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By Instant Pot Staff, February 5, 2013

Submitted by Kay A.

Fast (frozen to ready to serve in 35 minutes) Delicious Healthy

If you divide the chicken to make four servings, the chicken alone will be 215 calories a serving.

Ingredients

• 1 pound frozen chicken breasts

• 1/3 cup water

BBQ Sauce

• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 3/4 teaspoon McCormick’s Barbeque Seasoning (or any brand you like) • Dash red pepper flakes • 1/4 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning • 2 teaspoons honey

Salad fixings

• Lettuces, spinach, tomatoes, pine nuts, walnuts, flax seeds, shredded cheeses, etc.
• Salad dressing of your choice (yogurt based dressings are especially delicious)

Directions

Spray the bottom of the Instant Pot with nonstick spray. Place the frozen chicken breasts and 1/3 cup of water in the pot and put the lid on. Press  the steam button and set the time to eight minutes. (The pot will come to pressure in about eight minutes and then cook for eight minutes.)

While the breasts are thawing in the Instant Pot

1. Prepare your salad fixings and place them in into serving bowls.
2. Mix together in a separate bowl the BBQ sauce (ketchup, BBQ seasoning, red pepper flakes, Italian seasoning and honey.) 3. Taste the BBQ sauce and adjust it to make sure it is the way your family prefers. We are a fairly low sugar family, so you may want more honey.

When the Instant Pot beeps that it is finished, throw a dish towel over the top and do a quick pressure release. Remove the top. With the chicken still in the pot, use a large fork and long sharp knife to slice the chicken into 1/2 inch strips being careful to not touch the sides of the hot pot. The chicken will be raw in the middle but easily sliceable. Pour the BBQ sauce over the chicken and mix with a heat safe spoon. At this point, it looks like chicken in a watery tomato soup.

Press the sauté button and set the time for 18 minutes, which will likely be too much time. This will come to a good boil, but will not splatter on your kitchen because the Instant Pot insert is so deep. For the first 10 minutes you can work on other things in the kitchen and just visit the pot, stir a little, turn chicken over, etc., as you monitor the progress. However, as the sauce thickens, it is important that you stay with the pot and monitor the sauce. So, for the last five minutes, you move the chicken around in the pot a little while the sauce thickens and sticks to the chicken. When almost all of the sauce has stuck to the chicken, remove the chicken to a serving tray. Turn the pot off. IMMEDIATELY pour 2-3 cups of water into the Instant Pot to keep the remaining sauce reside from sticking and burning to the pot.

Lay the chicken on top of the salads and serve. It is so good.

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By Instant Pot Staff, November 6, 2012

Submitted by Ezzie B.

Imagine sitting on a gently rocking boat under a warm sun in southern Mexico.  Your hostess brings out a big platter loaded with lamb slow cooked in a long simmered chili sauce, surrounded by small dishes of chopped cilantro, cut limes, refried beans, rice, and a stack of fresh warm corn tortillas.  Shots of tequila are passed around.  Everyone gives a  rousing cheer of “Salud!”  Then all dig in!  This was our introduction to one of our favorite Mexican dishes.

Making the chili sauce is a long process but I’ve found a great quick substitute…Old El Paso enchilada sauce!  You can buy it in mild to hot versions.  The Instant Pot on meat setting saves hours of slow cooking the lamb.

Barbacoa de Cordero (Lamb BBQ Mexican style)

Ingredients:

• 3 # lamb shoulder
• 1 Spanish onion
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 19 oz can Old El Paso Enchilada sauce
• 2 Tbsp. oil
• Salt to taste

For serving:

• Cilantro, chopped without the stems
• Corn tortillas (3-4 per person)
• Limes cut into 8ths
• Black beans or refried beans
• Chipotle style rice (see my recipe for it on the Instant Pot recipe site)

Instructions:

• Marinate lamb overnight in Old El Paso Enchilada sauce (mild, medium or hot).
• Set Instant Pot to sauté setting and put in oil.  Let the oil heat up for a minute or two.  Put in the onions and cook until soft, add garlic and cook for just a minute being careful not to burn.
• Add the lamb and marinade.  Let the marinade heat up and reach a boil.
• Put Instant Pot on stew and pressure cook for 35- 45 min.  I did mine for 45 minutes because I like to pull it into shreads for the tacos.  Note: If you cube the lamb it will cook in about 20 minutes.  Let the Instant Pot return to normal by itself.
• Meanwhile heat the beans, cut the limes, put the hot rice into a serving bowl.
• Shred the cooked lamb with two forks (as you would for pulled pork) and put in a serving bowl.  Ladle generous amount of sauce over it.  Heat up 3-4 corn tortillas per person.  I put mine on a saucer, then put another saucer over them and microwave for approximately 2 minutes (if serving 3-4 people) at 70%, or until the tortillas are all warm.
• To serve: spoon the lamb mixture onto a soft warm corn tortilla, sprinkle on cilantro, then squeeze on lime juice.  Or you can do like my husband does: spoon rice and beans onto the warm corn tortilla, sprinkle on cilantro, add lamb, and squeeze lime juice over all of it.  Delicioso!

My heartfelt thanks to our friend and fellow cruiser, Blanc, a for serving this wonderful dish to us and sharing her recipe!

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By Instant Pot Staff, March 29, 2012

Submitted by Pamie F.

