Looking for a way to shorten your dinner prep? Try these 10 back-to-school Instant Pot ideas!
10 Favorite Back-to-School Instant Pot Meal Ideas
by Bethany Lotulelei
It is so hard to get dinner on the table in super busy seasons!
I find, that if I don’t have a plan in place, then I resort all too often to frozen pizzas or fast food. Everybody in my family needs to eat, multiple times a day (you too?!), and when we throw in extra activities, new schedules and our calendar gets full then it is even trickier to make several nourishing meals per day.
Enter: the Instant Pot!
Laura purchased her own Instant Pot a few years back (here’s her review!), and since then, she has provided so many wonderful recipes!
Why I Love the Instant Pot
I received an Instant Pot as a wedding present, and I am sad to say that it sat in our closet for years. It was a little intimidating: I’d heard that pressure cookers could be dangerous! My husband started using it to cook rice, and seeing it on my counter pushed me to finally figure it out for myself.
Once I realized how easy, and safe it was to use–I was kicking myself for not trying it sooner! I really thought it couldn’t take the place of my beloved crock pot, but I soon realized that there are some recipes that work so much better in the Instant Pot! It speeds everything up, and helps me get supper on the table on nights in which I would not have had time to throw together a full meal otherwise.
Did you know you can cook a whole chicken in the Instant Pot in a little over an hour? Amazing! Magical! Stupendous! I could go on and on.
There are still a few recipes I only make in my crock pot, but I’ve found that my Instant Pot has become a heavy lifter when it comes to my meal planning. I’ve even considered buying a second one.
My absolute favorite ways to use my Instant Pot, and cut back on dinner prep include: making ground beef ahead of time in bulk (it’s SO nice to have cooked meat ready to go for the week!), cooking a whole chicken in less than an hour, and making mashed potatoes (the Instant Pot makes mashed potatoes SO easily!).
Here are a few additional recipes that I have grown to love, and use often!
10 Favorite Back-to-School Instant Pot Meal Ideas
- Simple Creamy Chicken Soup
- Bacon Chicken Pasta
- Simple 10-Minute Mac and Cheese
- Simple One Dish Chicken Florentine
- Beef Roast
- Simple Creamy Pasta
- Chili Mac
- Simple Hashbrown Casserole
- Taco Pasta
- Simple Lasagna Casserole
A few extras:
- How to Cook 5 lbs of Frozen Hamburger Meat in 30 minutes
- Bone Broth
- Mashed Potatoes
- Stick-of-Butter Rice
What are your favorite Instant Pot recipes? I’d love to know! Share in the comments below.
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