Tag Archives: Instant Pot

Recipe: Pickled Eggs

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Burnt My Fingers

Pickled eggs are a good way to use the perfect hard-boiled eggs you make in the Instant Pot. If you don’t have your own recipe, please use ours. Peeled hard-boiled eggs are quite perishable, but once pickled these should last … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Instant Pot Hot and Sour Soup

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Burnt My Fingers

Yes, you can make Hot and Sour Soup in the Instant Pot that’s a pretty good facsimile of your favorite takeout Chinese. We started with this recipe from Jamie + Jacky and were initially disappointed but then we added lots … Continue reading →

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Perfect hardboiled eggs in the Instant Pot

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Burnt My Fingers

We tend to tune out a lot of the fan chatter about the Instant Pot, especially when folks start talking about how to cook something in the IP that has no business there—like prime rib!—or something that would be just … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Chicago-Style Beef for sandwiches

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Burnt My Fingers

Chicago-style beef for sandwiches is a big winner: rich, beefy, juicy and fall-apart tender. Drench it in jus, add some of our Chicago-style giardiniera and maybe a bit of provolone, and you’ve got just about the perfect sandwich. Ingredients: 3 … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Instant Pot Al Pastor

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Burnt My Fingers

Al Pastor pork is marinated in citrus juice and it’s our favorite taco meat next to lengua. In Mexico, the product is cooked on spits rotated next to an open flame so the meat carved off is crispy on the … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: PressureLuckCooking.com

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Burnt My Fingers

Pressureluckcooking.com has more ads and unnecessary in-progress photos than any other blog we’ve seen: when we couldn’t get one recipe to print out by itself there were 49 printer preview pages that preceded it. And yet there are three reasons … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Instant Pot Thai Roast Pork

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

This is the comforting, salty-sweet dish everybody loves, adapted to make Instant Pot Thai Roast Pork. (If you don’t have an Instant Pot you can slow-cook the pork in a crockpot or dutch oven.) It’s actually a bit mild for … Continue reading →

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Instant Pot jumps the shark with sous vide function

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

Can you do sous vide in the Instant Pot? Instant Pot, the company, is now making its own immersion circulator, with a design similar to the best-selling Anova. (Warning! Affiliate links!) You can purchase the giant Aura Pro Multicooker, whose … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: Indian Instant Pot Cookbook

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

[6/23. See important UPDATE at the end of this post. Please read before you cook from this book!] Our extended family includes a two-career couple with two small children and, as you might expect, they are very strapped for time. They … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Perfect Instant Pot Oatmeal

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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 … Continue reading →

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