Healthy Instant Pot Recipes Perfect For Busy Nights. - juelzjohn (2024)

These healthy Instant pot recipes will make your life easy. Get ready to cook some seriously delish dishes that will have you licking your fingers. Cheap and easy instant pot recipes such as a hearty soup, healthy snacks, and flavor-packed dinners. Who doesn’t love the ideas of dumping everything into the pot and have it do all the magic for you?

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An Instant pot is versatile kitchen essential that is practically a life saver. Perfect for those busy weeknights when you have less time and low energy to spend like 2 hours in the kitchen cooking. I love either the 6 quart Instant Pot DUO or the 8 quart Instant POT Lux. The 8 quart is perfect for cooking for a large crowd or meal prepping large batches of food. It come in handy during holidays like for holidays like Easter and thanksgiving.

I use and highly recommend the 6 quart Instant Pot for daily use. It’s perfect for a family of 4+, stainless steel insert and has 14 smart program settings.

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Let’s dive into it.

Instant Pot Chili Recipe

You will absolutely love this chili recipe, it’s so easy to make and extremely delicious. It will only take you about 30 minutes to have this meal ready and the cool part is that you can brown your beef and cook your bacon in the instant pot too. Which makes everything easier. You can make it more spicy by adding red chili flakes or minced habaneros. It’s perfect for those cold months.

Instant Pot Kung Pao Chicken

This is definetly better than the takeout version. It’s healthy, low carb, keto and paleo friendly. Just as the Chinese restaurant version this is sweet and spicy so there is nothing you will be missing out on.

This Kung Pao Chicken is great for leftovers. Make a batch on the weekend and it will be perfect for those quick lunch or for those lazy nights you don’t feel like cooking.

Total time to have this ready is 21 minutes only.

Instant Pot Chicken Breasts

This screams deliciousness from miles away. The chicken breasts are so tender and juicy. Simply cooked to perfection. You can have them over pasta or salad. Make sure you brown the chicken breast before putting them in the pot so as to lock in as much juiciness as possible. Total time needed is 22 minutes.

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice

My favorite dish in this round up of healthy instant pot recipes because it’s easy to make and requires very minimal preparation. You don’t even need to presoak the beans, how cool is that? Don’t you just love the idea of adding all ingredients in the instant pot for a while and getting a ready meal. This dish is very flavorable, you won’t be disappointed.

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Instant Pot Korean Ground Beef

So delicious, versatile and it’s made with common ingredients. Can be served with rice or tacos or as lettuce wrap. It’s so satisfying and filling.

Healthy Instant Pot Recipes: Russian Chicken

This Russian chicken is so sweet, juicy and tangy and it will be ready in less than 30 minutes. Great as freezer meal too.

Barbacoa Beef

This pressure cooker barbacoa beef will melt in your mouth. Very easy to make and you don’t even require advanced cooking skills, so if you are like me an amateur cook, you are good. To add more flavor to the finished dish, you need to brown the roast. You can serve it with lime rice or even tacos. Total cook time is 1 hour 5 minutes.

Healthy Instant Pot Recipes: Teriyaki Chicken

Teriyaki chicken is a popular Japanese takeout in many homes nut this beat the that. This is way better, almost perfect you may say if served with homemade teriyaki sauce. Sweet, tender and you only need 10 minutes to prep. You can serve it with rice, quinoa or noodles.

Full recipe here

Instant Pot Coconut Tandoori Chicken Recipe

The chicken is so tender it practically falls apart. It’s creamy, juicy and it’s coated with gravy-like coconut curry-ish sauce. There are so many side options for this coconut chicken such as rice, sandwich, salads, wraps and tacos.

Ham Hock and Bean Soup

Hearty soup that will keep you full and warm in the colder days. The smoky ham hock, thyme, garlic and bay leaves together give you a great flavor, you will be licking the bowl later.

Instant Pot Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork

This pulled pork is so juicy, delicious and tender, it practically falls apart. It’s perfect served on bread, rice or even pizza. You can make it in batches and have it as a sandwich for a quick dinner or lunch. Cook time is only 52 minutes.

Asian Glazed Meatballs

Are you looking for best appetizers for your game night? You are in the right place. These glazed meatballs are sweet, moist, tender and sticky. They will be a crowd pleaser. You can easily customize them by swapping the sauce to your preferred one. You only need 40 minutes to have them ready.

Veggie Packed Spaghetti With Meat Sauce

This will be a favorite in the whole family. Hearty, delicious, filling, nutritious and to top it all it’s very quick and easy to make. Perfect for busy weeknight, those nights you come home and so tired to spend so much time in the kitchen.

15 minutes is all you need.

Salsa Shredded Chicken

Delicious juicy chicken that will have you asking for seconds. You only need two ingredients that is the salsa and the chicken. There are so many side dishes such as tacos, salad and rice.

Pizza Pasta Recipe

Scrumptious. The best word to describe this pizza. Easy to make and everyone will be happy with their meal. To add more flavor brown the sausage in the pot. Perfect for a quick easy dinner, it will only take 15 minutes.

Instant Pot Mac and Cheese recipe

Mac and cheese an absolute favorite dish, anytime all year round. This version is so creamy, flavorful, cheesy and thick. Delicious and easy to make too. It’s sprinkled with buttery toasted golden bread crumbs, smoky crispy bacon bits and crunchy scallions. Finger licking good.

With these instant pot recipes, you are guaranteed a good meal on those busy and lazy nights. Preparing any meal will be a breeze, and you will have more time to spend with family.

Which one of these healthy instant pot recipes are going to try first? Let us know in the comments below.

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