Fix-It and Forget-It Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook: 127 Super Easy Healthy Recipes
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Meal planning can be tough when you or someone in your family has diabetes. Fix-It and Forget-it Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook is here to help! Here are 127 easy-to-prepare recipes that you can mix and match to make your breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts a snap! You want to put a delicious meal on the table for your family without worrying whether it’s going to fit your dietary needs—and certainly without spending hours in the kitchen—or in the grocery store searching for exotic ingredients. Complete with nutrition information for each recipe, Fix-It and Forget-it Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook is filled with comfort food that you can pull together in a hurry when unexpected company arrives, when you’re going to a potluck, or anytime you’re busy (which is pretty much every day, am I right?).
In these pages you’ll find recipes that—
- are delicious and a snap to prepare in your Instant Pot
- include dietary information so you can eat with confidence
- offer step-by-step instructions that virtually anyone can follow
Each recipe includes prep time and cooking time, so you know exactly what to expect. Recipes include:
- Potato Bacon Soup
- Southwestern Bean Soup with Corn Dumplings
- Chicken with Spiced Sesame Sauce
- Beef Burgundy
- Quick Steak Tacos
- Apple Walnut Squash
- Wine Poached Pears
- And many more!
Hope Comerford
Hope Comerford is the blogger behind A Busy Mom’s Slow Cooker Adventures and is the author of The Gluten-Free Slow Cooker and editor or author of several Fix-It and Forget-It books including Fix-It and Forget-It Lazy and Slow Cookbook, Fix-It and Forget-It Cooking for Two, and Welcome Home Cookbook. She is passionate about slow-cooking and writing easy, delicious recipes. She lives in Clinton Township, Michigan.
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Fix-It and Forget-It Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook - Hope Comerford
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Table of Contents
Welcome to Fix-It and Forget-It Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook
What Is an Instant Pot?
Getting Started with Your Instant Pot
Instant Pot Tips and Tricks and Other Things You May Not Know
Calculating the Nutritional Analysis
Tips for Healthier, Happier Eating
How to Plan Healthy Meals
Learning Portion Control
Frequently Asked Questions About Diabetes and Food
Breakfast
Appetizers & Snacks
Soups, Stews, Chilies & Chowders
Main Dishes
Side Dishes & Vegetables
Desserts
Metric Equivalent Measurements
Recipe and Ingredient Index
About the Author
Welcome to Fix-It and Forget-It Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook
There is a lot of worry that comes with being on any kind of a special diet. We’re happy to have the brand new Fix-It and Forget-It Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook available to you with 127 recipes you know will fit your dietary restrictions. When you’re diabetic, it’s important to manage your calorie, carb, fat, and sodium counts. That’s why we’ve put together these recipes, each with nutritional information included, so you and your loved ones can enjoy your meals without the guesswork. Each recipe is followed by its Exchange List Values, listing carbs, fats, starches, etc. and the Basic Nutritional Values as well.
You’ll find this cookbook to be full of easy recipes everyday home cooks can tackle with their Instant Pot. If you’re new to Instant-Potting, just getting your feet wet, or are a total newbie, fear not! This cookbook has you covered! Even if you’re a seasoned Instant-Potter, I’m sure you’ll be thrilled to find some new recipes to add to your rotation of Instant Pot recipes.
Fix-It and Forget-It has always brought you recipes for your slow-cooker you can make with confidence and ease. We are thrilled to be bringing you something new! We think you’re going to love using your Instant Pot and can’t wait for you to get started!
What Is an Instant Pot?
In short, an Instant Pot is a digital pressure cooker that also has multiple other functions. Not only can it be used as a pressure cooker, but depending on which model Instant Pot you have, you can set it to do things like sauté, cook rice, multigrains, porridge, soup/stew, beans/chili, porridge, meat, poultry, cake, eggs, yogurt, steam, slow cook or even set it manually. Because the Instant Pot has so many functions, it takes away the need for multiple appliances on your counter and allows you to use fewer pots and pans.
Getting Started With Your Instant Pot
Get to Know Your Instant Pot …
The very first thing most Instant Pot owners do is called the water test. It helps you get to know your Instant Pot a bit, familiarizes you with it, and might even take a bit of your apprehension away (because if you’re anything like me, I was scared to death to use it!).
Step 1: Plug in your Instant Pot. This may seem obvious to some, but when we’re nervous about using a new appliance, sometimes we forget things like this.
Step 2: Make sure the inner pot is inserted in the cooker. You should NEVER attempt to cook anything in your device without the inner pot, or you will ruin your Instant Pot. Food should never come into contact with the actual housing unit.
Step 3: The inner pot has lines for each cup (how convenient, right?!) Fill the inner pot with water until it reaches the 3-cup line.
Step 4: Check the sealing ring to be sure it’s secure and in place. You should not be able to move it around. If it’s not in place properly, you may experience issues with the pot letting out a lot of steam while cooking, or not coming to pressure.
