Here are the top 10 The best Instant Pot Recipes of the year on The Typical Mom blog! If you’re looking for the most popular cheap Instant Pot Recipes and desserts they’re here! You can make them in your Crockpot Express or Ninja Foodi pressure cooker too.
Did you get a pressure cooker for Christmas or another occasion and looking for the best Instant Pot recipes around? Well here are the best Instant Pot recipes of the year for you to try! (affiliate links present)
Instant Pot One Pot Meals
I know there are a ton of pressure cooker recipes out there you can make for dinner, lunch or dessert. But, if you’re new you’ll want to start with the best. Thousands of others have tried these and given them a resounding thumbs up!
You can first check out the most recent recipes on the front of my page, or using the IP tab at the top of my menu bar. Our Crockpot Express recipes will work just as well in this machine too. All of these work as easy Ninja Foodi recipes as well, the brand doesn’t matter.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
Instant Pot Family Dinner Recipes
If you’ve followed The Typical Mom on Facebook at all you know how obsessed I am with this fancy multi cooker. I also love sharing new recipes each and every wee. I looked up my stats and had 14 MILLION page views!
- Step by step directions are a must
- Instant Pot videos are very helpful so you can watch me make each dish before you attempt it. Most of my recipes have videos in the post.
- A good resource is helpful, liking my free Easy Instant Pot Recipes page will be great for you
- You need to know the basic Instant Pot accessories to get, and which ones are a waste of money
Can you cook frozen meat in a pressure cooker?
Yes you can!! That has been a game changer for us. Instant Pot frozen ground beef was one of the most searched posts this year as far as cooking frozen meat in your pressure cooker because it’s so fast. I wrote an entire post about how to cook frozen meat in your Instant Pot because it was so popular.
Especially when it comes to a large piece of meat, this works great and it doesn’t require really any more time than it were defrosted! We show you How to Cook Frozen Roast in Instant Pot where you can use a chuck roast or other cut to make.
Can you cook dessert in an Instant Pot?
No surprise that the first pressure cooker recipes I ever made are the top 5! It’s nice that there is a variety. From snacks to meals and 2 Instant Pot dessert recipes too, you could enjoy these for a good 2 weeks and not get tired of them.
More specifically our Instant Pot rice pudding has been by far our favorite sweet creation. Made homemade is so much better than store bought with long grain rice with a creamy texture.
What are the most popular Instant Pot recipes?
Our roundup of Instant Pot recipes (tab at the top) has over 100 pressure cooker recipes I’ve created myself, this post in itself would keep you busy with something new for months!
- Instant Pot spaghetti with jar sauce is a recipe we still use once a week and is great to have on hand on really busy nights!
- Our easy 5 ingredient Instant Pot chili is a dump and go meal that has TONS of flavor and only 5 basic ingredients!
- This fun Instant Pot popcorn was our very first easy Instant Pot recipe we ever did and a fun experiment to do with your kids.
- Hearty Instant Pot potato corn chowder is a fantastic comfort food that you’ll want to make over and over again.
What is your all time favorite Instant Pot recipe?
I mean it is hard to narrow it down to just a few but I asked my kids and these were on their list too + the list above. What we make most often? Chili, hands down.
- I am forever forgetting to defrost what I need to make dinner. But cooking from frozen is possible with our Instant Pot ground beef recipes in no time.
- Our cheesy Instant Pot taco casserole is seriously amazing
- Instant Pot lasagna soup was one of our first creations in the IP but still a favorite and a fun way to eat “lasagna”.
If you are looking for Ninja Foodi recipes we have those too, but yes they’re interchangeable. You can use anything listed as pressure cooker with the lid that is NOT attached and the pressure cook button. Anything listed as air fryer can be made with the lid that is attached and the air crisp button.
Best Instant Pot Recipes of the Year
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground sausage, spicy is great
- 1 can kidney beans
- 1 can petite diced tomatoes
- 8 oz enchilada sauce
- 1 packet chili seasoning
Instructions
- Set pot to saute, add a dash of olive oil and your ground meat. Cook until outsides are no longer pink. Then turn pot off.
- Use wood spatula to scrape off any stuck on bits off of the bottom. Pour in all other ingredients and stir together.
- Seal lid and steam valve shut. Set to high pressure for 10 minutes with a quick release when done. Serve with cheese on top or over rice.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
It took so long to get past “my cute instant pot” and “buy this accessory “ that I gave up looking for recipes. The recipes may be amazing I’m just not patient enough to wade through all the other stuff to find out.
Trying to get to the apple crisp recipe but the link takes me to the spicy chicken one. Can you post the apple recipe? thank you!
Woopsie…fixed!!