Pressure Cooking

Instant Pot Pressure Cooking Frozen Shredded Chicken

Ingredients Chicken 1 cup of water A packet of Trade Joes chicken stock Instructions 25 minutes on high with a quick release. Notes All chicken was over 200 degrees and very easy to shred. If the chicken breasts are thick I add an extra 5 minutes. I buy the 10 lb bags of Foster Farms frozen chicken at Costco and do three at a time. Some of the pieces are huge and 25 minutes wasn’t cutting it and 35 was too long.

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Instant Pot Pressure Cooking Spaghetti (Penne) and Meatballs

Ingredients 1 - 2 lbs of frozen meat balls 24 oz jar of sauce Italian seasoning 1 box of penne pasta Instructions Dump the meatballs into the Instant Pot. Level them out to try to create one layer. Put the noodles on top of the meatballs. Empty the jar of sauce onto the noodles. Fill the jar full of water and add that down the side of the container, so that the sauce isn’t washed to the bottom.

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Instant Pot Pressure Cooking Spaghetti Squash

Ingredients 1 spaghetti squash 1 cup of water Instructions Cut the spaghetti squash in half and scoop out the seeds. Put on the lid and set to high pressure for 8 minutes. Quick release when the timer goes off. Scrap out any strands and missed seeds. It should shred easily with a fork. Notes The first time I did this I used 7 minutes, but it wasn’t completely done so I had to put it back in for a minute.

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Instant Pot Pressure Cooking Steel Cut Oats

Ingredients 1 cup of oats 2.5 cups of water Instructions Add everything into the Instant Pot. Put on the lid and set to high pressure for 4 minutes. Natural release for 20 minutes when the timer goes off. Notes The oats came out pretty al dente, so I want to try 10 minutes with 20 minutes natural release.

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