The Modern Multi-cooker Cookbook: 101 Recipes for your Instant Pot®

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Almost anything can be made in an Instant Pot, including meat, pasta, vegetables, rice, and oatmeal. For example, you can make a beef and butternut squash stew to get used to your Instant Pot and then make the variation of Thai spiced beef stew once you feel more comfortable with the appliance. The organization of the cookbook and the thoroughness of its explanations earned it high marks among many reviewers; some do note, however, that a few of the recipes didn't turn out as flavorful as they expected. It includes 53 tasty kid-friendly recipes that cover a wide array of categories, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides, snacks, and desserts.

Whether you're new to pressure cooking or an old pro, you can rest easy knowing its recipes are rock solid.

Recipes are easy to follow and have enticing pictures which actually make you want to try the recipe - just so many to choose from.

For active people and busy families, one of these super-speedy cooking pots can be a miraculous time saver. For example, six minutes per thawed chicken breast would increase to nine minutes per frozen chicken breast. I would like make a couple of suggestions to improve the usefulness, especially for people like me who are learning to drive it.

Fabulous flavours, aromas and textures, which would normally take hours to create – with much stirring along the way – can be ready in minutes at the end of a busy working day, and healthy, nutritious meals are just a press of a button away. On the other hand, if your cookbooks end up stain-splattered and you’re fine with that, you’ll probably be more interested in the actual words rather than the appearance. Slow cookers and pressure cookers are known for making big batches of food, which isn’t convenient if you're not feeding a crowd and don’t want your fridge packed with leftovers the next day. I fried chopped onion, pepper, celery and carrot, mixed herbs, till onion was soft, added tinned tomatoes, crushed, stalks pulled out, a big dollop of tomato puree. An Instant Pot is an all-in-one cooking appliance that features functions that allow you to sauté, pressure cook, slow cook, make yogurt, and cook sous vide.

All those functions and buttons can make you nervous that you might blow up your kitchen if you make the wrong move. Expert nutritionist Jenny Tschiesche's tried-and-tested recipes provide a wealth of ideas for family meals from a 15-minute risotto to a leg of lamb. As the title implies, the ideas go beyond the final course to include other kinds of sweets, such as quick bread and breakfast treats.We loved the useful tips included at the end of each recipe, which comprise information about the ingredients, how to use an Instant Pot, and cooking tips. Yet it's important to note that multicookers and slow cookers are kissing cousins, doing the same work on different schedules. While it’s there for a reason, I also come back to the book over and over for basics like soft-boiled eggs (five minutes low pressure, manual release, ice bath) and smart modernizations on classics like risotto with wild mushroom, pancetta, and peas.

It also has a few more sophisticated ideas, like jackfruit tinga or pumpkin tamales, if you want something that goes beyond a quick weeknight dinner. In it, she offers recipes for imaginative meals that remain convenient for the cook, such as Japanese beef curry, green Persian rice with tahdig, smoky lentils, and osso buco. I've only just downloaded this app (we're finally ditching the box so I thought I'd see what it was about). Others can turn on the pressure and jam out an Instant Pot dinner in one go shortly after walking in the door. Respect to the poor food technologists who came up with the recipes but suffice to say I'll not be bothering to try any of these.Multi-cookers can sauté vegetables in 5 or 6 minutes, and cook a whole chicken in as little as 20, so is it any wonder they’ve taken the online community by storm? The cult phenomenon that is the multifunctional electric cooker is able to slow cook, steam, pressure cook and even saute. One source Julia trusts for sous vide recipes in particular is America's Test Kitchen: "The times and temperatures that you need to sous vide perfectly need to be precise, and [they're] one of the few sources I trust to test out all my favorite recipes," she says. In addition to Instant Pot cookbooks, she has also written about the best Mexican and vegan cookbooks.