23 Favorite Instant Pot Recipes
This comprehensive list of the best instant pot recipes includes everything from delicious shredded chicken to breakfast oatmeal to soups to mashed potatoes to pasta!
Let your Instant Pot do all the work for super easy dinners (and breakfasts!). So many of these recipes are ultra-easy, set-it-and-forget-it meals meant to make your life easier.
If you want to think outside the box and change your culinary world forever, do yourself a favor and make the Instant Pot lemon curd. WOW!
What’s YOUR favorite Instant Pot recipe to make (whether on this list or not)??
1
Instant Pot Chicken Parmesan Soup
One reader had this to say about this delectable soup: “I liked this so much more than I even expected! Served it with the Peasant Cheese Bread and felt like I was at a fancy restaurant….where I had to do the dishes. Excellent dinner.”
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2
Instant Pot Lentil Tacos
It has been reported that even “must have meat at dinner” people rave about these lentil tacos. They are tremendous!
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3
Instant Pot Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
This Instant Pot creamy tomato basil soup is incredible! It is fast and flavorful and PERFECT for a little grilled cheese dipping.
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4
Instant Pot Pasta Alfredo
My kids absolutely love this easy pasta recipe – and I love that they can easily make it themselves!
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5
Amazing Instant Pot Lemon Curd
I'm telling you, this lemon curd is SO easy and SO amazing. It's delicious on cakes, cookies, toast or bread, pancakes, scones…or just eaten by the spoonful.
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6
Instant Pot Double Chocolate Steel Cut Oats
Chocolate oatmeal? For breakfast? Sign me up! The Instant Pot makes quick and easy work of steel cut oats for a super hearty breakfast!
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7
Instant Pot Salsa Verde Chicken
This fairly new recipe is already garnering rave reviews – so simple and so versatile!
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8
Instant Pot BBQ Pork Tacos
Change up your Taco Tuesday game with this BBQ pork taco recipes – yummy!
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9
Instant Pot Red Coconut Curry Noodles
The reviews don't lie on this one: “Made this tonight and literally licked the bowl! Soooo yummy!!”
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10
Amazing Instant Pot Creamy “Baked” Ziti
This is one of our most oft-made recipes. It converted me to how amazing it is to make pasta in the Instant Pot!
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11
Honey Balsamic BBQ Pork Sandwiches
This variation on traditional pulled pork sandwiches is packed with delicious flavor. I love eating this pork on soft buns and a crunchy, vinegary slaw. Yum!
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12
Instant Pot Banana Bread Steel Cut Oats
Another steel cut oat variation that is so wholesome, hearty, and delicious. We love eating this with chopped pecans and sliced bananas.
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13
Instant Pot White Chicken Black Bean Chili
I love the hearty creaminess of this easy chili. The flavors are so good! You can easily make it meatless, too.
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14
Instant Pot Mexican Pork
Serve this zesty Mexican-style pork in tortillas, on salads, or wrapped up in burritos!
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15
Instant Pot Spaghetti
We make this Instant Pot Spaghetti all the time – it is so easy, and I always have the ingredients on hand, which makes it a great meal when I haven't planned ahead.
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16
Creamy Coconut Steel Cut Oats
At this point, we should have a moment of silence for how dreamy it is to make steel cut oats in the Instant Pot. This coconut version is amazing!
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17
Instant Pot Indian Butter Chicken and Potato Curry
The meat and veggies all cook together for this butter chicken recipe, which makes it a super hearty, healthy dinner with hardly any work!
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18
Perfect Instant Pot Beef Stew
Believe it! This Instant Pot recipe really does make perfect beef stew.
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19
Tender Greek Pork
This easy and delicious shredded pork is so tasty wrapped in pita bread with tzatziki sauce and fresh toppings (like lettuce and tomatoes).
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20
Instant Pot Lentil Chili
No question, this is one of my favorite chili recipes ever! Lots of you agree: “MEL!! This was so good. Served it with cornbread, topped with avocado and sour cream. My whole family loved it. Will be adding this to our rotation!”
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21
Instant Pot Cheesy Potato Soup
If you love creamy, cheesy soups, you're going to be gobsmacked at how good this potato soup is. I make this often as a take-in meal to others because it is so family-friendly!
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22
Instant Pot Smoky Honey Cilantro Chicken
This recipe has been around a long time, and hundreds of you have declared it the “best chicken ever.” Serve it a million different ways!
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23
Life-Changing Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Yes, these mashed potatoes are life changing. I haven't made mashed potatoes another way in almost ten years. They can stay warm for HOURS in the Instant Pot.
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