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INSTANT POT RECIPES

Browse our always growing collection of recipes for your Instant Pot pressure cooker. Our favorites include Chicken Fajitas, Chicken Noodle Soup, Baked Potatoes, Turkey Breast and Chicken Thighs!

Instant Pot Spaghetti Recipe

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Instant Pot Spaghetti Recipe – the best spaghetti with ground beef, cooked in the pressure cooker. It won’t burn and is ready in 20 minutes, from start to finish.

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One of the most requested recipes to make in the Instant Pot is an easy pasta dish. I am excited to share my recipe for Instant Pot Spaghetti that won’t burn and is perfectly flavorful. It’s easy to make and ready just under 20 minutes (including the IP coming to pressure). This spaghetti is officially my family’s favorite IP dinner and is requested every week!

INSTANT POT SPAGHETTI

This Instant Pot Spaghetti is a perfect dish to have in your go-to pressure cooker recipes for busy weeknights or any day you want a big bowl of pasta. I have it in our weekly menu and switch it around with my Instant Pot Pasta Carbonara and Instant Pot Baked Ziti. It’s cooked with Italian sausage and ziti pasta and is absolutely delicious!

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Instant Pot Pot Roast Recipe

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Instant Pot Pot Roast Recipe – the best pot roast cooked in the Instant Pot pressure cooker, with carrots and potatoes. This tender and melt-in-your-mouth roast is rich in flavor, a true comfort food.

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When you are thinking of pot roast, you are envisioning a big cut of beef, roasting for hours with carrots and potatoes. Pot roast is a dish made with a tough cut of beef, cooked low and slow to get the meat to a stage when it’s tender and easily shredds. Carrots and potatoes are a classic vegetable company to the pot roast. Now, you can cook a rich and flavorful pot roast in your Instant Pot pressure cooker in a fraction of the time. The meat is tender, falls apart and the vegetables perfectly soft.

EASY INSTANT POT POT ROAST

Braising the meat before cooking is the secret to add flavor to a pot roast. Since the Instant Pot has a saute setting, it’s the perfect appliance to cook the pot roast in. This Instant Pot Pot Roast is cooked in beef stock, water, Worcestershire sauce and vinegar, as well as sauteed garlic, onion and mushrooms. The flavor is rich and comforting. The meat is tender and falling apart. Carrots and potatoes are soft yet not mushy.

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Instant Pot Burn Message

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Instant Pot Burn Message – what happens when your IP displays “burn”, what is the cause, how to fix it and how to prevent it in the first place.

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Seeing the burn message on your Instant Pot, can lead to a slight panic moment but remember: this is a smart appliance and it’s just telling you that the temperature at the bottom it too high and it turned off the heating element. It gives you a chance to fix the issue.

INSTANT POT BURN MESSAGE

Chances are that while cooking pasta dishes or chili in your Instant Pot, you saw the “burn” message on the display. The most common dishes that will cause that are pasta dishes and chili because of the thick sauce. If you read my Instant Pot Guide for Beginners, you know that the Instant Pot needs a thin liquid to come to pressure so a thick tomato based sauce is not ideal and it will cause the dish to burn on the bottom.

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