20+ Easy Instant Pot Recipes
These easy Instant Pot recipes are all packed with flavor and so simple to make. If you’ve ever used in an Instant Pot (or a pressure cooker), you’ll know they are every busy cook’s dream appliance. Tough cuts of meat and dishes that usually require slow-cooking are made in an instant.
Below I share 20+ easy Instant Pot Recipes for everything from soups and stews to tacos and luscious desserts.
Instant Pot Soup Recipes
These Instant Pot Soup Recipes are my go-to’s when soup season hits. Warm, comforting and perfect for when the weather starts to cool down.
Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup
This chicken tortilla soup recipe is quick and easy to make and is delicious as a gluten-free weeknight dinner. Served with crispy fried tortillas, avocado and fresh cilantro, it’s a family favorite with good reason.
Instant Pot Pumpkin Soup
Creamy pumpkin soup is like a hug in a bowl. Made in the Instant Pot it’s ready to eat in minutes, making it perfect for weeknight dinners.
Instant Pot Tomato Soup
This easy tomato soup is a no-fuss, no-mess comfort food recipe that is perfect for simple lunches and dinners served with crusty bread.
Loaded Instant Pot Potato Soup
This potato soup recipe is creamy, warming and perfect served topped with sour cream, crispy bacon and cheddar cheese for the ultimate comfort food dinner.
Instant Pot Black Bean Chicken Soup
This easy chicken black bean soup is perfect cooked in an Instant Pot. A hands-off dinner recipe that can feed a crowd? Yes please!
Instant Pot Birria Ramen
This Birria Ramen recipe delivers delicious broth packed with flavor. Served with shredded beef, noodles and a jammy egg, it’s the most comforting soup-season meal.
Instant Pot Stew Recipes
Instant Pot Lamb Curry
This easy Lamb Curry recipe is going to become a regular on your dinner rotation. Deeply aromatic with fall-apart tender meat, this curry can be ready in just over an hour!
Instant Pot Osso Buco
The easiest way to make this Italian classic. Osso Buco is done in a fraction of the time and served with Risotto Milanese, it’s the ultimate showstopper comfort meal.
Instant Pot Braised Coconut Chicken
This easy braised coconut chicken with cauliflower and sweet potatoes is a delicious, healthy dinner recipe that can be ready in 30 minutes.
Instant Pot Bolognese
This Bolognese sauce recipe is rich, delicious and so easy to make. It delivers the perfect meaty sauce that is guaranteed to become a family favorite.
Instant Pot Boeuf Bourguignon
This easy and delicious Boeuf Bourguignon recipe takes a fraction of the time it would normally take and is just perfect served with creamy mashed potatoes.
Instant Pot Guinness beef stew
Warming and delicious, this Guinness beef stew with vegetables is a hearty comfort food classic and is perfect served with Irish soda bread for dinner.
Instant Pot Butter Chicken
This butter chicken recipe is an easy, delicious dinner recipe. The aromatic sauce and juicy chicken is perfection serve with steamed rice.
Instant Pot Lamb Shanks
Instant Pot lamb shanks are impossibly tender and simply delicious. Served on creamy mashed potatoes, this is the showstopper comfort food dinner recipe that will become a regular in your dinner rotation.
More Instant Pot Recipes
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
You don’t get much easier than this Mashed Potatoes recipe. Fluffy, creamy and ready in minutes, this is the ultimate last-minute Thanksgiving recipe and is equally perfect for weeknight dinners.
Instant Pot Pulled Chicken
Juicy, succulent pulled chicken in BBQ sauce is a delicious, easy chicken recipe that is perfect to make ahead or when you’re serving a crowd.
Instant pot tomato risotto
The easiest way to make creamy risotto. This risotto recipe flavored with tomatoes and basil is a quick and easy vegetarian dinner recipe.
Instant Pot Rice Pudding
This Instant Pot Rice Pudding is the easiest way to make this creamy, comfort food classic in less than 20 minutes. Aromatic and sweetened to perfection, you’re going to love this easy dessert.
Instant Pot chicken tacos
These Instant Pot chicken tacos are ridiculously easy to make and delicious served with homemade pico de gallo and creamy avocado. They are perfect for Taco Night and can be prepared in advance for easy hosting.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 2-3 garlic cloves crushed
- 2 cups Arborio rice
- 4 cups stock
- ½ cup Tomato Passata
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes halved
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 cup grated Parmesan / Pecorino
- large handful fresh basil roughly chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Set the Instant Pot to the saute function. Add a few tablespoons of olive oil then add the onion and garlic.
- Cook for a few minutes until fragrant. Add the rice, passata, cherry tomatoes and stock. Season with a generous pinch of salt and pepper.
- Close the Instant Pot and set to the Pressure Cook function.
- Set the timer to 6 minutes then allow to come to pressure and cook. Once finished, quick release the pressure.
- Stir in the butter, Parmesan and basil then season to taste. If the risotto is very thick, you can add a little stock to loosen. Serve with extra basil and cheese.
Instructions without Instant Pot
- Heat a few teaspoons of oil in a large, deep pan. Add the onion and garlic and cook until fragrant.
- Add the Arborio rice and stir to combine with the onions.
- Add the tomatoes and Passata and stir in. Ladle in the stock, a little at a time, stirring and allowing to cook and absorb before adding in the rest. Continue doing this until the rice is creamy and cooked through.
- Add the butter, cheese and basil and stir in. Season to taste and serve.