Instant Pot Taco Mac and Cheese is the perfect mix of ground beef, pasta, shredded cheese and your favorite salsa all combined into one fantastic dish. It’s simple, tasty, and ready in 30 minutes!
We love dump and go recipes where everything is cooked together quickly and dinner is served within minutes! Add all the ingredients with cheese added at the end. Taco night just became so much easier!
Do you have a hamburger chopper? If not, these are the best when you need to sauté your hamburger beef. We use this in the Instant pot all the time. It’s the easiest way to chop and crumble food. It gets into the corners of your pot. Its the best tool for cooking perfectly browned and crumbled ground beef and turkey.
We love Instant Pot Taco Mac for a few reasons. It is inexpensive, 5 ingredients, fast, easy and everyone seems to like it. If you want another side, you could always add Authentic Mexican Rice, Mexican Street Corn or other side of your choice.
Ingredients needed:
ground beef
Thick & Chunky Salsa
Taco seasoning
elbow macaroni
shredded taco/fiesta cheese
How to make INSTANT POT TACO MAC:
Just five ingredients and five steps give you an easy Instant Pot meal. Here are the basic steps to making taco mac and cheese:
1. Sauté the ground beef and then scrape/deglaze the bottom.
2. Add in this order; water, salsa, taco seasoning and macaroni on top.
3. Lightly press the macaroni beneath the water with a spoon.
4. Pressure cook for 6 minutes with a 6 minute NPR.
5. Once complete, stir in the shredded cheese. Scoop into bowls and enjoy!
If you like Taco Mac, you may also enjoy:
Taco Tortellini Pasta, Shredded Chicken Tacos, or Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas.
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Taco Mac
Taco Mac is simple, easy and tasty with the flavors of taco seasoned beef, mac and cheese with your favorite salsa.
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 3 c water
- 1/2 c Thick & Chunky Salsa
- 2 tsp. Taco seasoning
- 2 c elbow macaroni, uncooked
- 8 oz. shredded taco/fiesta cheese
Instructions
1. Sauté the ground beef and then scrape/deglaze the bottom.
2. Add in this order; water, salsa, taco seasoning and macaroni on top.
3. Lightly press the macaroni beneath the water with a spoon.
4. Pressure cook for 6 minutes with a 6 minute NPR.
5. Once complete, stir in the shredded cheese. Scoop into bowls and enjoy!
