Instant Pot Fast & Easy: 100 Simple and Delicious Recipes for Your Instant Pot

I'm an old cook but was new to pressure cookers/instant pots & fortunately stumbled on Urvashi Pitre's book in 2019 after buying our first instant pot. Since then I've bought it for our adult children when they've gotten their first pressure cookers: it's that good a cookbook & teaching tool. The biggest advantage to Dr. Pitre's cookbooks is that she knows what the IP technology does & how it affects food during the cooking process. Yes, her recipes are tasty & varied but they are also recipes that work in the steamy environment of a pressure cooker. That's SO important! Because pressure cookers use steam to cook quickly there are recipes that don't translate well to them, & foods cook with a lot less liquid that we're used to so you have to adjust both liquid levels & often the spicing levels as well to get a good outcome. Thus the best rice to use is Basmati because of how it cooks in steam, & you only need about 1/4 cup of liquid to cook 1 cup of rice. Too much more liquid & you'll get rice mush. This cookbook is a gem: you can cook the recipes as written & the recipes, including spice mix recipes, are easily adjusted to your own taste. After cooking a few recipes & getting a feel for instant pots I had no problem creating IP recipes for some of our family favorites & that's entirely due to Dr. Pitre's helpful, cheerful and supportive style of recipe writing. HIGHLY recommend!

The only cooking book that has inspired me to make delicious dinners for my family! Recipes are fast and easy just like the book says, without spending hours in the kitchen. The book is well organized, recipes are in the right order. There is also a few tips how to make the best use of it. Excellent illustrations. The recipes are from around the world, short and simple but delicious! Make sure you get the right book, there is a couple other books that have a similar cover but the content is just not worth buying them.

Book came quickly and was packaged well. We've made nearly 20 of these recipes so far and they have all been fool-proof and delicious. The author also has an informative youtube channel. My only complaint is that paperback cookbooks are susceptible to water! Lol. We split a drink on ours and it's a bit warped now.

My headline, #TrustUrvashi, about says it all. Urvashi Pitre has a very personal - friendly - writing style, even for something as potentially dry and boring as a cookbook! She uses the first person which brings her right into your kitchen, and she talks about how she has altered the traditional recipes to make them easier and faster. Every one of her recipes I've tried has come together perfectly; her recipes are well tested, as opposed to many sources that publish but don't test the recipes! There is some criticism of the number of recipes that use rice. Other readers have already gone to the trouble to check the counts, which are overstated by the critics. Besides, this cookbook includes recipes (traditionally called receipts in many countries that were colonized by the British), from many countries - and guess what, far far more countries in this big world rely on rice than American potatoes! Don't like rice? Fine, make your pasta or potatoes or dumplings separately and eat them instead of the rice. We love rice and rely on Jasmine, Basmati, and American converted white rice, depending on what we're making, so I appreciate Urvashi's use of rice. So, to paraphrase an old rhyme, Critics take cover, Grumps go to sleep - these recipes need cooking, and good food doesn't keep!

I ordered three of these for my kids for Christmas and loved it so much as I was wrapping it, that I had to get one for myself! What do I love most? The variety! She has included recipes from all over the world and every one I’ve made so far has been delicious, never mind that as with all of Urvashi’s recipes, they are easy to follow and the ingredients are common. This is a must for all Instant Pot owners, whether you’re a newbie or a pro!

1---Urvashi Pitre is a kook, not cook, for tahini (sesame paste) adding where it shouldn't be = page 185 Baba Ghanoush, page 219 Cucumber Tzatziki. I refused to add it for the tzatziki ! And regrettably I followed her recipe for baba. Big mistake. Eggplant is subtle so the tahini obliterated its flavor. Who are you, Urvahi, to publish such nonsense? 2---I liked the Kunde (Kenyan black-eye peas with peanut sauce) page 142 but once again a nut flavor-dominated dish. 3---Also, many of her recipes strain to adapt them to this over-rated Instant Pot craze: page 191 Cardamon Halva in a 6x4 pan onto steamer rack into instant pot is ridiculous. Far easier on the stove top. Instant pot is handy for speeding up bean-vegetable prep but not everything which this cook and book lead you to believe. 4---I will try some of her Indian spiced meats, stew-type recipes but henceforth I will adapt them using my common sense. Conclusion: Urvashi Pitre's $22 cookbook is highly skewed to her PERSONAL Indian tastes so this book is just an extension of her Indian Instant Pot Cookbook. IMHO save the $22 and select your instant pot recipes online. . .without tahini !

The cookbook is spiral bound, heavy and easy to use. I have tried quite a few recipes and they all turn out delicious!! So far my favorite is 'butter chicken.' If you don't already own some of the spices called for, it is worth your time to go to your coo-op or similar market to buy them. They're not expensive. You won't be disappointed.

This is a great Instant Pot cookbook to have on hand. The recipes are well written and there is a great variety of things to try. I make the hummus recipe at least once a week - I will never go back to store bought hummus or using canned chick peas!

EASY, well laid out recipes for amazing food. Buy the book. Her blog is a dizzying nightmare of spam and computer resource wasters.

I love her food , done the fish in coconut and paprika yesterday it's blooming stunning. Doing the quiche today. Her butter curry is awesome. I'm buying all her books. AMAZING FOOD .

Love the recipes, easy to follow, and gives all info you need to know in order to cook in the Instant Pot.

This book is well worth buying. All the recipes I have tried have worked perfectly and are extremely tasty. They are also very easy to cook. I have several books by this author and they are all great.