I was excited to be approved to read this book via netgalley because I don't own a pressure cooker, but have often wondered about adding it to my kitchen. Through reading this book, I was able to determine that I could possibly put off a pressure cooker purchase for now as I can do these recipes in a different way although they may take more time, but I can accomplish them in other means.

This cookbook was great in laying out all the things and giving many uses for this small appliance. I think this would be a great purchase when giving the pressure cooker as a gift to someone.

This is a fairly well done cookbook for those who eat a standard American diet. There are lots of meat dishes and it's broken down by meals (one chapter is for vegetarian dishes). Many of these recipes will be rather complicated for the busy home cook who purchased an Instant Pot to save time and make speedy dinners, and some may not care for the rather exotic feel of a lot of the dishes or the ingredient lists. Many require multiple steps besides just putting ingredients in an IP and walking away. For instance, to make the caramelized onion dip (one of the few dishes that appealed to me), you must first saute the onions, then pressure cook them, then cool them, then mix them with the other ingredients. Other recipes require moving ingredients to the broiler and so on. Lots of color photos are provided.

This cookbook brought me from the stone age (my crock pot) to the present-day (Instant Pot pressure cooking). I still haven't tried the most advanced recipes yet, but very happy with how all the ones I tried turned out!

Fantastic recipes that worked brilliantly and tasted amazing! Great for beginners or for anyone who's wanting some inspiration. Very handy little book.

I enjoyed some of the recipes in the book, but I did find that some asked for things that are not easily obtained in my small town grocery store. The recipes themselves were relatively straightforward and has a good selection to choose from. I also really appreciated the tables at the back of the book for cooking times! I did find that some of the recipes were a bit bland but not everyone likes a lot of spice so we just adjust to our tastes.

A good overview for a beginning Instant Pot user. I enjoyed the fact it is an Instant Pot authorized cookbook.

Well, unless we're expected to actually read a Cook Book fully linearly and have no interest in jumping to sections, then this book is completely frustrating to work through. Anyone who has flipped through a cook book knows that either you jump to a section (meat! soup! appetizers!) that are of an interest, or a specific recipe from the table of contents. There is no way to do that with this book, unless one makes their own bookmarks, having first linearly perused the book. None of the table of contents are linked so the user can simply jump to the right section. This is a huge fail because for this fact alone, this book should not exist or be purchased. Publishers need to go the extra step for cook books. It's not enough to simply convert them for an e-reader.

A good selection of tasty and easy to follow recipes for new and more experienced Instant Potters.

Mouthwatering goodness in this cookbook, from breakfast, lunch, snacks, deserts and many options for main meals, this cookbook delivers some creative food ideas for your Instant Pot. The Instant Pot is such a great invention and having a quick go to for meal planning is great. Cookbooks are not complete to me without full color photos of the food ideas. Well, this book does not disappoint in the delectable looking food options. Anyone can follow these instructions and be on their way to amazing food in just minutes. You’ll want to pick up your copy and get cooking!
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I love my instant pot and it is great to have a book with a selection of recipes that are straight forward and delicious.

My husband got me an Instant Pot back in January for my birthday and I absolutely love it. There is something so magical about this particular pressure cooker. I always love coming across pressure cooker cookbooks and it is particularly exciting when they are brand specific to Instant Pot so you know the exact buttons to push. There was a great introduction for newbies about how to use the Instant Pot and then there are tons of great recipes following that. You could essential use your IP for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert if you really wanted to! There are a great variety of recipes, new ones I haven't seen elsewhere, and I look forward to trying out many of them!

I am new to NetGalley and was unaware that the downloads will expire after a certain length of time. I am sorry but the copy of the book I downloaded expired before I was able to complete my review so I will not be able to publish the review on my site.

Having recently bought an Instant pot I have been looking for lots of recipes. Most recipes online use only two of the functions of the instant pot, pressure cooking and yoghurt making. The Instant Pot® Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook goes through all the functions of the pot and will help you get full use of your wonderful new kitchen tool. Lasagna, Ribs, Risottos, and even desserts, a book full of recipes you will use again and again.
The only downside for me is it's an American book so there's one or two things that are difficult to source, but I'm used to coming up with alternatives.

TITLE: Recipes are straightforward, creative, efficient and tasty. I like this book!

I’m not usually a fan of appliance cookbooks put out by the company that makes the appliance, as they are usually shallow and lacking in many ways—they seem like an afterthought. That is not the case here, with this well-done, well-put-together book. This Instant Pot-sponsored book contains quality recipes. Instructions are straightforward, efficient in their steps and produce tasty results. You will see/read some dorky content at the beginning, in the intro, that sounds like a promotional infomercial, but that gives way to solid advice and instruction.

