We’ve ordered an Instant Pot

[CruCru]

Do you have one? What do you like to make in it?

I used to have a slow cooker, which was great for making stock and mulling wine.

Hurrah! The boy loved it and ate two bowlfuls. Looks like I’ve found a form of chicken that he will eat.

Definitely try that rice method, honestly works like a dream every time. I never use the actual Rice programme on the pot.

I've done my rice in a pot, equal rice to water, put the taller trivet over the butter chicken and sit therice bowl on that and it comes up beautiful....I can cook anything, but rice is my nemesis, I am giddy with excitement about it if I am honest!

Equal rice to water? Can I count on that?! I've burned rice in the pressure king before so have low confidence in this one.

well it worked for a cup and a half of basmati in a pyrex dish, with a cup and a half of water over the curry!

the whole lot then got ten minutes on normal pressure, 10 minutes NPR and then vented the rest and lid off!

Yes! 1:1 for white rice, as long as the rice is rinsed and drained before you put it in.

I'll try the rice again next time I'm doing curry in the IP but its so easy on the hob there doesn't seem to be much benefit unless you are using the IP for curry or similar too.

I've used my instant pot loads this weekend - slow cooke a chicken overnight, then made stock, made risotto with most of the chicken and then made chicken and barley soup with the leftover chicken and the stock!

I'm going to be trying yogurt this week, got myself a nut milk bag.

I've seen videos of people doing cold stare yogurt. would you need to use uht milk for this? Like Cravendale, or the milk you get on shelves rather than the fridge? Sorry for all the questions!

Am now making a soup / risotto with pearl barley, leeks, celery, garlic, a yellow pepper, a sweet potato, dried rosemary, some vegetable stock and a can of chopped tomatoes.

I’ve adapted a slow cooker recipe from a Judith Finlayson.

My children won’t eat risotto so I’ll have to call it soup.

Amazing! My children said this was nice.

That looks lovely Cru! Does it have butternut squash in too? Is the recipe online?

No butternut squash. I (more or less) used this recipe but used an extra cup of pearl barley and added a can of tomatoes.

This one. I used the soup / broth function (half an hour on high).

I used a leek and some celery instead of an onion because I’d run out of onions. The pepper I added because I had loads to use up.

Brilliant, thank you! I'll try it tomorrow.

I’m going to try this next week. A friend was doing it for her kids and it looked really good.

So the nut bag for the yoghurt worked nowhere near as well as a sieve lined with triple layer kitchen roll. It was faster but let a lot of the good stuff through as well so what went through included a lot of milky yoghurt. I passed it through the kitchen roll afterwards. Delicious result this time though, as made it with full fat milk. I'm still unconvinced it is worth the faff.

I did cold start yoghurt, which worked a treat.

Sorry if this has been asked but is the pressure king pro as good?

I have one and it has all the same features and the materials are the same.

I have a pressure king pro and it's pretty good. The only think I'm not mad about is the thin metal used on the inside of the lid - it seems a little flimsy but I haven't dented it or anything (yet).

Made my first rice pudding of the year in mine! Melted a knob of butter on sauté, added 100g pudding rice and stirred through into butter was absorbed, added sugar (I don’t use much, a sprinkling) and about a pint of milk, cooked for 20 mins. Delicious! (this makes quite a thick pudding, which is how I like it. Add more milk for a runnier one)

That is my most favourite food ever.

I said to the DC as we were shovelling it in - “I could eat this every day” and they both nodded in agreement. So good. So easy!

Thanks Fekko. Made the rice pudding just now. Sublime! Can i eat the whole lot myself?