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[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Can you share some instant pot meals/ideas? I got one and it barely gets used. Every time I look stuff up or ask peoole it's the same "crack chicken" recepies.

Mine is essentially a big power hungry medium boiled egg maker. Really wish it got more use.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Dried beans (includes garbanzo etc). With an automatic pressure cooker like that cooking dried beans goes from an ordeal where you have to soak them overnight and watch a pot for 5 hours and probably get indigestion because they're undercooked anyway to, spend 2 minutes throwing in the beans and water and pressing the button and then come back sometime between 1-5 hours later to perfectly cooked beans. Save money and space in your pantry getting rid of cans.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You're not selling it too well there, beanboy 😂

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

When was the last time you made beans not from a can? How did it go?

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Genuinely can't remember the last time I ate beans, other than a full English

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Get on my level then lmao

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Fresh veg > beans of any kind

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anything sous vide (if yours has a sous vide button). You can use ziplock bags in Leiu of a vac sealer. Chicken or steak sous vide and then quick seared in a hot pan for color is the best.

Olive Garden style Chicken Gnocchi soup (dozens of copycat recipes online). You can buy pre-packaged gnocchi or make it yourself. Get a loaf of French bread to toast cheap at the grocery store and it'll blow your mind.

Basically any Chili recipe can be made 5-10x faster pressure cooked. No need to simmer it for hours.

Use it as a rice cooker. Pressure cooked white rice tastes like Chinese restaurant sticky rice and take 10 minutes. Get a box of frozen orange chicken from Costco and you've got Orange chicken over rice in about 18 minutes. Or cook some refried beans, brown rice, and fried eggs for a quick breakfast. Nothing beats a salt and pepper runny yolk egg soaked into rice.

Hard boiling eggs you mentioned already, but if you like egg salad it's a great way to make easy peal boiled eggs for mashing into egg salad in the fridge.

Those are just a few things I use mine for ranging from moderate to simple.

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hah. I think my problem might be that I have gadgets for all of these things already.

I have a sous vide, so no need to use it for that

Chili I usually make in my slow cooker because it yields larger amounts (I usually fill the whole thing up and freeze a bunch of it)

I have a Zojirushi rice cooker, but I'm willing to try the instant pot if it is faster. I will check that out.

Chicken Gnocchi soup sounds amazing though.

[-] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's my favorite recipes, I use it every week:

Ribs - easy to get super consistent results, pressure cooking helps keep moisture in. (https://www.pressurecookrecipes.com/easy-bbq-instant-pot-ribs/)

Clam chowder - creamy New England style, I add extra seasonings to amp it up. The clams I get in cans and bottled clam juice so the only non-shelf-stable ingredients are onions, carrots, celery, and garlic (https://recipes.instantpot.com/recipe/new-england-clam-chowder-2/) My additions: To make it more hearty and thick I do 3 cans of clams instead of 2, 4ish strips of bacon bits, an extra stalk or 2 of celery, between 1.5 and 2 lbs of potatoes instead of 1, and parsley and paprika in the same amounts as the thyme and oregano.

Spaghetti carbonara - my new cook book addition. grating the cheese adds more work, but overall still very simple as far as instant pot recipes go - saute the pancetta and reserve, saute onion and garlic, pressure cook pasta in broth, stir in butter, cream, cheese, egg, and pancetta when done (https://pressureluckcooking.com/instant-pot-spaghetti-carbonara/)

Corn chowder - really similar to the clam chowder but good for if you're not feeling seafood, like most of the recipes I favorite, the steps mostly amount to dumping all the ingredients in, pressure cooking, and stirring in something extra at the end (in this case cornstarch and half&half to thicken) (https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/instant-pot-corn-chowder/)

I also use the instant pot some for other recipes but I lean heavily towards 1 pot meals and stuff where I can get away with putting 90% of the ingredients in for the pressure cooking step, that does mean a lot of soups but I'm working on adding more pasta dishes to my repertoire.

(Edited to add recipe links)

[-] lama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Any recipes you recommend for the ribs?

[-] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The ribs are the simplest, at its most basic all you have to do is remove the membrane on the back and then curl it up on a trivet over a cup of water, pressure cook high for 25 minutes and let sit under pressure for 10-25 more minutes after it's done (depending on how fall-off-the-bone you want, I usually like 25mins), glaze with bbq sauce and broil in the oven until it gets a bit of char.

You can also salt & pepper it before putting it in, use apple cider vinegar instead of water, and/or add a few drops of liquid smoke in the instant pot. But it turns out great even when I forget to do those things so really all you need is ribs and sauce.

I got the recipe from here: https://www.pressurecookrecipes.com/easy-bbq-instant-pot-ribs/

[-] lama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds great! I'll have to try the recipe. Thanks!

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of my use for my instant pot is to make batches of chicken stock to stick in the freezer.

Other than that these are a few of my most frequent recipes:

Spicy Instant Pot Carrot Soup
Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Adobo
Cilantro Lime Chicken

The last one isn't really a pressure cooker recipe, but you can make nearly any slow cooker recipe a pressure cooker recipe by just cooking it under pressure for about 30-45 minutes.

[-] raptorattacks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love making risotto in mine. Easy weeknight meal (depending on the recipe).

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