The Modern Multi-cooker Cookbook: 101 Recipes for your Instant Pot®

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Madhur Jaffrey likes getting technical—for example, cooking chili powder, paprika, turmeric, garlic, ginger, and other spices together with a bit of water on low pressure to get the flavors to marry. Your AROMA® multicooker offers the perfect solution and the 5 Plus 5 recipe book is packed with answers to this nightly dilemma.

Be sure to read our other cookbook recommendations , as well as our gift guide for home chefs and our reviews of multicookers and other smart kitchen gadgets . A lot of the ones I’ve found online seem to have issues with conversions, I guess as mostly American) , so a recommendation of a good one would be fab! The pressure cooker is a fantastic way to hard-boil eggs, rendering them surprisingly easy to peel, and my favorite dish in the book is her Hyderabadi hard-boiled eggs in a garlicky red sauce with tamarind, mustard seeds, curry leaves, fenugreek, and nigella, all perfect over that exemplary rice.Pressure-cooker rice can be a revelation, too, and she gets specific with her basmati, combining the Instant Pot's rice setting with 10 minutes of “keep warm” time before releasing the pressure. The Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook" is our top pick due to its wide variety of recipes and the helpful tips included at the end of each recipe.

Whether you're new to pressure cooking or an old pro, you can rest easy knowing its recipes are rock solid. The recipes have an average prep time of just 10 to 15 minutes and keep ingredient lists as short as possible. If you want a practical cookbook brimming with options that you’ll explore for years to come, try aiming for a cookbook that has over 100 recipes in it. Several of the cheesecakes, such as the vanilla pumpkin with maple glaze cheesecake and the strawberry swirl cheesecake, were standouts among many reviewers. I would like make a couple of suggestions to improve the usefulness, especially for people like me who are learning to drive it.

All Instant Pots come with preset functions that are easy to adjust in regard to the specific dish being prepared. The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook for Two" has recipe ideas that cover any meal you may want to make, from snacks to dinners, and, as many reviewers highlighted, it provides nutrition facts, prep time, and cooking time at the start of each recipe, so you know what you’re in for.

One source Julia trusts for sous vide recipes in particular is America's Test Kitchen: "The times and temperatures that you need to sous vide perfectly need to be precise, and [they're] one of the few sources I trust to test out all my favorite recipes," she says. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Sticking this book in among the multicooker books isn't as subversive as it sounds; intrepid pressure-cooker people can figure out how to adapt many of these recipes to a multicooker. Some highlights include acorn squash with brown sugar, shrimp jambalaya, cheesy-stuffed Alfredo chicken, and honey-cinnamon carrots. It can saute vegetables in five minutes and cook a whole chicken in 20 so is it any wonder that the Instant Pot has taken the online community by a storm!

Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Recipes are easy to follow and have enticing pictures which actually make you want to try the recipe - just so many to choose from. It may be hard to compete with your local takeout spot, but this cookbook makes it’s easy to create family-friendly Indian meals from scratch.