Recipes that will fit in the 3-quart Instant Pot MINI electric pressure cooker without any changes! Plus, don’t miss our guide on how to shrink regular pressure cooker recipes to fit in the mini.
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Pressure Cooker Eggplant and Olive Spread
17 Aug 2018Laura Pazzaglia
I open all of my pressure cooker demos and classes making this dip because this recipe showcases how quickly and easily the stubborn eggplant (which takes, forever to become tender) can be prepared.
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Easy Butter Chicken – From Frozen Chicken Breast!
29 Jun 2018Laura Pazzaglia
Juicy, tender and succulent chicken breast bathed in a thick flavorful sauce that's easy to make in the pressure cooker?!?! Believe it!
It's not easy to get good results frozen (or even...
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Easy Quinoa Freckled Rice – Pressure Cooker Side
26 Jun 2018Laura Pazzaglia
Here's a cute variation from the standard plain 'ol white rice - in addition to looking cute it has a slightly nuttier flavor. A perfect fluffy bed to support your favorite veggie or meat...
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Mini Mania: Shrink Pressure Cooker Recipes for the Instant Pot MINI
18 Jun 2018Laura Pazzaglia
This nearly pocket-sized 3-quart cooker is small and cute but cooking in a world of recipes written for larger pressure cookers is definitelya challenge! Here's how to adjust larger recipes, and...
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5 May 2018Laura Pazzaglia
The "grains" are springy, the zucchini...
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Pressure Cooker Horchata – Mexican Sweet Rice Drink
23 Apr 2018Laura Pazzaglia
Although rice is usually soaked, the pressure cooker hurries the process along so that you can get in 1 minute what would ordinarily take 8 hours. This drink is refreshing, lightly sweetened with...
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Silky Beef and Porcini Mushroom Stew – Pressure Cooker Recipe
This stew offers deep, rich notes of a slowly braised stew without the wait - or fancy knife skills (all the vegetables are roughly chopped). Porcini mushrooms add to that richness and maintain...
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Pressure Cooker Chocolate Lava Mug Cake
21 Jan 2018Laura Pazzaglia
What is the point of whipping out the pressure cooker when you can just slide the mug in the microwave and call it a day? It’show the pressure cooker heats-up foods that makes the lava in this cake possible.
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Skinny Cream of Broccoli Soup – Easy Pressure Cooker Recipe
21 Sep 2017Laura Pazzaglia
The creaminess of this soup is in the texture – not the ingredients! I use one my favorite soup-thickening tricks to make this soup light yet satisfying.
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20 May 2017Laura Pazzaglia
Steaming broccoli sounds simple, right? But, first, we need a steamer basket to steam them with!
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Pressure Cooker Steamed Brown Rice
14 Jan 2017Laura Pazzaglia
This is a pretty simple recipe that showcases how the pressure cooker’s steam can make perfect grains of fluffy rice – even brown rice! As we mentioned earlier
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Pressure Cooker Confetti Basmati Rice Recipe
14 Jan 2017Laura Pazzaglia
This recipe shows you how to add vegetables to any pressure cooker rice dish but counting some of the vegetables as the cooking liquid. The exceptions
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Garlic Cauliflower Potato Mash – Sneaky Healthy Pressure Cooker Recipe!
23 Dec 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Make this recipe with any kind of potato – leave the skin on for extra fiber and protein or peel it off before starting. It’s up to you. The pressure cooker will tenderize the skins so they’ll add color, but they will be barely noticeable texture-wise.
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Ketchup from Fresh Tomatoes in Pressure Cooker Minutes!
28 Jul 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Make your very own ketchup from scratch in minutes of pressure cooking (and some simmering). Start with fresh tomatoes, add a few ingredients and spices to get a rich, sweet and...
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16 Jul 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Make your own barbeque sauce to getfull control of the ingredientsand show off the pressure cooker's ability to infuse flavors in a flash. This sauce does not need to mature or age - when...
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Pressure Cooker Sushi?!? You can do it!
6 May 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Make super-stickysushi rice inyour pressure cooker in just minutes! While the rice is pressure cooking you can prep the sushi fillings. This video features my son Vittorio...
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Basic Recipe: Pressure Cooker Quinoa
22 Apr 2016Laura Pazzaglia
I came up with the 1-minute Quinoa pressure cooker method five years ago after seeing wildly different cooking times cited by other experts. I didn't likeending-up with mushy gruel-like...
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Maple Steel-cut Oats – Pressure Cooker Oatmeal
23 Feb 2016Laura Pazzaglia
According to Prevention Magazine, steel-cut oats have a slightly lower glycemic index and fewercalories than rolled oats1.There is some debate about the significance of this...
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23 Feb 2016Laura Pazzaglia
We fake this instant oatmeal classic by using milk and the oat's own starch as the cream. Whenever I could talk my mother into bringing home an Instant Oatmeal Variety Pack - the...
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Skinny Sloppy Joes with Tangy Slaw
14 Jan 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Make these healthified Sloppy Joes from scratch and cut down their simmering time to 10 minutes of completely hands-off pressure cooking - during which you can make coleslaw.
A Sloppy Joe is...
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Candied Lemon Peels – new pressure cooker technique!
15 Dec 2015Laura Pazzaglia
Another pressure cooker first that will save you loads of time (10 min pressure cooking vs. 60-90 simmering) and preserve lemon peels to use as home-made candy or to use in your...
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Pressure Cooker “Baked” Apples – really easy!
3 Nov 2015Laura Pazzaglia
This is one of those deceptively easy recipes - that took foreverto figure out. Wanting to duplicate my mother's hour-long oven baked apple down to every detail slowed...
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Make Ricotta Cheese with the Instant Pot SMART, DUO, ULTRA (or any pot)
10 Apr 2015Laura Pazzaglia
Ricotta does not need a pressure cooker- it can be made with any 'ol pot with lots of supervision and stirring - but the automated programs of Instant Pot makes the process soooo much...
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Hot Hot, Hot Chocolate Fondue!
21 Jan 2015Laura Pazzaglia
Sometimes you've just got to try something to believe it. Melting chocolate in the pressure cooker is one of those things.
Using the pressure cooker to melt chocolate goes against...
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Cozy Cream of Mushroom Soup
19 Dec 2014Laura Pazzaglia
This recipe gets a concentrated mushroom flavor from the addition of dried mushrooms - try different types tocompletely change the flavor. To thicken the soup we went withpotatoes instead of...
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Short-cut Potatoes: bake potatoes in half the time!
29 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Sometimes, a boiled potato won’t do. On a whim, and then over and over and over again, I tossed the potatoes in the pressure cooker to pre-cook them a bit while my oven was pre-heating. WOW!
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Quick Cranberry Sauce from Dried Berries
27 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
The pressure cooker is used to quickly re-hydrate the cranberries with a squeeze of lemon to bring them back to life- the result is thick, tart, and lightly firm cranberry sauce.
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Beet it, just beet it. Beet it!
26 Sep 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...
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Millet! It’s the new quinoa.
2 Jun 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Millet is a high-protein grain that will pressure cook in a flash to tender perfection. The mild, delicately nutty and lightly sweet-tasting millet can replace rice, couscous or quinoa in any recipe.
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1 Jun 2014Laura Pazzaglia
Tangy, spicy and sweet a chutney can be made in the pressure cooker in just minutes.
We've pressure cooked marmalade and hot sauce - so when my jar of mango chutney was running low and...
