We have loved pressure cooker week! I know you're dying to go out and grab one, we absolutely love ours. These pressure cookers will save your school night dinner scrambles, so you can spend more time doing homework with your kids having Bachelor nights with the girls.
As a recap, basically anything that can be done in the crockpot can be done in the pressure cooker 2-3 times as fast. You have to have liquid in the pot, so you're not going to get anything crispy in there. You can totally make desserts, frozen-solid hunks of meat, the electric ones made today come with all sorts of safety features so they're basically foolproof, it doesn't heat up your kitchen, and they're amazing. Get one. Go team.
We added pressure cooker directions to the bottom of each of these easy instant pot recipes. Look under "notes", and it'll tell you how to convert all of our favorite recipes to pressure cooker recipes. We'll continually add to this post as we create new ones!
50+ Easy Instant Pot Recipes
3. Pressure Cooker {Frozen} Roast Beef and Potatoes
4. Vegetarian Lentil Tacos
6. Japanese Curry
7. Coconut Steel-Cut Oats
8. Pulled Pork Nachos with Chipotle Lime Crema
10. Smokey Jalapeno and Bacon Chili
11. Game Day Ribs
12. Beef Noodles
13. Chipotle Chicken Salad
14. Four Cheese and Vegetable Lasagna
15. Basil Chicken with Rice Pilaf
16. Crockpot Tomatillo Chicken
17. BBQ Chicken Burrito
18. virtually any of our soups--if the soup needs browning of meats or veggies, you can do so in the open pot turned on to any setting. Add all ingredients except dairy or thickeners, lock lid, set to soup setting, cook anywhere from 10-20 minutes, depending on amount of hearty ingredients. Quick release, then add dairy or thickeners.
19. Hearty Pasta Sauce with Homemade Noodles
20. Smokey Pulled Pork and Pineapple Taquitos
21. Baby Food
22. Lemon Herb Chicken and Rice
23. Crockpot Mexican Pineapple Chicken
24. Indian Spiced Fall Roast Beef Stew
25. Lemon Sage Roasted Chicken
26. Zucchini Lasagna
27. Slow Roasted Pork Carnitas and Cilantro Rice
28. Slow-Cooker Italian Beef Sandwiches
29. Sloppy Joe Chili
30. Overnight Crockpot Pumpkin Oatmeal
31. Vegetarian Pumpkin Sweet Potato Curry
32. Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy over Rice
33. Dad's Chili
36. Vegetarian Mexican Stuffed Peppers
39. Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos
40. Decadent Hawaiian Haystacks
41. Dr. Pepper Chicken
43. Apricot Chicken
44. Southern Slow Cooker Shredded Pork
46. Homemade Creamy Mashed Potatoes
48. Crockpot Apple Pear Butter
49. Caribbean Rice and Beans
50. Mango Blueberry and Quinoa Salad
51. Homemade Applesauce
52. Black Bean Soup
53. Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Quinoa
55. Summer Quinoa Salad with Feta
58. Pressure Cooker Mini Cheesecakes
60. Pressure Cooker Broccoli Beef
61. Instant Pot Beef Barbacoa Tacos
62. Shredded Pork Tacos with Mango Salsa
63. Beef Stroganoff
How to Adapt Recipes for Pressure Cooker
We haven't been using them too long, but we gathered a list of our current recipes that we think would be perfect for a pressure cooker. A lot of you said that you had no clue where to start or what you could make in your pressure cooker. We linked to our Power Pressure Cooker XL at the bottom of the post, and also want to shout out to one of the most resourceful blogs we've found, Pressure Cooking Today. She explains how to convert any recipe to a pressure cooker recipe here. We explained a bit in each of our posts this week, but she answers any questions you might have being a newbie. Go out and get one and let us know what recipes worked and some of your favorite ones to make!
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Lindsay says
Yoh mentioned in the Bbq chicken recipe for lreasure cooking you can change time to 40 or 60 minutes. This is a lot longer than the 15minutes it aUto sets to. Is this because the 40-60minute cook time is at a lower pressure?
Thanks!
Nikki says
Is there a recip for yogurt using the pressure cooker xl?
Kadee says
We don't have one on our site right now, but it is in the works!
Bonnie T. says
I just received the power pressure cooker Xl for Christmas and can't wait to use it. All of these recipes look delicious! The hard part will be deciding which yummy dish to cook first!
Catherine says
Im making bone brOth and id like to cook it longer then60 minutes (max on this unit). How do i go about it? Mostof the recipes for bone broth call for 2 hours.
Stephanie says
My husband actually just figured this out recently—if you use the canning/preserving button, it’ll let you set the timer for longer than 60 minutes. Cheers!
christi says
could you please update these recipes with pressure cooker instructions?
The majority of recipes are really regular stovetop or slow cooker recipes that could (I guess?) be adapted for a pressure cooker - but you leave it up to your reader to figure it out the settings. Do I use manual pressure? the poultry setting? the soup setting? natural release? quick release? Each recipe is going to have different settings.
These really aren't pressure cooker recipes that you've gathered. It's pretty disappointing.
Stephanie says
Sorry you were disappointed, Christi. If you search online, there are many posts on how to convert recipes to pressure cooker recipes. If you search for a similar recipe (for example, that Summer Quinoa Salad post that you also commented on, you could find a pressure cooker quinoa recipe and use those instructions) and just adapt to our ingredients. Our readers told us they don't know where to start, or what things they can make in a pressure cooker! We wanted to give them somewhere to start. We do plan on slowly adding pressure cooker instructions to all of the 50+ recipes, but in the meanwhile maybe you could search for one of those converter posts. Thanks for your advice!