Fix-It and Forget-It Everyday Instant Pot Favorites: 100 Dinners, Sides & Desserts
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"What's for dinner?" If that question makes you tense up, this book is for you. It can be exhausting to come up with healthy and appealing dinner options night after night, but Fix-It and Forget-It Everyday Instant Pot Favorites is here to help. You need recipes that are easy to prepare, don't require a lot of hard-to-find ingredients, and will appeal to the whole family. Hope Comerford has you covered.
In addition to great recipes, you'll also find tips on how to set up and use your Instant Pot, how to know when your food is perfectly done, and more. Here are fun and family‑friendly recipes including:
- Beef with Broccoli
- Mediterranean Lentil Soup
- Tender Tasty Ribs
- Cheesy Broccoli Rice Casserole
- Salsa Lime Chicken
- Lasagna the Instant Pot Way
- Family Favorite Chicken Fajita Soup
- Barbecued Brisket
- And more!
You'll also find scrumptious desserts such as Lemon Pudding Cake and Cookies & Cream Cheesecake. Make the most of your Instant Pot with these easy and delicious recipes!
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Fix-It and Forget-It Everyday Instant Pot Favorites - Hope Comerford
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Names: Comerford, Hope, author. | Matthews, Bonnie.
Title: Fix-it and forget-it everyday instant pot favorites : 100 dinners, sides & desserts / Hope Comerford ; photos by Bonnie Matthews.
Description: New York, New York : Good Books, [2023] | Series: Fix-it and forget-it | Includes index. | Summary: 100 quick and easy meals to simplify your cooking routines!
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Identifiers: LCCN 2022031114 (print) | LCCN 2022031115 (ebook) | ISBN 9781680998610 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781680998764 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Smart cookers. | Quick and easy cooking. | One-dish meals. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.
Classification: LCC TX840.S63 C65 2023 (print) | LCC TX840.S63 (ebook) | DDC 641.5/87--dc23/eng/20220809
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022031114
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022031115
Cover design by David Ter-Avanesyan
Cover photo by Bonnie Matthews
Print ISBN: 978-1-68099-861-0
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-68099-876-4
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Contents
Welcome to Fix-It and Forget-It Everyday Instant Pot Favorites: 100 Dinners, Desserts & Sides
What Is an Instant Pot?
Getting Started with Your Instant Pot
Instant Pot Tips & Tricks and Other Things You May Not Know
Instant Pot Accessories
Dinners
Breakfast for Dinner
Favorite Dinner Soups, Stews & Chilies
Favorite Dinners
Sides
Desserts
Metric Equivalent Measurements
Recipe & Ingredient Index
About the Author
Welcome to Fix-It and Forget-It Everyday Instant Pot Favorites
What’s for dinner?
just got a little bit easier, now that this book is in hand. Welcome to Fix-It and Forget-It Everyday Instant Pot Favorites, where you now have access to 100 of our community’s favorite dinners, sides, and desserts.
Whether you feel like breakfast for dinner, soup for dinner, or a traditional dinner, you’ll have plenty of recipes to choose from. Dishes like Tuscan Chicken, Macaroni and Cheese, Lasagna the Instant Pot Way, Mississippi Pot Roast, and more will fill your bellies with the types of dinners our community craves the most. If you’re looking for a change of pace, you could try the Egg Bites or Shredded Potato Omelet for dinner instead.
You may even find yourself purchasing a second (or third) Instant Pot so you can cook your sides and dessert right along with your main course! Get ready to fire up that Instant Pot because your next everyday favorite recipe is just a few pages away.
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, as well as cook rice, grains, porridge, soups/stews, beans/chili, meat, poultry, cake, and eggs, and make yogurt. You can use the Instant Pot to steam or 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. 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, in my experience. Then, you will see the countdown happen (from the time you set it for). 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 (the pressure releases on its own) or do what’s called a QR, or quick release (you manually release the pressure). Which method you choose depends on what you’re cooking, but in this case, you can choose either, because 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.
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