Ivy Manning - Instant Pot Miracle 6 Ingredients or Less: 100 No-Fuss Recipes for Easy Meals Every Day

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Manning, Ivy, author. | Ione, Morgan, photographer.
Title: Instant Pot miracle 6 ingredients or less : 100 no-fuss recipes for easy meals every day / Ivy Manning ; photography by Morgan Ione.
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024869 (print) | LCCN 2018025875 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328557131 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328557124 (trade paper) | ISBN 9781328633422 (trade paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Pressure cooking. | Electric cooking. | Quick and easy cooking. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.
Classification: LCC TX840.P7 (ebook) | LCC TX840.P7 M36 2018 (print) | DDC 641.5/87dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024869

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Ive spent hundreds of hours cooking and testing recipes with my Instant Pots. And Ive had about the same number of students, acquaintances, and sceptics ask me, Will the Instant Pot really make cooking meals easier and faster? I look them right in the eye and say, YES!

With this book, Ill show you that delicious meals can be prepared quickly and easily without a long list of ingredients or complicated steps. Ive combined my decades of experience writing cookbooks and 30-minute meals features for national magazines, teaching home-cooking classes, and doing extensive work developing recipes for the Instant Pot to come up with one hundred recipes featuring just six ingredients or less.

I dont count oil , store-bought broths , vinegar , or salt and pepper , since youve probably got those in your pantry already. Any additional ingredients are shown in red in the ingredients list of each recipe so you can write a shopping list with a quick glance. I use common ingredients that most grocery stores carry and often note which brands I find work best.

What you wont find in this book are recipes that rely on cans of cream-of-whatever soups or precooked convenience foods full of sodium and artificial ingredients, because I believe home-cooked food should be just that: home cooked.

I know that your time is limited and youre probably coming to the kitchen at hangry o clock. Thats why I include information at the head of every recipe that will tell you exactly how much active time (chopping, sauting) and how much total time youll need for each recipe.

In more than a dozen cases, I include an option to use either the PRESSURE COOK or the SLOW COOK function, so you can choose which method works best for your schedule. Speaking of time, look for Tasty Tip notes for ideas on making the recipe faster, choosing the best ingredients, or changing up the recipe with additional ideas so you can make the recipe your own and make the most of whatever ingredients you happen to have on hand.

Ive also focused on making a lions share of the recipes in this book full meals all by themselves; they are labeled with an icon at the top of the page. Think Beefy Taco Pasta, Hoppin John with Greens, Pork Chops with Tuscan Beans, and Shrimp Paella.

Another way to get complete meals on the table quickly is to use the pot in pot method. In these recipes, a side dish is cooked in the Instant Pot at the same time as the main, in a separate baking dish or steamer basketsee Chicken and Quinoa Burrito Bowls, Barbecue Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, Turkey Breast with Stuffing and Gravy, or Fig-Glazed Ham with Dilly Potatoes, to name a few. Check out the Helpful Equipment list () for info on the few items youll need to try these multilevel cooking methods. Theyre definitely worth having to get the most out of your Instant Pot, and theyre inexpensive.

The Instant Pot is a great kitchen tool to make side dishes, too. It can make corn on the cob, creamy mashed potatoes, Sriracha and honey-glazed winter squash, polenta, and perfectly steamed artichokes with just a press of the button, so you can focus on the entre.

At the close of the book, Ive included recipes for the best homemade broths youll ever taste. Ive also included handy charts for cooking different types of grains and beans so you can have a pantry stocked with homemade staples with no fuss. A pantry (or freezer) stocked with these items will mean you can have meals ready in minutes.

Armed with this book and your trusty Instant Pot, I hope youll discover familiar favorites made easy and exciting new dishes to add to your regular dinner rotation, and I hope you become more confident with your Instant Pot. Good luck and bon apptit!

When youre using just six ingredients, the flavor of each ingredient really counts. Use good-quality staples like extra-virgin olive oil, premium packaged broths, meats graded choice or better, and fresh spices. Be a little bit of an ingredient snobit goes a long way to making your meals awesome. On , Ive included a list of the ingredient staples youll come across frequently in this book.

The programing of your Instant Pot varies slightly from model to model. Read your users manual to acquaint yourself with the step-by-step programming before you start making recipes in this book. After a few recipes, the steps will become second nature.

Note that I use the PRESSURE COOK descriptor (on earlier models the same function is labeled MANUAL ). The SAUT and SLOW COOK functions on older Instant Pot models use the heat settings LESS/NORMAL/MORE , while newer models use LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH . To avoid confusion, Ive included both in this book, i.e., adjust to MORE/HIGH heat.

If youre starting a recipe by browning meat or sauting vegetables, press SAUT and adjust the appliance to the instructed heat first, then prep your ingredients while it is heating up. After a few minutes, the Instant Pot will be hot enough to saut ingredients long before HOT appears on the display screen. To test if a dry pot is hot, flick a few drops of water into the potthey will sizzle when the pot is ready. If youre starting with oil, add a small piece of foodit will sizzle when the oil is hot enough to saut the remaining ingredients.

Instant Pot recommends using at least 1 to 1 cups of thin liquid in order to build up enough steam for pressure cooking. With that said, most ingredients release quite a bit of liquid as they cook. This has been factored into the recipes in this book, so you wont see 1 or 1 cups broth or water in every recipe. In cases where some of the liquid is marinara sauce or canned tomatoes, I specify brands that are thin enough to work with the recipes.