19 Healthy Beginner Instant Pot Recipes (Quick & Easy Dinners!)
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Our Healthy Beginner Instant Pot Recipes are the perfect weeknight dinner ideas! You’ll love the simple step-by-step instructions, and your family will love how delicious these meals are! Plus, all of the recipes featured are made with whole, real food ingredients and super easy to make!
We designed this list of healthy recipes to be perfect for any new Instant Pot owner! So what are you waiting for? Let’s start cooking!
These Healthy Beginner Instant Pot Recipes are a great addition to your dinner needs because they’re actually quite simple to make. Using the Instant Pot is a total breeze that really does deliver stellar dishes and this is why it’s one of the most popular kitchen appliances that people love to use time and time again.
What we love most about these dishes is that they’re packed full of healthy foods that actually help to fuel bodies as well. Feeding our minds and bodies with nutrition is so important to be able to power through the day.
While we’re not recipe-wizards, we are in an amazing community of amazing cooks! Most of these recipes come from busy moms and have been family-approved! So get ready to dig in!
We also love these Collapsible Silicone Containers to make meal prep a breeze!
Why I Love an Instant Pot
- You make so many meals in under 30 minutes!
- We also love one-pot recipes, and there are so many pressure-cooker-friendly ideas out there!
- You can safely cook frozen meat in a pressure cooker!
- It saves us money because we’re not eating out as much.
- You can also use it to make shredded chicken, hard boiled eggs, oats, beans and lentils!
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19 Healthy Beginner Instant Pot Recipes
Our Healthy Beginner Instant Pot Recipes are the perfect weeknight dinner ideas! You'll love the simple step-by-step instructions, and your family will love how delicious these meals are! Plus, all of the recipes featured are made with whole, real food ingredients and super easy to make!
We designed this list of healthy recipes to be perfect for any new Instant Pot owner! So what are you waiting for? Let's start cooking!
These Carolina-Style Instant Pot Shredded BBQ Chicken Sandwiches are so good!
Making a perfect hard boiled egg is an essential cooking technique that many home cooks struggle with. Come discover how to make easy Instant Pot Hard Boiled eggs. This recipe will work if you’re making 1 or 75 hard boiled eggs!
This Instant Pot Refried Beans recipe is so creamy, delicious, and healthy! It serves 6, makes 3 cups of beans, and costs $3.09 to make. That’s just 52¢ per serving!
Balsamic pork tenderloin is an easy dish that cooks in 7 minutes with a sweet sauce kids and adults both love.
Check out this Instant Pot Vegan White Bean Kale Soup !
This Instant Pot apple sauce / apple butter recipe does not require peeling, has no added sugar and can be made in under 30 minutes! You have an amazing spread for waffles, bagels, muffins, pancakes. So skip the store-bought stuff and make your own sweet, tart butter in just a few easy steps.
After the holidays, most of us are craving healthier options. Why not try a steamed broccoli recipe? Lightly seasoned broccoli made in less than 15-minutes.
Our Instant Pot brown rice recipe uses two ingredients to create wholesome brown rice in a pressure cooker using a few simple steps.
Making Carrot Halwa (Pudding) in the instant pot is quick and just takes about 15 minutes.
Easy peasy and flavourful roasted garlic cauliflower mash- all in your instantpot!
Cooked-all-day-flavor in a short time in the IP, making this healthy and better for you Italian Chicken Stew a dinner winner!
It's simple to make the perfect vegan Instant Pot red beans at home, so you'll want to cook them regularly. You'll get great results in less than an hour with no soaking required.
South Indian style vegan and gluten-free cabbage stir-fry made with shredded cabbage, coconut and few basic spices. Simple and easy recipe that gets ready in less than 15 minutes in Instant Pot and goes well with flatbread or as a side with rice and curry.
Green beans cooked in your Instant Pot are an extremely easy and delicious vegetable side. Once you add a little garlic and parmesan cheese, the entire family will love them!
This is such a simple recipe for Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup.
Instant Pot Egg Bites are velvety smooth, light and creamy. Feta cheese, oregano and red pepper give these Starbucks inspired Egg Bites a Greek flair. Pressure Cooker Egg Bites are keto and low carb.
Looking for a filling yet quick meal idea for the family? This savory instant pot ham recipe with potatoes and carrots is an easy and delicious weeknight meal idea.
This Instant Pot Pot Roast makes the most tender meat and is loaded with potatoes, carrots with the most perfect gravy ever. With a quick 10 minute prep, you will have a deliciously comforting dinner in no time.
Craving fried rice, but don’t have leftover cold rice? No worries, you can still enjoy fluffy flavorful fried rice in less than 30 minutes from start to finish. Bring out your Instant Pot! I know I preach that best fried rice starts with cold leftover rice. Well, it turns out you can make fluffy fried rice in an Instant Pot and it’s a game-changer!
We also have a roundup of our favorite Instant Pot Weight Watchers Recipes and Keto Recipes using an Instant Pot!
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Also – don’t forget – we have: healthy breakfasts, lunches, snacks and desserts all ready for you to try!
Our Favorite Lunch Packing Hacks
We know meal prepping takes time and effort!
Here are a few of our favorite ways to carry our meals on the go!
- Collapsible Silicone Containers
- LunchBots Thermos
- Stasher Bags (like a resealable ziplock)
- Everest Cooler Lunchbox
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Hi ladies! These all look awesome are will be a huge help to anyone just starting out with an Instant Pot. Thanks so much for including us! Stay healthy and Happy Easter! :)