is what you have on hand.

For this Instant Pot shrimp alfredo recipe we thawed our shrimp out overnight and put them in our one pot meal raw so everything could cook together perfectly.

Shrimp Alfredo with Jar Sauce and Frozen Shrimp

You can use fresh or frozen for this. Knowing how to cook frozen shrimp in your Instant Pot is helpful too if you just want a bowl of these yummy suckers for lunch! I must say…our family is OBSESSED with anything seafood related. My kids even love sushi!

If you haven’t introduced yours to shrimp or tried our Instant Pot fish recipe you really should. Mine weren’t super fans right at first but it didn’t take long for them to be “hooked”. 😉

This is a peek at how we made this, step by step above. Although I didn’t really call it this but I added our Instant Pot shrimp alfredo to this roundup of Instant Pot casseroles because it kinda’ falls into that category of everything cooked in the same pot.

You could probably add 1/2 c of frozen peas if you felt it really needed a veggie. Here’s how it came out looking like with such a short pressure cook time. OMG….like so good.

I really wasn’t sure how to it would turn out, or if it would turn out at all. Happily surprised I was when it did so I could gobble it up for lunch. Loved that cooking pasta on the stovetop wasn’t needed. 

Best type of shrimp to use for Instant Pot shrimp alfredo

Jumbo size shrimp – This size shrimp may look too big to eat but when they’re cooked they shrink quite a bit and become bite sized!

• Thawed
  • If you put them in completely frozen they will make this pasta more watery, that is not our preference. This is How to Cook Frozen Raw Shrimp separately if that is what you have.
  • Feel free to buy at the meat counter already thawed, or buy frozen like we did and leave them in a bowl or baggie in the fridge overnight to thaw out.

If you have No shells: Goes without saying but it would be very difficult to pick them out of the meal to take off the shells, would be a complete mess too. Remove shells and tails before you add them into your pressure cooker

Ingredients needed to make Instant Pot shrimp pasta

1. Jumbo shrimp – add the shrimp in raw, without shells and deveined
   1. If you want to add chicken instead, follow our Instant Pot cajun chicken pasta recipe

Alfredo sauce – I used this jarred sauce to make it super easy. If you’d rather make your own homemade alfredo sauce, have at it (just make it in a separate bowl and whisk together so it is smooth before adding, make 15 oz of it, about 2 c.).

1. Onion
2. Minced garlic
3. Water – I use vegetable or chicken broth for added flavor, any would work
   1. Uncooked pasta – I used rotini but small/med. shells would work
4. Grated parmesan cheeses and/or romano cheese – I used a little of each

Season with salt and pepper at the end if you desire.

Can you make Instant Pot shrimp alfredo with gluten free pasta?

You could. I don’t have a need for this but in my research the cook time is interchangeable so you should use the timing listed below. Of course everyone has preferences so I would stick to the 3 minutes. If you lift the lid and it isn’t tender enough for you, set to saute and allow to “boil” until it is perfect.

Ready to make a few other easy shrimp recipes once you’re done with this one? Lemon garlic butter shrimp sounds amazing and is on our list. We’ve got a great pressure cooker fish recipes roundup here too. If you feel like you need a tasty side dish for your shrimp alfredo pasta here are a few ideas:

What goes well with shrimp alfredo?

Same things below are served often with this pasta dish and highly recommend to make as your next one should be this Instant Pot bang bang shrimp pasta dish!

• Easy pull apart bread recipe – like garlic monkey bread but easier
• Instant Pot corn always works as a vegetable side dish
• Instant Pot spinach

Here’s your printable recipe to follow for one of our favorite pressure cooker recipes here.

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