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Fresh or Frozen Vegetable

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By Instant Pot Staff, June 28, 2009

When cooking vegetable, fresh or frozen, it’s recommended to use steaming to preserve vitamins and minerals to the maximum. Steaming also retains the nature look of the vegetable, adding aesthetic value to your dish.

When steaming vegetable, you need at least one cup of water (250ml), an ovenproof or steel bowl on a trivet. Due to short pressure keeping period, leaving the cooker naturally cooling down without using the steam release will add some extra cooking time to the food.

Please note that the cooking time is pressure keeping time on Instant Pot or other electric pressure cookers operating at the preset pressure level. Cooking times are approximate. Please use them as a guideline only.

The cooking time is for small or medium amount of food.  For large amount, please add more water and increase the time by 20~40%.

Fresh or Frozen Vegetable Pressure Cooking Timetable

Vegetable

Fresh, Cooking Time
(in Minutes)

Frozen, Cooking Time
(in Minutes)

Artichoke, whole, trimmed without leaves

9 – 11

11 – 13

Artichoke, hearts

4 – 5

5 – 6

Asparagus, whole or cut

1 – 2

2 – 3

Beans, green/yellow or wax, whole, trim ends and strings

1 – 2

2 – 3

Beets, small roots, whole

11 – 13

13 – 15

Beets, large roots, whole

20 – 25

25 – 30

Broccoli, flowerets

2 – 3

3 – 4

Broccoli, stalks

3 – 4

4 – 5

Brussel sprouts, whole

3 – 4

4 – 5

Cabbage, red, purple or green, shredded

2 – 3

3 – 4

Cabbage, red, purple or green, wedges

3 – 4

4 – 5

Carrots, sliced or shredded

1 – 2

2 – 3

Carrots, whole or chunked

2 – 3

3 – 4

Cauliflower flowerets

2 – 3

3 – 4

Celery, chunks

2 – 3

3 – 4

Collard

4 – 5

5 – 6

Corn, kernels

1 – 2

2 – 3

Corn, on the cob

3 – 4

4 – 5

Eggplant, slices or chunks

2 – 3

3 – 4

Endive

1 – 2

2 – 3

Escarole, chopped

1 – 2

2 – 3

Green beans, whole

2 – 3

3 – 4

Greens (beet greens, collards, kale, spinach, swiss chard, turnip greens), chopped

3 – 6

4 – 7

Leeks

2 – 4

3 – 5

Mixed vegetables

2 – 3

3 – 4

Okra

2 – 3

3 – 4

Onions, sliced

2 – 3

3 – 4

Parsnips, sliced

1 – 2

2 – 3

Parsnips, chunks

2 – 4

4 – 6

Peas, in the pod

1 – 2

2 – 3

Peas, green

1 – 2

2 – 3

Potatoes, in cubes

7 – 9

9 – 11

Potatoes, whole, baby

10 – 12

12 – 14

Potatoes, whole, large

12 – 15

15 – 19

Pumpkin, small slices or chunks

4 – 5

6 – 7

Pumpkin, large slices or chunks

8 – 10

10 – 14

Rutabaga, slices

3 – 5

4 – 6

Rutabaga, chunks

4 – 6

6 – 8

Spinach

1 – 2

3 – 4

Squash, acorn, slices or chunks

6 – 7

8 – 9

Squash, butternut,  slices or chunks

8 – 10

10 – 12

Sweet potato, in cubes

7 – 9

9 – 11

Sweet potato, whole, small

10 – 12

12 – 14

Sweet potato, whole, large

12 – 15

15 – 19

Sweet pepper, slices or chunks

1 – 3

2 – 4

Tomatoes, in quarters

2 – 3

4 – 5

Tomatoes, whole

3 – 5

5 – 7

Turnip, chunks

2 – 4

4 – 6

Yum, in cubes

7 – 9

9 – 11

Yum, whole, small

10 – 12

12 – 14

Yum, whole, large

12 – 15

15 – 19

Zucchini, slices or chunks

2 – 3

3 – 4

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Cooking Time

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By Instant Pot Staff, June 28, 2009

As with conventional cooking, cooking with Instant Pot programmable cooker is full of personal choices, creativity, a lot of science and experimentation. No two people would have exactly the same tastes, preferences of tenderness and texture of food. The cooking time chart provided in this recipe booklet is for reference purpose. The user is encouraged to experiment and find your own time setting for the best result to the user’s own liking.

There are other factors that may affect the cooking time. Different cuts of meat and different types of rice, for example, may require different cooking time to yield the same tenderness or texture.

The following pressure cooking timetables provide a general guideline on the length of pressure cooking time for various food.

When cooking frozen food, there is no need to defrost the food in the microwave first.  However frozen food will prolong the pre-heating time and cooking time by a few minutes depending on the amount of food.

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