The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook: Fresh and Foolproof Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker

The best Instant Cookbook I have found! The recipes work, are delicious, and easy to prepare. Best of all the charts and information are extremely helpful. This is my second copy as I am giving it for a gift to a new IP user.

Finally! Here’s the cookbook that lets you get to know this wonderful new appliance by providing very basic, well known favorite recipes adapted for the One Pot. That’s all most of us really want to know, at least in the beginning....how do I cook a plain pot roast or corned beef or BBQ ribs using pressure? After all, the pressure cooker capability is the main feature that moves us to make the purchase. But lots of folks, like yours truly, really want and need some basic training before feeling comfortable enough to tackle something besides rice pudding. This great book gives you all the answers, including the very vital info about high altitude adjustment. Just about every other recipe collection I came across was chock full of weird ingredients of unknown use and certainly not available anywhere near my little town. And if I can’t feel capable of using a new appliance, it just won’t get used. Besides explaining the machine and it’s various modes of cooking, Ms Morante includes simplified instructions, suggestions for pantry items to have handy, quick reference charts, and a section of much appreciated “pantry” recipes for commonly used items such as Quick Mayonnaise, Marinara Sauce, broths, and so on. Another giant plus is that her cooking charts are extensive: more veggies than you’ll ever know, both fresh and frozen. I can’t say enough about this book! The price is most reasonable and overall, it’s a 10 out of 5 !!

We LOVE this and it is our go-to for Instant Pot meals. It would hands-down have 5 stars from us if the binding weren’t falling apart (how does this happen any more?). I went on Amazon to look into if it’s being made differently now bc I would order a new one, and I realized I never wrote an initial review. We’ve had the book and pot since Xmas, 2017, and it’s been a culinary game changer. The Arroz Con Pollo is a frequent cook for us now. We also love the Jambalaya, Irish Beef Stew, Momo Meatballs and Curry, Turkey Chili, and we frequently make the Quinoa Porridge and Brown Butter Oats for breakfast. We’ve also made the chocolate cake which was really good as well. This book, Indian Instant Pot Cookbook, and Dinner in an Instant have inspired a new rating system for us because they are all so good: most meals range from 4.5 stars to 5 with variations, such at 4.95, 4.96, etc. I was lurking on some of the one star reviews and if simplicity is a concern I can see where this might not be a good fit. The upside is greater complexity of flavors and interesting ingredients I would not have been typically using. Amazing book, strangely bad binding.

I purchased this at the same time as my Instant Pot on Prime Day, based on reviews I read on Amazon. It's a great book for 1st time users and beyond, with comprehensive directions on how to use the Instant Pot, suggested pantry items and tools, as well as how to convert recipes. The recipes are easy to follow with beautiful accompanying pictures. They are organized into chapters that are easy to navigate: breakfast, beans and grains, soups and chilis, poultry, beef and pork, vegetables and side dishes, and desserts. I've been obsessed with my Instant Pot, and am constantly looking up new recipes on the internet. This cookbook provides a great foundation, as I have followed some recipes word-for-word, and modified/combined others with recipes from other sources.

I succumbed to the Instant Pot rage and selected this as a cookbook to get me excited to use it. I'll preface my review by saying that I don't love the Instant Pot because it's not at all instant. But this is a review of the book, not the pot itself. So here's what I don't like about the book: It assumes you have more than your basic instant pot. Many of the recipes require steamer baskets & special instant pot size bake pans. I just dropped a lot of money on the instant pot and I don't want to invest in more gadgets for it. When I think of "essential" recipes I don't think of oxtails. The recipes either seem to be things that I can easily make on my stovetop (rice or mac & cheese) or things that I don't count as an :essential" recipe like oxtails and sicilian style chard. There are ingredients I've never heard of or I assume my grocery store doesn't carry: sambal oelek? pomegranate molasses. Pasilla, sancho and guajillo chiles. I wish there were guidelines on time. Not how long it's on a particular setting - but how long it takes to get to pressure, cook and slow release. I know there are the charts at the back - but it wouldn't be too hard to give a rough time estimate in the recipe for the actual cook times and the time to get to pressure. I don't have a sense of how soon before dinner I need to start my meal prep! I feel like every recipe has sauté or additional steps before cooking. What I do like: It walks me through exactly what setting I need to use and whether it is a slow vs quick release. That's important for a newbie like me. I've found a few simple recipes we like such as the Irish beef stew. It's a gorgeous cookbook. The pages have nice weight and feel to them (not the thin glossy pages many other books have). I love the pictures that accompany each recipe. Absolutely beautiful. I'll keep trying the recipes. I'm not a huge instant pot fan, so I'm sure that is coloring my opinion of the book. I was wanting recipes that are more crockpot like (throw everything in and walk away). But I don't know how long I can even walk away for.

Quality made cookbook. Highly recommended!

Le ricette sono un po orientali, come tutte quelle per le pentole a pressione d’altronde. Comunque ottimo libro. Fatto benissimo e da grandi soddisfazioni in cucina. Super consigliato

J'ai essayé une dizaine de ces recettes déjà, et par rapport à la plupart de materiel sur le sujet, c'est clair que les recettes dans ce livre ont été testées. Non seulement cela, mais elles sont aussi très bonnes! N'hésitez pas...c'est une valeur sure si vous avez un Instant Pot (ou similaire.)

My order arrived at the earliest estimated delivery date. The book was more than I expected from the previously posted reviews. It was in immaculate condition and there were more photographs of the dished than I had expected. I particularly like information about must-have tools, the pantry items and the cooking charts. I have had my instant pot for a year and felt I was ready for more of a cookbook that the small one that came with my pot but I wish I had ordered it right away. It really is an essential book for new and not so new instant pot owners.

Great value. Some really lovely recipes. I would recommend if you have an instant pot.

Beautifully, well constructed book. Easy to use recipes. Look forward to the next one