I open all of my pressure cooker demos and classes making this dip because this recipe showcases how quickly and easily the stubborn eggplant (which takes, forever to become tender) can be prepared.
Instant Pot MINI 3-quart Pressure Cooker Recipes
Recipes that will fit in the 3-quart Instant Pot MINI electric pressure cooker without any changes! Plus, don’t miss our guide on how to shrink regular pressure cooker recipes to fit in the mini.
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Easy Butter Chicken – From Frozen Chicken Breast!
Juicy, tender and succulent chicken breast bathed in a thick flavorful sauce that's easy to make in the pressure cooker?!?! Believe it!
It's not easy to get good results frozen (or even...
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Easy Quinoa Freckled Rice – Pressure Cooker Side
Here's a cute variation from the standard plain 'ol white rice - in addition to looking cute it has a slightly nuttier flavor. A perfect fluffy bed to support your favorite veggie or meat...
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Mini Mania: Shrink Pressure Cooker Recipes for the Instant Pot MINI
This nearly pocket-sized 3-quart cooker is small and cute but cooking in a world of recipes written for larger pressure cookers is definitely a challenge! Here's how to adjust larger recipes, and...
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VIDEO: Zucchini & Sun-dried Tomato Sorgotto (Sorghum Risotto)
The "grains" are springy, the zucchini...
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Pressure Cooker Horchata – Mexican Sweet Rice Drink
Although rice is usually soaked, the pressure cooker hurries the process along so that you can get in 1 minute what would ordinarily take 8 hours. This drink is refreshing, lightly sweetened with...
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Silky Beef and Porcini Mushroom Stew – Pressure Cooker Recipe
This stew offers deep, rich notes of a slowly braised stew without the wait - or fancy knife skills (all the vegetables are roughly chopped). Porcini mushrooms add to that richness and maintain...
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Pressure Cooker Chocolate Lava Mug Cake
What is the point of whipping out the pressure cooker when you can just slide the mug in the microwave and call it a day? It’s how the pressure cooker heats-up foods that makes the lava in this cake possible.
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Skinny Cream of Broccoli Soup – Easy Pressure Cooker Recipe
The creaminess of this soup is in the texture – not the ingredients! I use one my favorite soup-thickening tricks to make this soup light yet satisfying.
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Steamed Broccoli & Steamer Baskets
Steaming broccoli sounds simple, right? But, first, we need a steamer basket to steam them with!
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Pressure Cooker Steamed Brown Rice
This is a pretty simple recipe that showcases how the pressure cooker’s steam can make perfect grains of fluffy rice – even brown rice! As we mentioned earlier
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Pressure Cooker Confetti Basmati Rice Recipe
This recipe shows you how to add vegetables to any pressure cooker rice dish but counting some of the vegetables as the cooking liquid. The exceptions
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Garlic Cauliflower Potato Mash – Sneaky Healthy Pressure Cooker Recipe!
Make this recipe with any kind of potato – leave the skin on for extra fiber and protein or peel it off before starting. It’s up to you. The pressure cooker will tenderize the skins so they’ll add color, but they will be barely noticeable texture-wise.
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Ketchup from Fresh Tomatoes in Pressure Cooker Minutes!
Make your very own ketchup from scratch in minutes of pressure cooking (and some simmering). Start with fresh tomatoes, add a few ingredients and spices to get a rich, sweet and...
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Pressure Cooker BBQ Sauce – Easy & Quick!
Make your own barbeque sauce to get full control of the ingredients and show off the pressure cooker's ability to infuse flavors in a flash. This sauce does not need to mature or age - when...
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Pressure Cooker Sushi?!? You can do it!
Make super-sticky sushi rice in your pressure cooker in just minutes! While the rice is pressure cooking you can prep the sushi fillings. This video features my son Vittorio...
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Basic Recipe: Pressure Cooker Quinoa
I came up with the 1-minute Quinoa pressure cooker method five years ago after seeing wildly different cooking times cited by other experts. I didn't like ending-up with mushy gruel-like...
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Maple Steel-cut Oats – Pressure Cooker Oatmeal
According to Prevention Magazine, steel-cut oats have a slightly lower glycemic index and fewer calories than rolled oats1. There is some debate about the significance of this...
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Strawberries & “Cream” Rolled Oats – Pressure Cooker Oatmeal
We fake this instant oatmeal classic by using milk and the oat's own starch as the cream. Whenever I could talk my mother into bringing home an Instant Oatmeal Variety Pack - the...
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Skinny Sloppy Joes with Tangy Slaw
Make these healthified Sloppy Joes from scratch and cut down their simmering time to 10 minutes of completely hands-off pressure cooking - during which you can make coleslaw.
A Sloppy Joe is...
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Candied Lemon Peels – new pressure cooker technique!
Another pressure cooker first that will save you loads of time (10 min pressure cooking vs. 60-90 simmering) and preserve lemon peels to use as home-made candy or to use in your...
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Pressure Cooker “Baked” Apples – really easy!
This is one of those deceptively easy recipes - that took forever to figure out. Wanting to duplicate my mother's hour-long oven baked apple down to every detail slowed...
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Make Ricotta Cheese with the Instant Pot SMART, DUO, ULTRA (or any pot)
Ricotta does not need a pressure cooker- it can be made with any 'ol pot with lots of supervision and stirring - but the automated programs of Instant Pot makes the process soooo much...
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Hot Hot, Hot Chocolate Fondue!
Sometimes you've just got to try something to believe it. Melting chocolate in the pressure cooker is one of those things.
Using the pressure cooker to melt chocolate goes against...
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Cozy Cream of Mushroom Soup
This recipe gets a concentrated mushroom flavor from the addition of dried mushrooms - try different types to completely change the flavor. To thicken the soup we went with potatoes instead of...
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Short-cut Potatoes: bake potatoes in half the time!
Sometimes, a boiled potato won’t do. On a whim, and then over and over and over again, I tossed the potatoes in the pressure cooker to pre-cook them a bit while my oven was pre-heating. WOW!
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Quick Cranberry Sauce from Dried Berries
The pressure cooker is used to quickly re-hydrate the cranberries with a squeeze of lemon to bring them back to life- the result is thick, tart, and lightly firm cranberry sauce.
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Beet it, just beet it. Beet it!
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...
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Millet! It’s the new quinoa.
Millet is a high-protein grain that will pressure cook in a flash to tender perfection. The mild, delicately nutty and lightly sweet-tasting millet can replace rice, couscous or quinoa in any recipe.
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Quick & Spicy Mango Chutney Under Pressure
Tangy, spicy and sweet a chutney can be made in the pressure cooker in just minutes.
We've pressure cooked marmalade and hot sauce - so when my jar of mango chutney was running low and...