Instant Pot Cookbook: Easy and Fast Pressure Cooker Recipes for Busy Families

By Megan McKenzie

These Instant Pot Recipes Are Your One-Stop Shop for Easy, Healthy, FAST Recipes for Your Family

Is you meal planning and preparation super easy and fun? It can be!

The Instant Pot is the ultimate family-friendly kitchen tool. It enables busy cooks to prepare wholesome, healthy, delicious meals in a fraction of the time. You may be familiar with some of the basic recipes that can be prepared in your Instant Pot, but are you aware of how much your kitchen gadget can actually do?

With Megan McKenzie’s Instant Pot Cookbook: Easy and Fast Pressure Cooker Recipes for Busy Families, you’ll have an easy-to-read, no-nonsense guide to gourmet cooking made utterly simple. Complicated cheesecake recipes are a thing of the past, as are rushed dinners thrown together hastily. With this cookbook, you’ll be just minutes away from dishes like Braised Chicken with Capers and Parsley, Maple Smoked Brisket, Creamy Tomato Basil Parmesan Soup, and even Key Lime Pie. There’s no recipe that’s out of reach!

Megan McKenzie, a veteran chef and busy mom, has also provided you with exclusive tips and secrets on how to get the most of your Instant Pot. With this cookbook, you’ll have everything you need to be whipping up fast, easy, delicious meals for your busy family.

What are you waiting for? You could be minutes away from a home-cooked meal! Pick up your copy of Megan McKenzie’s Instant Pot Cookbook: Easy and Fast Pressure Cooker Recipes for Busy Families today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Megan McKenzie
• Release date: Jan 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386574149

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1. The Instant Pot: My Favorite New Do-It-All

For most of my adult life, I have favored traditional kitchen tools and appliances. I love my stainless steel stock pot, my pizza stone, my trusty 10-year-old slow cooker, and my KitchenAid stand mixer. It seems like there’s a new kitchen gadget popping up every few months, performing functions that seem too narrow to justify the cabinet space the appliance occupies. A breakfast sandwich maker? A panini press? A water carbonator? An iced tea maker? No thanks, I can do without.

Then I started hearing buzz about something called an Instant Pot. It was supposed to be the next it appliance. I ignored the buzz. But eventually, I got curious. This Instant Pot, I heard, could perform the functions of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, steamer, rice maker, yogurt maker, and sauté pan. What’s more, it could do so faster, with minimal wasted energy. It sounded too good to be true, but I finally decided to give the Instant Pot a try. After all, my beloved crock pot was once a new kitchen gadget that had probably sounded too good to be true at first glance.

So I ordered the Instant Pot. When it arrived, I pored over the instruction manual. It sounded super easy to operate, which made me suspicious. I assumed it would burn my food or not cook it thoroughly enough or stop working after a month. A few uses in, though, I was starting to come around. It made short work of brown rice, a staple in my household, and one that usually takes well over an hour to cook, even in a rice maker. It steamed vegetables to perfection. It produced our favorite soups and stews in record time. It whipped up delicious steel cut oats. And it did all of this without sacrificing taste or quality (which had been one of my biggest concerns).

These days, I’m willing to admit that I was wrong about the Instant Pot. It is one of my favorite appliances. I use it nearly every day. It really is just a matter of pushing a button and walking away, which makes it far superior to the pressure cooker I already had. It has made meal prep so much faster and easier, and we have even begun to experiment with new dishes and cooking methods. I have used the Instant Pot to make yogurt, which turned out surprisingly well. I have used it to make soup stock. I have used it to braise chicken. I even used it to make a perfect cheesecake. This little gadget really does do it all.

I’ll admit it. I was wrong about the Instant Pot.

2. Things You Should Know About the Instant Pot

If you’re new to Instant Pot cooking, or if you’re still on the fence about whether to get one or not, there are a few things you should know before you dive in.

Using the Instant Pot is not necessarily intuitive. If you haven’t used a slow cooker or pressure cooker very much, the Instant Pot will take some getting used to. You will want to read the user’s manual to get a feel for the different buttons and settings. It may seem like a lot to learn at first, but trust me, you’ll get used to it! I would recommend starting out with very simple recipes, like eggs, vegetables, or beans. In no time, you’ll be using the Instant Pot like a pro! (Check out