These easy Instant Pot recipes will help you find a no-fuss dinner that your family will love! With 30 recipes to give you inspiration, we’re sure you’ll find a new, easy pressure cooker recipe to make for dinner.
When our days are full with work, appointments, school, and errands, sometimes making meals is the last thing on our mind. The Instant Pot was created for people like us!
Mostly hands-off cooking, the option to sear and pressure cook in one pot, in a fraction of the time of preparing it conventionally?
Yes, please!
What exactly are easy Instant Pot recipes?
Are you thinking to yourself, “aren’t all Instant Pot recipes easy”? Technically, yes, but some are much easier to make than others.
Here’s what easy means to us:
- Requiring less than 10 ingredients, not counting basic ingredients like water, salt and pepper.
- No multi-step preparation. In other words, you won’t need to turn off the pressure mid-cooking to add ingredients and then rebuild the pressure. You may need to add ingredients like thickeners in after the cook time, however.
Easy Instant Pot Dinners
As hard as I try to convince them otherwise, my family still insists on eating dinner every night.
For this reason, it’s important that we have a slew of easy pressure cooker dinner recipes on hand for those nights when things get a little crazy.
It seems like our kids are always involved in something — we went straight from skating to swimming to baseball and it doesn’t seem like we get a break from the chaos.
Once summer hits, we’ll still be running in different directions, just to different outings and events.
I hope you find some easy dinner ideas here that your family will love just as much as mine does (and that will save you a little sanity on those crazy weeknights)!
CHICKEN DINNERS
Creamy Italian Instant Pot Chicken Breasts
Super moist and made with a luscious creamy Italian sauce that is perfect over pasta!
Instant Pot BBQ Chicken, from The Recipe Rebel
Finger lickin’ good BBQ chicken, made quickly and easily in your pressure cooker. Everyone loves this chicken – it’s one of our favorite easy Instant pot recipes!
Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
This sweet and tangy Instant Pot chicken is perfect over rice or mashed potatoes, with an easy homemade honey garlic sauce!
Creamy Garlic Instant Pot Chicken Thighs
Tender and juicy Instant Pot chicken thighs are an easy weeknight dinner, but they’re elegant enough to make for a dinner party, too. Either way, they’re SO delicious!
Instant Pot Thai Chicken Curry
Loaded with flavor and even freezer friendly!
This shredded chicken is so moist and flavorful! It’s perfect on its own or in soups, pastas, sandwiches, wraps, which means it’s great for meal prepping a big batch at once!
Instant Pot Chicken Tacos (shredded chicken tacos)
Load up your pressure cooker with chicken breasts or thighs. Then, sit back and relax as it magically transform them into delicious shredded chicken tacos!
Easy Instant Pot Chicken Parmesan, from Skinnytaste
This quick and easy Chicken Parmesan is the answer to your weeknight dreams!! And since it’s made in the Instant Pot, it’s ready in minutes!
Instant Pot Chicken Alfredo Pasta
This Instant Pot Chicken Alfredo Pasta is an easy one pot meal made hands off in the pressure cooker! It’s so creamy, and the whole family loves it!
BEEF AND PORK DINNER RECIPES
Healthier Instant Pot Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
This Instant Pot Spaghetti recipe is made with real ingredients, extra veggies and whole grain pasta, yet it still comes together just as quickly!
Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin with Honey Balsamic Glaze
This pork tenderloin is juicy and flavorful every time!
This is the best Instant Pot Pot Roast! The gravy is unique but so flavorful!
Instant Pot Lasagna with Beef or Pork, from A Mind Full Mom
A classic lasagna recipe, scaled down to create a wholesome, delicious comfort food dinner in your Instant Pot.
Easy Instant Pot Baked Ziti Recipe
This easy Instant Pot Baked Ziti is a new twist on a classic favorite dish, made healthier with high fiber pasta, sneaky veggies, and extra lean ground beef.
Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli, from Pressure Cooking Today
This dish features tender, thin-sliced beef and broccoli in a rich sauce that is salty and sweet, with just a little heat from the red pepper flakes. It’s better than take-out!
Honey Balsamic Instant Pot Beef Stew recipe
Thanks to easy Instant Pot recipes like this one, you don’t have to wait all day for a pot of hearty beef stew.
Boneless Instant Pot Pork Chops with Bacon Apple Glaze
These are the easiest Instant Pot Pork Chops with the most amazing Bacon Apple Glaze! Tender and full of flavor!
Instant Pot Taco Meat from Frozen Ground Beef, from The Recipe Rebel
If cooking in a pressure cooker isn’t quick and easy enough, then make your taco meat from frozen ground beef. Now, THIS is easy!
INSTANT POT FISH and SEAFOOD
Instant Pot Asian Salmon (Soy and Gluten Free), from Garden in the Kitchen
Not only is this Instant Pot salmon recipe healthy, but it’s also unbelievably quick and easy to make. You can have this tasty fish dinner on the table in 15 minutes!
Instant Pot Fish and Vegetables, from The Typical Mom
Use this recipe to make healthy Instant Pot fish and vegetables together in your pressure cooker. They’re cooked separately but at the same time, so dinner will be ready in a flash.
Instant Pot Herbed Salmon, from Val’s Kitchen
All you need are 5 simple ingredients and your trusty Instant Pot to make this salmon for dinner. Easy Instant Pot recipes like this one belong on your “must make often” list!
Instant Pot Side Dishes and Soups
These cook so much more quickly than in the oven and turn out perfectly creamy and fluffy! Serve them simply or make a meal out of them with leftover shredded chicken or chili.
Instant Pot Mashed Cauliflower
Super creamy and flavorful, a low carb alternative to mashed potatoes.
Easy Instant Pot Potato Salad, from The Recipe Rebel
Creamy potato salad is perfect for picnics, potlucks, or just an easy side dish. Making it in an Instant Pot couldn’t be any simpler!
Garlic Herb Instant Pot Potatoes, from The Recipe Rebel
This easy Instant Pot recipe makes garlic herb potatoes that practically melt in your mouth. The perfect side dish with just about everything!
Instant Pot Cheddar Risotto with Sage, from The View From Great Island
Do you know that it only takes 6 minutes to make creamy Instant Pot risotto, and you don’t have to stir it? This is risotto perfection!
Pressure Cooker Broccoli Cheese Soup, from Pressure Cooking Today
This delicious Instant Pot Broccoli Cheese Soup has a 1-minute pressure cook time and a creamy texture with bites of broccoli and carrots!
Easy enough for a busy weeknight but fancy enough for special guests!
Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff Soup, from Creme de la Crumb
One of your favorite classic, comfort food dishes turned into a creamy, savory soup! This Instant Pot or Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff Soup is a must make all year round.
Instant Pot Vegetarian Lentil Chili
Chock full of good-for-you veggies and lentils, no one will miss the meat!
