Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 500 Everyday Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users. Try Easy and Healthy Instant Pot Recipes.

Full Disclosure: this is the first cookbook I have ever reviewed. I don’t consider myself a cook, but rather one who so far has stayed the hand of starvation with things that do not habitually make me sick.With that understood, I ventured forth. Cookbooks for me are what I grab when I am trying to cook for other people and purchase all the ingredients for the dish. Alternatively, I find myself grabbing a cookbook to see if there is a recipe for the limp parsnip, left-over chicken, snow peas frozen in the last decade and the potatoes which are looking at me uncertainly from a corner, amounting to all the food in the house, and wondering if I am going to go hungry.I like to think I am practical, perhaps even prosaic about cook books.The real point of this book is that it stands as a companion work for the “Instant Pot Cooker,” a device combining a saute pan, stew pot, slow cooker and pressure cooker all in one. Where has this been all my life? I was convicted that I could hardly do the book justice if I did not get the “Instant Pot” and did so, getting the Tayama TMC-60XL 6 quart model, the cheapest one I could find. (This is just a book review, I am trying not to make big personal decisions at this point in my life.)Now another thing you have to know is that I grew up inculcated with a fear of pressure cookers. The big pot was reserved for the seasonal canning my mother did (starting by sending her children out into the wilds of suburban Philadelphia to capture the wily wild blackberries, neighbor's cherries, and friend's peaches). My brother and I literally had skin in these endeavors. We were shooed out of the kitchen for the duration of a pressure cookers operation. I have never trusted them since. Technology has, as it should, sublimated by fears.I tried several of the recipes. First and most importantly, the book is well organized, critical to my way of cooking. I can go from ingredients to recipe and recipe to ingredients in a trice. The book is extensive with five hundred recipes to experiment with. I chose Garlic Lamb Shanks with Red wine. Growing up, lamb shanks frequently emerged from my British-Canadian mother’s kitchen. She was against wine on principle and garlic by inexperience. I figured if it didn’t turn out well I could still drink the rest of the wine. The recipe was straightforward and with no surprises. Just what I like.Moreover, it was delicious, tender, with well-balanced seasonings and I overate. That points to my only reservation: how does one change the settings based on changing the portioning?In summary, as well as my diet can abide, I am working my way through the recipes at least two a day. Highly Recommend both the cooker and the book. Well done! (pun intended)

I liked the easy to read recipes with easy to find ingredients and I can usually pronounce them too! And the roast beef is the best I’ve cooked ever !!! Just like mom used to make. I don’t generally use the sauté just use pan on stove for that part. I do recommend you steam clean instant pot with hot water and vinegar after each use, otherwise each thing tastes like last dish you cooked in it! Would recommend this book.

I liked the variety of dishes, but at the same time a lot of them seemed to call for things that are only really available if you lived in a really big city. If you live in a small town/village pretty far from a city like I do, you end up looking for substitutes online and hoping they'll still work in the recipe. Plus the long drive special trips to get the finicky things that don't keep well/can't be frozen.Occasionally there are sentences that can be a little confusing. (Ex - pg. 205 Harvest Soup - 10 cups packaged vegetables of your choice.) Frozen mixed? Fresh and chopped? I'm guessing not canned. Does that affect cook time, the difference between the previous two?Positive note, I have found a couple of new recipes that the family really likes, using mostly things we'd already have. So, yay there!Now I admit the first two points can be seen as nitpicks, and overall I like the book. But having to repeatedly look up substitutions before deciding if I can risk buying for/cooking a recipe is a bit of a mental energy slog. Overall I would recommend if you live in a city with well stocked grocers, that aren't too far away. Or you don't mind a drive.

This is by far the best cookbook I think I own! Everything is so easy and so good!!Recipes are easy to follw and include only ingredients most pantries will have on hand.The book is set up very logically. Having the table of contents organized by main ingredient (grains, rice, beef, pork, turkey, egg, fish, potato etc.) makes it easy to see what options are available based on what the reader has on hand.There are many vegetarian recipes too!!! I like it.The book has over 500 recipes! Enough to keep most cooks busy and experimenting for ages. One of the things I really liked about this book was how many variations there were and how easily the recipes could be altered and mixed up for completely different presentations.I had no idea my IP was so versatile and had only cooked pork and chicken in it previously. When reviewing the book, I've tried at least 9 recipes: cinnamon steel cut oats, polenta with honey and pine nuts, herb turkey breast, lamb curry, shrimp curry, seafood paella, easy beef stew, ham and egg casserole, ratatouille. All dishes came out beatifully cooked and moist.

Look at this book! A gift for me :) ! I've purchased or borrowed at least half dozen instant pot cookbooks. Had I known earlier what I know now I would have only needed one. This book goes the extra mile of explaining the settings on the instant pot and what each does. This means I am much more confident using the pot for foods I may not have a recipe for. She also includes recipes for each type of food you could need it for. So rather than having six recipes for, say, pot roast, each using a slightly different seasoning, she has a basic recipe for each cut of meat that might require a slightly different technique.I first purchased the kindle edition, but realized that this is a book I would use frequently and purchased the paperback. I would recommend this book for anyone purchasing an Instant Pot and will probably get some for gifts when Christmas gets here. Lovely book! I really like to read it! Nice one! Well done

I was a little disappointed with some of the recipes. Think I would buy other author's books from now on.

この本には写真やイラストが一切ありません、レシピは良いかもしれませんが、出来上がりの状態がわからないので、私には向いていませんでした。

Some great recipes that suit our Australian cooking

Would have liked pictures of finished goods but all in all good recipes and easy to read.

I love the straight forward directions. It immediately gave me the feeling "I can do this".