If you just want the basics, this is not the cookbook you are looking for. And there are no timing charts. (Go to the Instant Pot website for the basics and charts. Even though the Instant Pot website is more than a bit ambiguous, you can probably get all the basic info you could possibly want from there.)

This is a book of recipes: You will need more than basic ingredients and you will need some room to do prep work. Some recipes will require a cooktop or an oven. Not that any of these requirements are surprising, I just mention it to ward off the potential buyer looking to use this book in conjunction with an Instant Pot in a dorm room or other tiny place.

These are not basic recipes that a busy college student living in a tight place will be able to tackle--space-wise. Would she or he wish they could tackle some of these recipes?? Oh, yes! For instance, I am a home cook, with a regular-sized, well-equipped kitchen, and there are many, many recipes in this book that have made me get my Instant Pot off the shelf and back onto the counter top. But if you don’t have the room to store and prep ingredients, these recipes will push your organizational skills beyond the limit.

If you do order this particular book, while you are waiting for it to arrive, find yourself a 6”x 3” round cake pan and a deep 8” round soufflé or casserole dish, because those are the sizes mentioned. If you want to bake or make casseroles in your Instant Pot, you will need some kind of pan and/or dish. (I have noticed that other recipe books call for different sizes.)

I found the recipe instructions to be very straightforward. Of course, as with any recipe, cooking times need slight adjustments per your environment and ingredients, but I have far fewer questions on the recipes in this book, than when working with the Instant Pot website. In other words, less ambiguity with these recipes than the info on the website. Each recipe in this book makes it very clear which buttons to push.

Also, cooking times in these recipes are often different from what I find in the website charts. (Like the potato salad recipe: Steaming 2 pounds of baby/new whole potatoes (about 16) takes 1 1/2C of water in the bottom of the pot, Manual button, high pressure for 8 minutes, quick release. The website chart will tell you 10-12 minutes in 1 C water, but will not tell you which button to push, or give pounds/amount, just saying “small or medium amount of food”. (It was ambiguity like that on the website that originally made me put my Instant Pot away in frustration……)

*The instructions in this book were developed with the Instant Pot DUO60 V2 (6 quart), so if you have a newer Instant Pot model without that basic “Manual” button, I believe you will be choosing “Pressure Cook”.

Another example of instructions that work, found in the Spaghetti Squash with Garlic and Sage Brown Butter recipe: One spaghetti squash, about 3 ½ pounds, halved crosswise and seeded, 1 1/2C water, on the steam rack, manual button, high pressure, 15 minutes, quick release. Or this one for the potatoes in a yummy twice-baked potato recipe: Steam 4 12-ounce russet potatoes: Prick, place on steam rack, 1 1/2C water, Manual button, high pressure, 25 minutes.

You might very well disagree with me, but I get annoyed with pressure cooker books that seem to “force” foods into the pressure cooker method. There are foods—quick-cooking veggies, eggs, fish fillets, for example—that are just as easily cooked in a pan on your cooktop. This book avoids doing that (for the most part, although there is a recipe for deviled eggs and one for salmon….). The Jambalaya recipe makes a lot of sense to me, for instance: The raw shrimp are added after the rest of the ingredients are cooked: Quick release to vent the steam, open lid, stir in shrimp, lock lid and let sit for 10 minutes. Shrimp are not over-cooked. (Many of the seafood recipes are bowl food.)

I found the vegetarian main dish chapter too short for me. But the very colorful (and very suitable for the Thanksgiving table), Layered Vegetable Casserole with sweet potatoes, Yukon gold, rutabaga, beets and cannellini beans is a real keeper. And the yogurt recipes give one an idea of how to utilize the yogurt-making feature of this machine. For me, there could have been more grain recipes, (but I have Lorna Sass for that!).

There is a dessert chapter, too. And the pictures look yummy, but I don’t often make desserts.

Some observations:

--No exotic or unfamiliar ingredients.
--No canned soup, no canned beans (with one exception of canned cannellini in a casserole), not much canned goods at all—maybe tomatoes. (There are a good amount of bean recipes using dried beans.)
--I found it necessary to cut down on the amount of salt called for in the recipes. And I increased the pepper or added a different source of spicy heat.
--Prep times are accurate for average experience cooks.
--Cook times are fairly accurate; maybe some slight adjustments to be made for when you don’t follow directions exactly.
--There are pictures for most recipes, and they are full-color and pretty--maybe not the best quality, though.....

