Johns - Lose weight with your Instant Pot: 60 easy one-pot recipes for fast weight loss

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Contents Australia HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd. Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia www.harpercollins.com.au Canada HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower 22 Adelaide Street West, 41st Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 4E3 www.harpercollins.ca India HarperCollins India A 75, Sector 57 Noida Uttar Pradesh 201 301 www.harpercollins.co.in New Zealand HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand Unit D1, 63 Apollo Drive Rosedale 0632 Auckland, New Zealand www.harpercollins.co.nz United Kingdom HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF, UK www.harpercollins.co.uk United States HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 195 Broadway New York, NY 10007 www.harpercollins.com AUDREY JOHNS is the author of Lose Weight by Eating: 130 Amazing Clean-Eating Recipe Makeovers for Guilt-Free Comfort Food and Lose Weight by Eating: Detox Week, and the creator of the blog Lose Weight by Eating. She has appeared on CBSs The Doctors, Rachael Ray, the Today show, Hallmarks Home & Family, and The 700 Club, and has been featured on the covers of Womans World and Indulge Magazine.

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Please make sure when using an Instant Pot to follow the manufacturers instructions for safe use. The publisher and author disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects resulting directly or indirectly from information contained in this book, including but not limited to those resulting from the use of an Instant Pot. Instant Pot is a registered trademark of Double Insight Inc. Lose Weight with Your Instant Pot is an independently created book and is not endorsed, sponsored, or authorized by Double Insight Inc., the owner of the Instant Pot trademark. This book contains advice and information relating to health care.

It should be used to supplement rather than replace the advice of your doctor or another trained health professional. If you know or suspect you have a health problem, it is recommended that you seek your physicians advice before embarking on any medical program or treatment. All efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of the information contained in this book as of the date of publication. This publisher and the author disclaim liability for any medical outcomes that may occur as a result of applying the methods suggested in this book. LOSE WEIGHT WITH YOUR INSTANT POT . Copyright 2018 by Audrey Johns.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Cover design by Alicia TatoneCover photograph Carl KravatzPhotography by Carl Kravats FIRST EDITION Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-287543-3 Version 10092018 Print ISBN: 978-0-06-287455-9 For Kate, the woman who taught me to cook. I would not be a cookbook author without you. You were a dear friend, an inspiration, and always a bright spot in my life.

To Ruby and Violet, I love you, sweet girls. Know that your beautiful mama was an amazing woman, she loved you very much, and she will always be with you. You will be missed, my dear. This book is for you.

O ne cold Monday night I got a text message from my literary agent, Sarah, saying, Hi!! Give me a call when you have a moment!! I was at drum class with my daughter, Sophia, and I ducked outside into the winter chill to call her. My second cookbook had just come out, so I assumed it was about that book.

We have an idea, she said. Do you want to write an Instant Pot cookbook? I was excited to write a book showcasing my healthy comfort food in the popular electronic pressure cookerit seemed like a match made in heaven! Within a week I had my Instant Pot out and was testing recipes. Instant Pots have been featured on many online cooking boards, where people often say, Ive had my IP for six months and finally took it out of the box todaywhy did I wait so long? Thats how many feel about this equipment... its a little daunting to use the first time, but once you get started, youre hooked! A month later I had two different sizes of Instant Pot, a 6-quart and a 3-quart (or Momma Bear and Baby Bear, as I named them). Soon I was using them daily! They defy all the rules I know about cooking... such as that brownies need to be baked (see my Ive ever had.

So if you havent yet embraced the Instant Pot, open the box and get startedits easier than it seems! And if you already love your IP, enjoy these skinny recipes to help you slim down and enjoy the comfort food you know and love. Happy cooking, XO Audrey W hats so special about the Instant Pot? Some of you will be new to the Instant Pot and others will already be well versed in the equipment. Heres why I love this amazing piece of kitchen gear: I can cook a meal in a fraction of the time. I have a busy life, and often I realize late in the afternoon that I have nothing planned for dinner. Instant Pot meals can be finished in a matter of moments. I can walk away from the pot to get ready in the morning while it cooks my breakfast, or to do homework with my kiddo in the afternoon and trust that dinner will come out perfectly without any effort on my part.

I love the keep warm feature on the Instant Pot. Recently I made and was able to leave the house to attend a Girl Scout troop meeting and come home to dinner. Just as with the slow cooker, you can walk away and come back to a perfect meal, and that makes it great for my busy schedule. I can make almost anything in the Instant Pot! From breakfast to dessert and everything in betweenits a lifesaver! I love how easy the cleanup is, since you can make a whole meal in one pot (or two if I need both of my Instant Pots... yes, I have two). Not a saut pan, a pot, and a casserole dish.

I love that my kiddo can help out. Theres no open flame, so its a great device for teaching a child to cook! She loves to add all the ingredients and press the buttons. And kids are always more open to trying new things when they have helped prepare them. Just a bit of housekeeping before we get started, to help you make the recipes in this book. Ill keep this short and sweet, as most of this will be in your Instant Pot manual. There are lots of fun buttons on your Instant Pot, but each model is a little bit different (for instance, my Instant Pots dont have a yogurt button).

So I tried to stick to the settings that are universal: saut, egg, manual, and keep warm/cancel. HIGH PRESSURE When a recipe instructs you to cook on high pressure, that simply means you cover the pot, close the valve, and hit the manual button. LIGHTLY COVERED A couple of the recipes say to lightly cover your pot. Some Instant Pots come with a glass lid, and you can use that here, or you can use the regular Instant Pot lid. But if you do, set the lid a bit askew so that its covering the pot but not settled into the machine. QUICK RELEASE When youre instructed to do a quick release, use a wooden spoon to push the pressure valve to venting.

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