Instant Pot - Healthy cooking

thekturpin · October 2019

Anyone here into using the Instant Pot to cook healthy home made meals? Look for friends here on my fitness pal that can help give me ideas.

Karen

lisawentzel1972 · October 2019

One of our instapot favorites is chicken with green salsa. Literally those two ingredients. You can season the chicken with spices to give it more flavor but it's a super simple healthy meal. Serve with corn tortillas and some pico.

MsOpus · October 2019

I love my instant pot. I am still learning how to use it, but I often just cook up a few chicken breasts in it and shred them to keep in the fridge to throw onto salads or into wraps. it does hard boiled eggs perfectly, another thing I just keep in the fridge for snacks and lunch box things.
I steam veggies in it all the time.
I take all the lil bits of frozen fruit from the bottoms of the bags and put it in a steamer basket. Add about 4 cups water and pressure cook 5 minutes. take the "juice" that's left when it's done, the strainer keeps the "chunks" out and make ice cubes. Great healthy way to shake up your water! Or if you use a soda stream, you can use the fruit juice for flavoring.

kshama2001 · October 2019

I don't have one but subscribe to allrecipes, who emailed me this recently: 12 Instant Pot Ground Beef Dinners

I'm sure you can get lots of other ideas from there as well. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/22882/everyday-cooking/instant-pot/

I always read the comments and look for trends, such as a lot of reviewers saying the same thing, such as "Needs more salt" or "Cooking time is too long" or whatever.

Katmary71 · October 2019

I'm so happy summer weather is going away! I've mostly made beans and lentils over summer with yogurt and potatoes thrown in. I'm ready for soups and chilis! I haven't tried chicken breasts yet but have a few jars of salsa to try salsa chicken. I bought pot-in-pots to try with salmon and vegetables but haven't tried that yet either. My egg bite and steamer accessories aren't being used.

aries68mc · October 2019

I've had mine only a couple of weeks or so and have only done hb eggs and oatmeal so far. I do belong to a couple of groups on Facebook, one is for healthy instant pot recipes. If you are FB, check them out. Lots of ideas and members are so excited about their instant pots!

caprihana · October 2019

Have you tried an app called Copy Me That? They have a whole group on there with IP recipes, some of them might need a tweaking a bit to make them healthy but that's not too hard. I Love my IP!

aries68mc · October 2019

Speaking of apps, Instant Pot does have their own app with a recipe database.

sammidelvecchio · October 2019

I love my instant pot! I've had it since 2016. My favorite healthy meals are soups and chilis. I haven't made any recently with the hot weather, so none are in my recipes yet but i'll need to start building those soon so feel free to add me! I'm making my first batch of chili tonight

Chicken breasts are great - I buy a frozen bag from Kroger, put them in with about a cup of water or 2, doesn't really matter, and some seasoning. Cook on manual - high for 12 minutes and then shred. Great for tacos or whatever. Sometimes I just eat the meat with some cheese.

Some other favorites of mine are beef stew, chicken noodle soup, cream of asparagus, turkey chili, broccoli+rice+chicken, and chicken burrito bowls. I get all of my recipes from Pinterest!

kizanne2 · October 2019

I love mine for whole chicken roasted. Freezer to table in about an hour.

Bone broth. Which I keep in the freezer/fridge for soup base.

leonard41704 · October 2019

We use ours all the time. I get the majority of my recipes from the Yummly app and www.365daysofcrockpot.com.

nytrifisoul · October 2019

Pretty much any shredded meat you make in the instant pot will be healthy as long as you use a fat seperator. One of my favorite "healthy" dishes is shredded chicken enchilada's. I like to use chicken thighs and just use the fat seperator. You can use chicken breasts, but your not really making it much healthier because after 60 min in the instant pot all the fat is already in the liquids you are going to seperate.

After the chicken is shredded, i use a meatloaf pan and pour a 1 inch layer of canned red enchilada sauce, then fold the shredded chicken into yellow corn tortilla's or you can use white, i prefer yellow. (tip, steam them before trying to fold as they tend to break when folding) then pour another 1 inch layer overtop the enchilada's and top with shredded cheddar and bake in the oven at 350F for 15 min. Serve and enjoy with or without some sour cream/quacamole/hot sauce.

Evamutt · October 2019

we got it as a gift last Christmas & love it. Even my husband uses it, he's only cooked on the grill all these years. I like to try new things. One of them recently was creamy wild rice mushroom soup. It was SO good

Katmary71 · October 2019

OK, since I last posted I made chicken salsa, seriously easy and tastes great! Had split pea barley jalapeno soup at the end of last week and 3 bean Turkey chili this weekend. I loosely followed skinnytaste's recipe, I added a lot of vegetables and heat to it but would try her recipes again.

kshama2001 · October 2019

nytrifisoul wrote: »

Pretty much any shredded meat you make in the instant pot will be healthy as long as you use a fat seperator. One of my favorite "healthy" dishes is shredded chicken enchilada's. I like to use chicken thighs and just use the fat seperator. You can use chicken breasts, but your not really making it much healthier because after 60 min in the instant pot all the fat is already in the liquids you are going to seperate.

After the chicken is shredded, i use a meatloaf pan and pour a 1 inch layer of canned red enchilada sauce, then fold the shredded chicken into yellow corn tortilla's or you can use white, i prefer yellow. (tip, steam them before trying to fold as they tend to break when folding) then pour another 1 inch layer overtop the enchilada's and top with shredded cheddar and bake in the oven at 350F for 15 min. Serve and enjoy with or without some sour cream/quacamole/hot sauce.

Except for when I need fat for making a roux/gravy, I haven't separated fat since the '90s.

nytrifisoul · October 2019

kshama2001 wrote: »

Except for when I need fat for making a roux/gravy, I haven't separated fat since the '90s.

Thats what butter is for. Or Bacon drippings. But even if you insist on using the fat, there is no reason you cant use the fat leftover in the seperator.

DancingMoosie · October 2019

I have a mealthypot. I use it almost daily. It makes great brown rice. My husband cooks ribs, pork loin, beef roast, and veggies in it. We've had a little trouble with dry beans though. The recipes we've found, as well as the machine and quick tips, all severely underestimate cook time. Should we soak the beans first?

Hubzilla · October 2019

We've had our instant pot over a year - I usually cook on the grill where I can get cook it right or overcook it and I'm a helpful husband. The instantpot allows me to cook chicken which usually scares me on the grill because it is usually overcooked and dry or under cooked and pink. Instantpot and 25 minutes and the chicken is good - legs, drums, breasts, or roaster. Woo Hoo! I can cook chicken (and it makes rice and makes dried beans-it's the best!)