Turkey Instant Pot Lasagna is an easy ground turkey pressure cooker recipe your family will love for dinner. Love lasagna, but looking for a healthier option for a quick 30 minute dinner? Try this easy healthy ground turkey Instant Pot recipe.
Healthy Turkey Instant Pot Lasagna Recipe
This easy Turkey Instant Pot Lasagna a healthy meal made with ground turkey, fresh spinach and all the flavor you need for a delicious Instant Pot lasagna recipe the whole family will love!
Anytime I can use my Instant Pot pressure cooker I’m always happy! Not only is it fun to use, but it’s so quick to make a meal.
I’m excited to share my favorite ground turkey lasagna recipe with you because my whole family loved it which is not usually the case with my picky eaters! ha!
Easy Instant Pot Lasagna with Ground Turkey and Spinach
New to using an Instant Pot? Don’t let it intimidate you. One of my favorite and super easy Instant Pot recipes so far has been Instant Pot Potato Soup! I also love making French Toast Casserole in my Instant Pot.
Don’t have an Instant Pot yet? Now is the time to get one. They are awesome!
More Easy Instant Pot Dinner Recipes:
- 10 Minute Instant Pot Potato Soup
- How to Cook Frozen Chicken Breasts in the Instant Pot
- Easy Instant Pot Pulled Pork
- Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala
- My Favorite Instant Pot Lemon Garlic Chicken
- Instant Pot Banana French Toast
What Do I need To Make Instant Pot Lasagna?
You’ll need to add water to your pressure cooker, so this recipe will be prepared in a baking dish that you place inside of the pressure cooker pot.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: When I wrote this recipe and took the how-to-photos of me making it, there were no Instant Pot gadgets or pots. Now, I would recommend you get this –> Instant Pot Cake Pan. It’s is a smaller pan that fits inside of your Instant Pot. The 7″ pan works with the 8 qt Instant Pot. It’s great for making dishes like this lasagna where you don’t want the liquid touching the food.
Turkey Instant Pot Ingredients:
- 1 lb. ground turkey
- 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasonings
- 1/2 teaspoon salt and red-pepper flakes to taste
- 15 oz. container ricotta
- 1 1/2 cups mozzarella, shredded
- 1 – 10 oz package of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
- fresh ground pepper
- 6-9 oven-ready lasagna noodles, broken to fit a round baking dish
- 1 large jar chunky pasta sauce
- 1 cup water
Directions for How To Make Turkey lasagna
Mix ricotta, 1 cup mozzarella and spinach in a bowl. Add salt and fresh ground pepper.
Coat the bottom of an oven-safe cake pan that will fit inside of your pressure cooking pot with a spoonful of pasta sauce.
NOTE: Do not use a glass dish… now I recommend using this–> steel cake pan.
Add a layer of the noodles. Break the edges so they will fit inside of the round dish. Now add half of the meat mixture over the noodles. Pour half the pasta sauce over the noodles and spread half of the cheese mixture on top.
Repeat the layers, and top with the rest of the mozzarella cheese. Cover the baking dish with foil.
How to Prepare the Instant Pot For Cooking
Pour 1 cup water into the pressure cooker pot and place a trivet or pot lifter in the bottom of the Instant Pot’s inner pot. If you don’t have a trivet to lift the pan out of the hot pressure cooker, make a sling out of of a large foil strip.
Center the cake pan on the trivet or foil strip and lower it into the pressure cooker’s inner pot.
Lock the lid in place. Select High Pressure and set the timer for 20 minutes.
When timer goes off, turn off the pressure cooker and turn the steam release valve to “venting” to release the pressure. When the pressure valve drops, remove lid and remove dish from pressure cooking pot.
Remove foil, let set for 3-5 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
You can also make this simple ground turkey spinach lasagna in the oven. Bake at 350° for 30-40 minutes until bubbly.
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Instant Pot Turkey Spinach Lasagna
Equipment
- Instant Pot
- Cake Pan – That fits inside of the Inner Pot.
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground turkey
- 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasonings
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes to taste optional
- 15 oz. container ricotta
- 1 1/2 cups mozzarella shredded
- 10 oz. package of frozen chopped spinach thawed and drained
- 6-9 oven-ready lasagna noodles broken to fit a round baking dish
- 1 large jar chunky pasta sauce
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Brown the ground turkey in a pan. Season with Italian seasonings, salt and pepper flakes.
- Mix ricotta, 1 cup mozzarella and spinach in a bowl. Add salt and fresh ground pepper.
- Put a spoonful of pasta sauce to coat the bottom of an oven-safe cake pan that will fit inside of your inner pot. (7" cake pan for an 8qt Instant Pot).
- Add a layer of the noodles. Break the edges so they will fit inside of the round dish.
- Add half the meat mixture over noodles. Pour half the pasta sauce over the noodles. Spread half the cheese mixture on top.
- Repeat the layers.
- Sprinkle the top with 1/2 cup mozzarella and cover dish with foil.
- Pour 1 cup water into the pressure cooker pot and place a trivet or pot lifter in the bottom of the pot. If you don’t have a trivet to lift the pan out of the hot pressure cooker, make a sling out of of a large foil strip. Center the pan on the trivet or foil strip and lower it into the pressure cooker.
- Lock the lid in place. Select High Pressure and set the timer for 20 minutes.
- When timer goes off, turn off the pressure cooker and turn the steam release valve to “venting” to release the pressure. When the pressure valve drops, remove lid and remove dish from pressure cooking pot.
- Remove foil, let set for 3-5 minutes before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Originally published February 22, 2017, updated September 2021
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Shelly says
So this was delicious, but I to cook mine for 35 minutes for the noodles to get soft (and I used oven-ready, no-boil lasagna noodles. After 20 minutes they were still crunchy, so I put it back in for another 15 and then had success. My IP is the DUO60 and I had to use an 8-inch springform pan for the lasagna (yes, it was practically overflowing, but it worked!). Anyway, I would make this again, but now I know that in my IP, 35 minutes is necessary.
Amy Locurto says
Thank you! I appreciate you sharing:-)
Ellen DeA says
This was absolutely delish! I’m going to make it again soon and I’m sharing it with my IP friends! Thanks for sharing!
Sara says
Oh my gosh, this was so good! I added more red pepper flakes because we like our food spicy. Great Instant Pot recipe!