These healthy Instant Pot recipes will make your life easy. Get ready to cook some seriously delicious dishes that will have you licking your fingers. Cheap and easy instant pot recipes like hearty soup, healthy snacks, and flavor-packed dinners. Who doesn’t love the idea of dumping everything into the pot and having it do all the magic for you?
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An Instant Pot is a versatile kitchen essential that is practically a lifesaver. Perfect for those busy weeknights when you have less time and low energy to spend like 2 hours in the kitchen cooking. I love either the 6-quart Instant Pot DUO or the 8-quart Instant POT Lux. The 8 quart is perfect for cooking for a large crowd or meal-prepping large batches of food. It comes in handy during holidays like Easter and Thanksgiving.
I use and highly recommend the 6-quart Instant Pot for daily use. It’s perfect for a family of 4+, stainless steel insert, and has 14 smart program settings.
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You will love this chili recipe, it’s so easy to make and extremely delicious. It will only take about 30 minutes to have this meal ready and the cool part is that you can brown your beef and cook your bacon in the instant pot too. Which makes everything easier. You can make it spicer by adding red chili flakes or minced habaneros. It’s perfect for those cold months.
This is better than the takeout version. It’s healthy, low-carb, keto, and paleo-friendly. Just like the Chinese restaurant version, this is sweet and spicy so there is nothing you will be missing out on.
This Kung Pao Chicken is great for leftovers. Make a batch on the weekend and it will be perfect for that quick lunch or for those lazy nights, you don’t feel like cooking.
The total time to have this ready is 21 minutes only.
Instant Pot Chicken Breasts
This screams deliciousness from miles away. The chicken breasts are so tender and juicy. Simply cooked to perfection. You can have them over pasta or salad. Make sure you brown the chicken breasts before putting them in the pot to lock in as much juiciness as possible. The total time needed is 22 minutes.
Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice
My favorite dish in this round-up of healthy instant pot recipes because it’s easy to make and requires very minimal preparation. You don’t even need to presoak the beans, how cool is that? Don’t you just love the idea of adding all ingredients in the instant pot for a while and getting a ready meal? This dish is very favorable, you won’t be disappointed.
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Instant Pot Korean Ground Beef
So delicious, and versatile, and it’s made with common ingredients. Can be served with rice or tacos or as a lettuce wrap. It’s so satisfying and filling.
Healthy Instant Pot Recipes: Russian Chicken
This Russian chicken is so sweet, juicy, and tangy and it will be ready in less than 30 minutes. Great as a freezer meal too.
This pressure cooker barbacoa beef will melt in your mouth. Very easy to make and you don’t even require advanced cooking skills, so if you are like me an amateur cook, you are good. To add more flavor to the finished dish, you need to brown the roast. You can serve it with lime rice or even tacos. Total cook time is 1 hour 5 minutes.
Healthy Instant Pot Recipes: Teriyaki Chicken
Teriyaki chicken is a popular Japanese takeout in many homes but this beat the that. This is way better, almost perfect you may say if served with homemade teriyaki sauce. Sweet, tender and you only need 10 minutes to prep. You can serve it with rice, quinoa, or noodles.
Full recipe here
Instant Pot Coconut Tandoori Chicken Recipe
The chicken is so tender it practically falls apart. It’s creamy and juicy and it’s coated with gravy-like coconut curry-ish sauce. There are so many side options for this coconut chicken such as rice, sandwiches, salads, wraps, and tacos.
A hearty soup that will keep you full and warm in the colder days. The smoky ham hock, thyme, garlic, and bay leaves together give you a great flavor, you will be licking the bowl later.
Instant Pot Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork
This pulled pork is so juicy, delicious, and tender, that it practically falls apart. It’s perfect served on bread, rice, or even pizza. You can make it in batches and have it as a sandwich for a quick dinner or lunch. Cook time is only 52 minutes.
Are you looking for the best appetizers for your game night? You are in the right place. These glazed meatballs are sweet, moist, tender, and sticky. They will be a crowd pleaser. You can easily customize them by swapping the sauce to your preferred one. You only need 40 minutes to have them ready.
Veggie Packed Spaghetti With Meat Sauce
This will be a favorite in the whole family. Hearty, delicious, filling, nutritious and to top it all it’s very quick and easy to make. Perfect for busy weeknights, those nights you come home and are too tired to spend so much time in the kitchen.
15 minutes is all you need.
Delicious juicy chicken that will have you asking for seconds. You only need two ingredients that is the salsa and the chicken. There are so many side dishes such as tacos, salad, and rice.
Scrumptious. The best word to describe this pizza. Easy to make and everyone will be happy with their meal. To add more flavor brown the sausage in the pot. Perfect for a quick easy dinner, it will only take 15 minutes.
Instant Pot Mac and Cheese recipe
Mac and cheese is an absolute favorite dish, anytime all year round. This version is so creamy, flavorful, cheesy, and thick. Delicious and easy to make too. It’s sprinkled with buttery toasted golden bread crumbs, smoky crispy bacon bits, and crunchy scallions. Finger licking is good.
With these instant pot recipes, you are guaranteed a good meal on those busy and lazy nights. Preparing any meal will be a breeze, and you will have more time to spend with your family.
Which one of these healthy instant pot recipes are going to try first? Let us know in the comments below.
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Hi, just click on the recipe title.
The Korean Ground Beef recipe is not linked to the recipe website. Here is the link: https://www.simplyhappyfoodie.com/instant-pot-korean-ground-beef-bulgogi/