If you are fed up of spaghetti bolognese but fall back on it for it’s ease and versatility, then you need my Instant Pot Pork Ragu in your weekly cooking rotation.
Lean pork mince is surprisingly tasty (and frugal) if you haven’t used it yet and it carries flavours very well. The predominant flavours are from the fennel seeds and fresh basil. Fragrant aniseed flavours mixed with the garlic and the richness of tomatoes when pressure cooked is lipsmackingly delicious! Hungry Hubby certainly approves.
But apart from the taste, I wanted to talk about how great this recipe is for batch cooking and also for cooking from frozen in the Instant Pot.
I could not function in my life without having meals ready to go. My commute to work is an absolute bitch these days and if I’ve done a day’s graft plus been in the car for 5 hours, I am not standing at the stove to cook!
This is where my Instant Pot saves the day.
All I do is take a bag of still frozen ragu out of the freezer, run it under the hot tape to loosen then tip it straight into my inner pot. I swill the bag out with 2-3 tbsp of water and add that to the pot too. The only important thing to remember to do is to check your freezer bags are not wider than the inner pot’s internal dimensions and you’re laughing!
As the ragu thaws and reheats, it will sink and come into contact with the bottom of the pot. If you use Manual High for 15 minutes, it will come out roasting hot and perfectly cooked.
If you were to eat this Instant Pot Pork Ragu straight from the pot then you would probably want to reduce the sauce (done simply by turning the pot back on to Sauté for 10 minutes) but when making specifically to fill the freezer, leave it and the extra moisture will quickly thaw and provide the necessary liquid for the Instant Pot to come to pressure.
Not to mention that all the veg, especially the courgette provide extra moisture that helps with reheating from frozen too. Plus, there is at least as much speed veg, if not more than the minced pork so this qualifies as a one-pot dinner, complete with at least a third of a plate of speed vegetables!
Which makes it even better in my estimation, especially when the drive home from Leeds to Sheffield has been especially trying and I’ve not had time to eat more than a clementine or two. I can have a delicious dinner made in under half an hour (Hungry Hubby can cook the pasta on the stove) which I have a shower and get into comfy jammies.
Ahh, that’s better!
Fed up of spaghetti bolognese but love the versatility of mince? Then try this Syn Free Pork Ragu! Perfect for batch cooking and utterly delicious. Recipe Notes: Important Information As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.Instant Pot Pork Ragu (Syn Free)
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