Busy nights don’t stand a chance against these quick, easy, and flavor-packed instant pot meals. From creamy pastas and zesty Mexican bowls to savory Asian-inspired fried rice and hearty vegetarian favorites, every recipe is designed for minimal effort and maximum taste. Think one-pot meatless meals, and comforting classics with easy clean-up and zero fuss. Whether you're craving Italian, looking to meal prep, or just need a no-fail dinner fast—these instant pot recipes deliver every time.
Meatless Baked Ziti
This Meatless Baked Ziti in Instant Pot is the perfect easy weeknight dinner—creamy, cheesy, and absolutely delicious! Best of all, it’s ready in just 30 minutes!
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Instant Pot Shrimp Fried Rice
This Instant Pot Shrimp Fried Rice is a quick, easy, and flavorful one-pot meal—no leftover rice needed. Everything cooks together in the Instapot, making it a complete meal in just 30 minutes!
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Instant Pot Alfredo
Instant Pot Alfredo Pasta comes together with just 5 ingredients! Creamy, rich, and indulgent, this easy recipe is ready in just 30 minutes. You’ll have a restaurant-quality, luscious pasta dinner with minimal effort!
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Instant Pot BBQ Chicken
Easy Instant Pot BBQ Chicken is juicy, tender, and so tasty! Perfect for sandwiches, nachos, quesadillas, bowls or meal prep for the week. Use your favorite BBQ sauce!
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Instant Pot Tomato Soup
This Instant Pot Tomato Soup is thick, luxuriously creamy, and one of the best-tasting tomato soups you'll make! it’s rich and luscious, and your family will be begging for seconds!
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Lighter Instant Pot Pasta
This Instant Pot Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce is without the guilt! I swap heavy cream for coconut milk to create a rich, luxurious pink sauce that’s totally indulgent—but secretly lighter. It’s so delicious, you’d never guess it’s a healthier twist!
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Instant Pot Chicken Shawarma
Make Instant Pot chicken shawarma at home using the best marinade made with pantry spices. The chicken thighs cook up juicy, tender, and packed with flavor. Perfect for wraps, bowls, salads, or served with rice, all topped with a mouthwatering garlic yogurt sauce.
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Instant Pot Ground Chicken Pasta
This Instant Pot Ground Chicken Pasta is a simple, 30-minute dinner that's perfect for busy weeknights. Penne pasta and ground chicken are cooked together using jarred sauce, for an effortless meal. No stock!
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Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup
Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup is thick and luxuriously creamy without any cream. Made with cauliflower and carrot, this vibrant Thai curried soup is both healthy and packed with flavor. It’s ready in just 30 minutes—an easy and delicious way to enjoy your veggies!
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Beet and Chickpeas Curry
This Beet Curry with chickpeas tastes so good that it will leave you amazed and craving more. It is pretty in pink, healthy and made in the instant pot in about 30 minutes.
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Cheesy Mexican Chicken and Rice
One pot Mexican Chicken and Rice is the perfect weeknight meal that’s bursting with flavor and ready in under 30 minutes. The rice soaks up all the chicken juices as it cooks, making every bite tasty!
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5 Ingredient Pesto Pasta
This Instant Pot Pesto Pasta is made using only 5 ingredients but is shockingly flavorful and satisfying. Simply combine everything in the instant pot and cook, for a quick 20-minute dinner.
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Luscious Shrimp Pasta
This Instant Pot Shrimp Pasta is a reader favorite! Shrimp and penne pasta are cooked in a luxurious tomato cream sauce. Ready in under 30 minutes, it's so good!
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Kale Dal
This Kale Dal is packed with Kale! It is full of flavor, cozy, nourishing and immensely satisfying. It is a fantastic way to incorporate a lot of kale; even kale haters won't mind eating it. Swap kale for spinach or make it on the stovetop.
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Deconstructed Sushi Bowls
Deconstructed Sushi Bowls are a fast and easy way to enjoy all the delicious flavors and textures of sushi without the hassle of making rolls. Get your sushi fix along with a irresistible sushi bowl sauce, without spending a fortune!
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Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Instant Pot Spaghetti Aglio E Olio is one of the simplest pasta recipes you'll make but its shockingly flavorful and satisfying! With just 7 basic ingredients, this instant pot pasta is ready in just 20 minutes. There's no stock or broth!
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Instant Pot Chicken Pasta
This Instant Pot Chicken Pasta is a reader favorite! All the flavors of chicken parmesan are combined with pasta, to make the easiest instant pot meal, that is ready in under 30 minutes. So so good!
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Garlic Butter Shrimp and Rice
This Garlic Butter Shrimp and Rice recipe is buttery, garlicky rice soaking up shrimp flavors because it's all cooked in the one pot - Instant pot or stovetop! It's so good you will want to eat it straight out of the pot!
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Penne alla Vodka
This Instant Pot Penne alla Vodka is super easy and ready in 20 minutes. Toss in some cubed chicken or shrimp for added protein. It's thick, creamy and luxurious!
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Pesto Rice
This pesto rice with chicken is a simple one pot meal with flavorful rice, chicken and green beans all together in an instant pot (stovetop and rice cooker instructions included), and is ready in about 20 minutes.
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Thai Chicken Fried Rice
This restaurant style Instant pot Thai chicken fried rice recipe is the absolute best. It's quick and easily made in instant pot when you don't have any leftover rice and delicious plain with wedges of tomato and cucumber slices.
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Chicken Fried Rice
Chinese take-out right in your Instant pot. Packed with chunks of tender chicken, scrambled eggs, carrots and peas, this Instant pot chicken fried rice is easier and healthier. No more take-outs!
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