Perfect Instant Pot Oatmeal
My sister wanted to do a recipe that would help her get familiar with her Instant Pot, and this Perfect Instant Pot Oatmeal fits the bill. Perfect because it is creamy, filling and just sweet enough with only 1 T brown sugar for 4 servings. Adapted from The Instant Pot Cookbook.
Ingredients:
1 c steel-cut oats
3 T butter
2 1/2 cups water or a mixture of water and milk (don’t use all milk or it will curdle)
1 large apple, peeled, cored and chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
1 T brown sugar (light or dark)
1 t powdered cinnamon
1/4 t Kosher salt
Method: Melt the butter using the sauté setting and stir in oats. Sauté 2 minutes, stirring frequently. (Our pot took several minutes to get up to temperature and turned itself off while sautéeing; if that happens, just turn it back on.) Mix in all other ingredients and stir to combine. Pressure cook 7 minutes on high with natural release; release remaining pressure after 10 minutes. Serve hot, or refrigerate and re-heat in microwave for serving the next day.
This simple and delicious recipe demonstrates several Instant Pot functions:
>Use of Sauté function to melt butter and toast oatmeal; you could do this in a skillet but you’d have 1 more pot to clean.
>Using controls to fine tune cooking time, heat and method. The cookbook tells you to use “Manual” setting but this has been replaced on newer pots with “Pressure Cook”.
>Technique for sealing the lid, turning the pressure valve to seal, then releasing carefully, using a wooden spoon, at the appropriate time. (We had a problem initially because the pot would not start pressure cooking; turned out it was not fully sealed).
