THE ULTIMATE INSTANT POT COOKBOOK
BY DONNA NEWMAN
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Chapter 1: Instant Pot
Instant Pot is the modern version of a traditional stovetop pressure cooker. It is designed for automated cooking that demands less attention from its user. It comes with various cooking settings to make it an effortless cooking experience for you. All you need is to select the necessary cooking setting, add the recipe ingredients, close the lid and let Instant Pot cook delicious food for your whole family.
Its electric heating source generates high pressure inside to cook the added ingredients and can do all the functions that a slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, and yogurt maker does.
One Pot Multiple Benefits
Saves valuable time and energy
Instant Pot is designed for fast cooking and saves so much cooking time as compared to traditional cooking methods. Instant Pot is insulated to prevent heat from escaping. By preventing heat escape, it saves energy needed to cook food. By preparing food in real quick time, it maintains your high energy level to carry out other essential tasks.
Provides nutrient-rich food
As mentioned earlier, Instant Pot preserved essential nutrients of added ingredients by utilizing minimum liquid to cook food. Traditional cooking needs you to fully immerse the added ingredients underwater, while Instant Pot requires much less water and thus, prevents nutrients from being washed away.
Effortless cooking
Instant Pot provides you with flavorful cuisines in an effortless manner. It cooks food in an ideal manner to make it tastier and healthier. Its simple to use with automatic cooking functions, and it is easy to clean also for a completely effortless cooking experience.
Kills harmful micro-organism
Instant Pot saves your body from many harmful bacteria and viruses by killing them in high-temperature cooking. Many cereal, vegetable, and pulses are prone to contain bacteria and fungus, even after washing them. Such bacteria and viruses get killed during the cooking process in Instant Pot.
Various Settings
Rice
This is a special setting in which your Instant Pot transforms into a rice cooker. It cooks various rice varieties at low pressure and does the automatic cooking. You can use Adjust setting to increase or decrease cooking time.
Keep Warm/Cancel
With this setting, you can cancel any program that has been previously set. It is a useful cooking setting to put Instant Pot in standby mode.
Bean/Chili
With this setting, you can cook different varieties of beans and chilies. The default with this setting is high pressure for 30 minutes.
Stew
With this setting, you can make all your favorite stew recipes. The default with this setting is high pressure for 35 minutes.
Soup
With this setting, you can make all your favorite soups and broth recipes. The default with this setting is high pressure for 30 minutes.
Poultry
With this setting, you can make all your favorite chicken and turkey recipes. The default with this setting is high pressure for 15 minutes.
Meat
With this setting, you can make all your favorite meat-based recipes including lamb, pork, and beef. The default with this setting is high pressure for 35 minutes.
Porridge
With this setting, you can make all your favorite porridge and oatmeal recipes. The default with this setting is high pressure for 20 minutes.
Multigrain
With this setting, you can make all your favorite recipes from a mix of grains including different rice varieties, beans and so on. The default with this setting is high pressure for 40 minutes.
It comes with a 'MORE' setting with is set at 45 minutes of just warm water soaking for added grains. After soaking, Instant Pot cooks the soaked grains at high pressure for 2 hours. The 'LESS' setting is 20 minutes of cooking time.
Cake
With this setting, you can make varieties of delicious cakes.
Egg
With this setting, you can make varieties of egg-based recipes.
Manual
With this setting, you can manually set your own pressure and cook time.
Saut
This setting is exclusively for open lid browning, sauting, or simmering of common sauting ingredients such as oil, onions, spices, garlic, veggies, etc.
Slow Cook
With this setting, Instant Pot slow cooks the added ingredients just like a slow cooker does. You can prepare up to 40 hours. The default setting for slow cook is of 4 hours.
Steam
With this setting, you can steam veggies or reheating foods. The default with this setting is high pressure for 10 minutes.
Yogurt
The setting is for making different homemade yogurts with 8 hours of incubation time. You can use Adjust to increase or decrease time.
Special Instant Pot Functions
NPR (Natural Pressure Release)
With this setting, you can naturally release pressure after your cooking time gets over. Leave the vent valve alone until it releases all inside pressure gradually. When you see the silver button on top of the lid go down, it means that all inside pressure has been released.