Instant Pot Cooking Times 

What is the Instant Pot?

• 7 appliances in 1: pressure cooker, sauté pan, steamer, slow cooker, rice cooker, food warmer, and yogurt maker.
• 6 Quart is the perfect size for feeding up to 6 people (There’s also 3 qt., 8 qt. & 10 qt. models, too!)
• The easy-seal lid automatically seals your Instant Pot for pressure cooking and releases steam with a simple, safe push of the quick-release button.
• 10+ safety features and timed cooking programs let you “set it and forget it,” freeing you to do other things while the Duo Nova cooks your dinner safely and quickly, with minimal mess and easy cleanup.
• One-touch Smart Program settings let you start cooking instantly. Just press a button for soup, broth, beans, chili, poultry, slow cooking, sautéing, rice, multigrain, porridge, steaming, yogurt, pressure cooking, or keeping warm.

What am I talking about?

The revolutionary kitchen appliance, Instant Pot that answers the age-old question with no angst and lots of ease – “What’s for dinner tonight?”

Cooking times

Cooking times are so rarely talked about in the meal planning niche, yet there’s so much angst at dinner time around how long it will take to cook a delicious meal!

Shorter cooking times (without compromising the mouth-watering flavors) are among the biggest benefits of Instant Pot cooking.

But somewhere along the way, we lost sight of sharing how easy Instant Pot cooking is. How you can make magical meals in minutes – without the pre-steps of meal planning and no meal freezing even needed!

I wish everyone knew how easy Instant Pot cooking is for busy households – one-pot… straight to plate!

If you’re serious about saving time, money and eating well with high-quality meals that don’t require stewing over a hot pot all day. Stay ’til the end of this post to print out my Instant Pot Cooking Times chart.

Pro tip: On Instant Pot pressure cooker models Duo Nova and beyond – the steam release (Instant Pot valve) is automatically set to the sealing position when the lid is closed. So you don’t have to worry about whether the valve should be up or down (sweet!)

How to cook with Instant Pot cooking times

Download and print my helpful Instant Pot cooking times chart to always know how long to let meats, seafood, vegetables, eggs, rice, grains, and beans pressure cook inside the pot.

Remember that these suggested cooking times (with guides for thawed and frozen foods) are separate from any natural or manual quick-release times after the pressure cooking time has finished.

Each recipe here at The Soul Food Pot will always include the suggested pressure release time for your ease in planning.

* This cooking times chart is a guide and not an absolute for Instant Pot cooking, as appliance models may slightly vary. 

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