Step 5: Seal the lid. There is an arrow on the lid between and open
and close.
There is also an arrow on the top of the base of the Instant Pot between a picture of a locked lock and an unlocked lock. Line those arrows up, then turn the lid toward the picture of the lock (left). You will hear a noise that will indicate the lid is locked. If you do not hear a noise, it’s not locked. Try it again.
Step 6: ALWAYS check to see if the steam valve on top of the lid is turned to sealing.
If it’s not on sealing
and is on venting,
it will not be able to come to pressure.
Step 7: Press the Steam
button and use the +/- arrow to set it to 2 minutes. Once it’s at the desired time, you don’t need to press anything else. In a few seconds, the Instant Pot will begin all on its own. For those of us with digital slow cookers, we have a tendency to look for the start
button, but there isn’t one on the Instant Pot.
Step 8: Now you wait for the magic
to happen! The cooking
will begin once the device comes to pressure. This can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes I’ve found in my experience. Then, you will see the countdown happen (from the time you set it at). After that, the Instant Pot will beep, which means your meal is done!
Step 9: Your Instant Pot will now automatically switch to warm
and begin a count of how many minutes it’s been on warm. The next part is where you either wait for the NPR, or natural pressure release (meaning the pressure releases all on its own) or you do what’s called a QR, or quick release (meaning, you manually release the pressure). Which method you choose depends on what you’re cooking, but in this case, you can choose either since it’s just water. For NPR, you will wait for the lever to move all the way back over to venting
and watch the pinion (float valve) next to the lever. It will be flush with the lid when at full pressure and will drop when the pressure is done releasing. If you choose QR, be very careful not to have your hands over the vent as the steam is very hot and you can burn yourself.
Making a Foil Sling
In many recipes in this book, you’ll see instructions to make a foil sling. To do so, cut a length of aluminum foil that’s about 20 inches long. Fold it into thirds, lengthwise. Place it beneath the inner pot. This makes it easy to remove the inner pot later without spilling its contents!
The Three Most Important Buttons You Need to Know About …
You will find the majority of recipes will use the following three buttons:
Manual/Pressure Cook: Some older models tend to say Manual
and the newer models seem to say Pressure Cook.
They mean the same thing. From here, you use the +/- button to change the cook time. After several seconds, the Instant Pot will begin its process. The exact name of this button will vary on your model of Instant Pot.
Sauté: Many recipes will have you sauté vegetables, or brown meat before beginning the pressure cooking process. For this setting, you will not use the lid of the Instant Pot.
Keep Warm/Cancel: This may just be the most important button on the Instant Pot. When you forget to use the +/- buttons to change the time for a recipe, or you press a wrong button, you can hit Keep Warm/Cancel
and it will turn your Instant Pot off for you.
What Do All the Buttons Do …
With so many buttons, it’s hard to remember what each one does or means. You can use this as a quick guide in a pinch.
Soup/Broth. This button cooks at high pressure for 30 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 40 minutes, or less for 20 minutes.
Meat/Stew. This button cooks at high pressure for 35 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 45 minutes, or less for 20 minutes.
Bean/Chili. This button cooks at high pressure for 30 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 40 minutes, or less for 25 minutes.
Poultry. This button cooks at high pressure for 15 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 30 minutes, or less for 5 minutes.
Rice. This button cooks at low pressure and is the only fully automatic program. It is for cooking white rice and will automatically adjust the cooking time depending on the amount of water and rice in the cooking pot.
Multigrain. This button cooks at high pressure for 40 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 45 minutes of warm water soaking time and 60 minutes pressure-cooking time, or less for 20 minutes.
Porridge. This button cooks at high pressure for 20 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 30 minutes, or less for 15 minutes.
Steam. This button cooks at high pressure for 10 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 15 minutes, or less for 3 minutes. Always use a rack or steamer basket with this function because it heats at full power continuously while it’s coming to pressure and you do not want food in direct contact with the bottom of the pressure cooking pot or it will burn. Once it reaches pressure, the steam button regulates pressure by cycling on and off, similar to the other pressure buttons.
Less | Normal | More. Adjust between the Less | Normal | More settings by pressing the same cooking function button repeatedly until you get to the desired setting. (Older versions use the Adjust button.)
+/- Buttons. Adjust the cook time up [+] or down [-]. (On newer models, you can also press and hold [-] or [+] for 3 seconds to turn sound OFF or ON.)
Cake. This button cooks at high pressure for 30 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 40 minutes, or less for 25 minutes.
Egg. This button cooks at high pressure for 5 minutes. It can be adjusted using the +/- buttons to cook more for 6 minutes, or less for 4 minutes.
Instant Pot Tips and Tricks and Other Things You May Not Know
•Never attempt to cook directly in the Instant Pot without the Inner Pot!
•Once you set the time, you can walk away. It will show the time you set it to, then will change to the word on
while the pressure builds. Once the Instant Pot has come to pressure, you will once again see the time you set it for. It will count down from there.
•Always make sure your sealing ring