Some terrific recipes:
--Orange and Honey-Glazed Carrots with Dill; from opening your bag of carrots to serving is less than 15 minutes.
--Chorizo and Pinto Beans; the recipe pairs the mix with nachos, I put it on flour tortillas.
--Sweet and Sour Meatballs; ground pork or chicken, bound with an egg white.
--A Three-Bean Salad fit for a pot luck: Cannellini, kidney and fresh green beans, with a lemon-y vinaigrette.
--Scallion Corn Bread is on the sweet-ish side—just like we like it at our house.
--Some of the beef/lamb/pork recipes are for the pot as a slow cooker, some for the pressure cooker. There is a nice representation that will give insight for changing up your own meat recipes. I really enjoyed the Balsamic Beef Short Ribs, prep time 20 minutes, cook time (saute and manual buttons) is an hour.
--Lemon Chicken with Green Olives is quick and economical. I often make a similar recipe in the oven. This is quicker and less mess to clean up—a real game-changer for me!
--I like the entire chapter of pork recipes. We especially enjoyed the Beer Garden Casserole: Layers of cabbage, apple and sweet Italian sausage meat. (I added onions.) Also Sticky and Sweet Sriracha Ribs, cooked over vinegar and not water. And the Pozole recipe is very good!

*I originally received a temporary download of this cookbook from the publisher. But, as you can see from the "Verified Purchase" tag at the top of this review, I bought a hard copy for myself to put on my library shelf. (And so my neighbor can borrow it: She's a big Instant Pot fan and she got me started on it!)

I made 3 recipes, but looked through the entire book a few times. This is a no frills cookbook, which is fine. I would've liked some process pictures, though. When I see a recipe online, there are always (too many) pictures along the way of the recipe, which can be helpful. I made the beef ragu, lamb souvlaki, and pulled pork. I was faithful to the main idea of the recipes, and only had issue with the pork, which needed much more time to cook with the pressure setting. Once I added more time, it was good. The lamb was delicious and by far my favorite dish of the 3. Also, my kids liked the recipes, too, which is great.

Unfortunately, I cannot open this document so cannot read or review.

NIce overview of the Instant Pot and some good basic recipes.

The formatting was completely off on my version. I realize this is an ARC but it is impossible to evaluate when the pictures and text are askew and only half the recipe is visible.

I am an Instant Pot fanatic, I will gladly admit, and this book was a great primer on some IP questions that I've had for a while. I was amazed that the lid of the pot locks into the handles, saving counter space.

I really liked the creative recipes that the book had - and that a lot of them were Whole30 or easily modified to fit the Whole30 diet (which I follow). Of the 72 recipes in the book, 30 were Whole30 compatible (or could be made compatible with a little substitution.

The recipes that I tried were good, but the ingredients were a bit vague. Thankfully, the beef short ribs I tried came out tasty (but watery). Same for the chicken wings - Ohmygod yum. When I went to make their Garlicy Kale and Bacon and I just couldn't figure out the right amount of ingredients. 6 slices of bacon? Ok, we use stuff from the farmer's market and the slices are HUGE. One large bunch of kale? Uh... they only sell them in one size, so hopefully this is enough. In the end, I ended up with 2 servings of very bacon-y and not so lemon-y or garlicy kale, which my husband loved but made me feel ill.

Then there are the recipes that are just plain strange. I'm probably never going to bake a cake in the Instant Pot, or cook a casserole. Some of the recipes, like Potato Salad and Nachos, barely involve the Instant Pot. I think a better way to present this info would have been a chapter on "Basics" with how to cook Potatos, Spaghetti Squash, Beans, etc - which they kind of have with the broth recipe.

Overall, I give this book 3 stars. It would be a great addition to a gift of an Instant Pot. I definitely recommend checking out the recipes to see if anything strikes your fancy... but in terms of being worth the space on your cookbook shelf, I guess that depends on how much you enjoy baking cakes in your instant pot.

I was given a free copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I received a digital copy of this book from Netgalley/the publishers in exchange for an honest review.

I was excited about the opportunity to go through Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker cookbook. I purchased an Instant Pot during Amazon’s Black Friday sale last November, and I use it to cook dinner for my family 2-3 times a week.

I found the recipes in this book to be somewhat esoteric. The ingredients are not necessarily pantry staples. I have one of the more adventurous palates in my family, but I could not find much that appealed to me, let alone the pickier people in my family.

If you are looking for basic recipes using basic ingredients that allow you to create Instant Pot dishes with mass appeal, then this cookbook will be a letdown.

If, however, you are looking to do things with your Instant Pot beyond meatloaf macaroni and cheese, then this cookbook may be of interest.

I would recommend this cookbook with that caveat. Personally, I have found better recipes using Pinterest and the Instant Pot cookbook, but that doesn’t mean that other home chefs would not find more usefulness for this book than me.