I have more photos and a how-to video at my Website at: http://tinyurl.com/c6cznw3

Ingredients

• 2 – tbls. – Olive Oil – Divided
• 1 – med Onion, (minced)
• 3 – cloves of Garlic (minced)
• 1- Red Pepper (finely chopped or you may use Green Pepper)
• 1 – 15oz canned diced Tomatoes
• 1 tsp. – Sea Salt (or Himalayan)
• 1/2 tsp. – freshly ground Black Pepper
• 1 tsp. – Parsley (fresh or dried)
• 1 tsp. – Paprika
• Pinch of Cayenne Pepper
• (NOTE: Save a Pinch of Salt, Pepper, Parsley, Paprika and Cayenne to season the Bread cubes.)
• 1 1/2 cp – whole grain Bread (Cubed)
• 2 lbs – ground Turkey
• 1/2 cp – dry Red Wine
• 2 – Eggs
• 3 1/2 tbls. – Sour Cream or Creme Fraiche
• 1 1/2 tbls. – Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbls. – Soy Sauce
• 3 tbls. – Ketchup
• 3 tbls. – favorite BBQ Sauce
• 1 cp – crushed Pineapple (drained)

Directions:

• In a skillet, put in 1-tbls. Olive Oil and add Garlic, Red Pepper and Onions.
• Sauté until Onions are almost transparent.
• Add your chopped Tomatoes and cook down until almost all of the fluid has been cooked out of it.
  Set aside to cool.
• Next – in a skillet add 1-tbls of Olive Oil and the Bread cubes and a pinch of the Seasonings you saved back: (Salt, Pepper, Parsley, Paprika and Cayenne) to the Olive Oil. Sauté until the Bread Cubes are well toasted.
• In a mixing bowl add your ground Turkey, Eggs,Sour Cream, Worcestershire and Soy Sauces. Mix well.
• Add your cooled Seasoned mixture to the Turkey mixture.
• Add your loaf into your ceramic or glass dish.
  You may use a loaf pan that will fits inside your Instant Pot.
• Top with the mixture of Ketchup and BBQ Sauce *Sprinkle Pineapple over top the sauces.
• Foil the top of your Turkey Meatloaf to seal it and keep it moist.
• Add 2 cups of water to the inside pan in your Instant Pot.
• Set in your Trivet.
• Add in your Turkey Meatloaf atop the Trivet.
• Set your Instant Pot to the “Meat” setting.
• Once done, let the the Instant Pot cool down on it’s own.
  This will help set up the Meatloaf. Note: DO NOT cut it until it’s cooled at least ten minutes.

• Slice the Meatloaf and ENJOY!

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By Instant Pot Staff, March 27, 2012

Submitted by Pamie F.

PULLED BBQ BEEF

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds – Beef of choice
• 2 cps – Water
• 4 cps – Finely shredded Cabbage (the secret ingredient and you’ll never know it’s in there.)
• 1/2 cp – Of your favorite BBQ Sauce
• 1 cp – Ketchup
• 1/3 cp – Worecestershire Sauce
• 1 tbls – Horse Radish
• 1 tbls – mustard

Instructions:

1. Add and stir in ingredients to your Instant Pot and set it on the “Meat” setting. (35 minutes)
2. Once done, let set until steam subsides and then take off the lid.
3. Pull out the Beef and fork shred it. Return it to the sauce and simmer until it cooks down. Do this on the “Saute” setting.

I make a steamed Bread in my Instant Pot in coffee cans. I mount the Pulled BBQ Beef atop the bread along with Swiss or Cheddar Cheeses and grilled caramelized Sweet Vidalia Onions or fried Onion Ring.

Enjoy!

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By Instant Pot Staff, February 16, 2012

This is a recipe submitted by Sina.

got my instant pot today. i just made my first food in it and i’m impressed!!!! i have in 20 minutes tender pork back ribs( after they were finished i put them for 5-10 minutes under the broiler so they got a nice colour!) they taste amazing.

I ALREADY LOVE MY INSTANT POT. falling of the bone ribs after 20 minutes in the instant pot. wow.

i seasoned them with a rib rub and browned them on the “browning” setting first. took them out…. added 1 can of root beer. added the steam rack in the pot,brushed selfmade bbq sauce on the rib pieces,arranged the pork back ribs on the steam rack. closed the lid, used meat setting for 20 minutes. after pressure was gone and all was finished i took the ribs out(very tender!!!!) and just brushed some bbq sauce on them again and put them for 5-10 minutes under a broiler(oven). that’s it. awesome and tender fall of the bone ribs in 30 minutes with the help of the instant pot! thanks for an amazing product.

(shared it on facebook as well)more to come on facebook for sure.

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By Instant Pot Staff, October 29, 2009

This finger licking food is everybody favor but it takes time to cook. It usually takes hours in the oven to have nice soft and juice ribs. With Instant Pot Programmable Pressure cooker, it is matter of minutes.

Prepare Time: 30 minutes

Cooking Time: Around 35 minutes with Instant Pot Programmable Pressure cooker

Ingredients: 4 servings

• 2 racks of pork ribs
• 2 cup of your favor BBQ sauce
• 1 cup of water
• 2 red onions peeled and cut in half
• 4 carrots peeled and cut in desired size

Cooking:  There are two parts – Pre-Meal and Ready for Meal.

• Pre-Meal

Cut ribs into half and place them into Instant Pot Programmable Pressure Cooker. If frozen, no need to defrost. Add a cup of BBQ sauce and a cup of water in the cook pot. Close the lid. Then press  Meat button and set  +  to Longer.  Let it cook. Once it is done and cool down. Open the lid and ensure the ribs are soaked in the sauce. Close the lid and let it sit for a few hours.

• Ready for Meal

Take the ribs out and place onions and carrots in the Instant Pot Programmable Pressure Cooker with existing sauce. Close the lid and Press Manual button and set to 2 minutes. Then BBQ the ribs with BBQ sauce.