Name: Instant Pot Soup with Sausage and Rotini
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp minced garlic; 1/2 medium onion (finely chopped); 1 tsp cumin seeds; 4 Italian chicken sausages (chopped ); 2 cups tomatoes (chopped); 1 cup rotini pasta (dry); 3 cups chicken broth or bone broth; 2 tsp salt; 1 tsp pepper; 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (leave out if you don't like tartness )

For all you soup and instant pot lovers, I give you an easy and deliciously deceiving instant pot soup, loaded with flavour and yes, nutrition!

It’s true, I love soup and I used to love my instant pot. The truth is, during the pandemic, the instant pot has remained in my storage…hardly being used.

I think I found a reason to bring it back out for these colder, soup, weather months.

The poor disowned instant pot.

I was wondering why I wanted an appliance so bad only to have it stored away now, and I realized that I mainly used it for things that I didn’t have time to simmer or defrost on days where I didn’t pre-plan a meal or days I was running from school to hockey practice to ballet to the gym and back.

Wow, side note, that was crazy.

The truth is, I think I lost my need for the instant pot. I suddenly didn’t need meals on an “instant” and I started making palau (chicken and rice) on the stove again, we had time so I pre-planned a lot of meals.

Even soups, I actually primarily slow-cook on the stove. Having said that, I recalled a killer chicken and tomatoes soup that my daughter actually ate when I was on my 23-day program earlier in the year…it was a slow-cooked tomato soup with pieces of chicken, a small amount of vinegar and spices and it was delicious.

Now, my daughter has been asking a lot about soups, such as ramen or Maggi noodles, and Lipton chicken soup. While I am ok with that once in a while, I honestly don’t want to be my soup in a rush to be instant noodles and processed stuff too often.

So…instant pot re-entered our lives.

And a killer instant pot soup recipe was born.

Here is the recipe, but feel free to use the pasta noodle of your choice: elbow macaroni, penne, farfalle, all work great!

If you do not eat meat, you can use a veggie burger patty (chopped), in place of a sausage, or ground round.