Thank you for the opportunity to review - I learned a bunch and feel like I have the right foundation to keep exploring.

An excellent little cookbook that is very helpful in figuring out how to use an Instant Pot, the different types of things you can cook in it, and how to adapt the parts for each type of food cooked. I also liked almost all of the recipes that I have tried from it.

I love my Instant Pot and I love this cookbook!! I have to say that I am not a fan of this version of the ebook, but that is an esthetics thing for me. The recipes are simple and easy to follow and simply delicious! Whats not to love about a book that give you great guidelines and tips amongst the recipes as well as walking you through each and every step! This is the book for anyone who owns or is getting an Instant Pot!

Essentials, it’s in the name and it’s in the book. This book is great! It starts you with the basic instructions of how to use your new pressure cooker but quickly moves on to some delectable dishes and sides. Maybe you’re like me and you like cooking with natural ingredients that are non-processed and from scratch. Things like dry beans and learning how to make your own yogurt, hummus, and bone-broth. And how can you go wrong with a desert with chai in it? There’s one in this book called Coconut Chai Rice Pudding. Warning: if you’re hungry this book is torture to look at. It’s sure to have you drooling.
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Love new instant pot recipes! I thought the digital edition was hard to navigate and didn't allow browsing like I enjoy doing with recipe books. I'd recommend getting a hard copy of this, and am sure you will enjoy new ways to use instant pots and electric pressure cookers

I love my instant pot. So versatile! I collect cookbooks as well so this was a perfect book for me. I plan to buy one for a family member for Christmas this year.

This is a fantastic step-by-step book on using an Instant Pot.  It also teaches you how to convert recipes to fit your Instant Pot, which is my favorite part. It answers many questions on troubleshooting, PIP cooking and other issues. The variety of recipes are fabulous and the pictures are very enticing.  If you already have one or if you're thinking of buying one this is a great book to learn from.

For reasons that I won't go in to, for the past year I have been living in a modern, but very small bedsit in a foreign city. My kitchen is a 2 metre wall at the end of my living room: fridge, sink, hob, with the microwave on my sofa end table. No prep area at all. No storage. Dine on the coffee table. To make serious cooking half-way possible, a few months ago I brought an Instant Pot Duo-60 back with me from a European trip. To use it I have had to disconnect the hob. So my Instant Pot and a very basic microwave are the extent of my heat sources.

I've not used a pressure cooker before, and I've been learning as I go, using the booklet of recipes that came with the Instant Pot supplemented with the multitude of recipes online. When Ten Speed offered me this new book to review, I jumped at the chance.

Well, I could have waited. Those who follow my cookbook reviews know that I value the pleasure of reading a cookbook as much as, or even more than the recipes themselves, and on this score, Ms Morante's book does not make the grade, and I think I am going to put most of the blame on Ten Speed.

My introduction to the Instant Pot was Melissa Clark's January 2017 New York Times Cooking article, video, and link to a The Sweethome shopping comparison. Ms Clark discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Instant Pot, calling in the pressure cooker expertise of writer Linda Sass. Ms Clark summarizes her discussion by saying that the Instant Pot is great for some things, particularly stews and fully cooked meats, but it will not, for example, replace her rice cooker. Positives are pork butt (the video), reduced broth, beets and artichokes, negatives are other vegetables, yogurt, and chicken.

This, I believe, is how an Instant Pot cookbook should be written. Present the strengths, present the weaknesses, show how to adapt recipes, and present practical tips. Begin by asking the fundamentals of who will be using the Instant Pot, where, and why.

With a quick trip online we learn that the Instant Pot is practically required hardware for campground camping, and that makes sense. Campground cooking space is restricted, the cook does not have access to a kitchen full of gear, and the cook does not want to be chained in the kitchen. So campers are sure to be one of the largest group of readers of our cookbook.

Who else cooks in restricted space and tools? College students and young people in tiny apartments that they might share.

Finally we have the proficient cooks working in an equipped kitchen who will use the Instant Pot as an additional heat source, and time saver. Saving time is the main reason to use a pressure cooker in the first place. Around the world the primary use of pressure cooker is to cook beans. The electronic features of the new pots make them safer than manual pressure cookers, which appeals to me and to Ms Clark.

We can look too to the Crock Pot, the elderly cousin of the Instant Pot, to expand our book's scope. What is the glory of the Crock Pot? It's that we don't have to watch it. Thus the Instant Pot's self-timing functions are a big draw. Who doesn't want to tend the stove? Busy people and people who don't like to cook.

So with these simple questions we have the outlines of our book's core audience: people who are busy, don't want to tend the stove, and who also might be cooking in restricted spaces.

If we aim the text at these readers we are sure to have a hit. Yes the Instant Pot can do more than cook beans and stews, but I really ask who will bake cakes in an Instant Pot if they have an oven or access to a supermarket with a bakery counter? Will people really cook roasts in the Instant Pot and then finish them in the oven? Casseroles, the standard oven-to-table meal, if cooked in the tall round Instant Pot are a nightmare to serve attractively.

Baking cakes, making yogurt and fermented foods, and the other tricks that are possible with the Instant Pot are interesting, but it is pointless to pretend that the Instant Pot will be the go-to appliance in a reasonably equipped kitchen.

Ms Morante and Ten Speed have not approached this cookbook this way, and what results is a stilted text that presents recipes in a dry style that is no different from online sources. Here is a recipe for this, here is a recipe for that, here is how to do this other thing. I see no reason to buy this book when the same information is available online at no cost.

Additionally, Ten Speed editors and art director have been able to bring the book to a high standard of text or art.

• The recipes are presented in weird semi-random order with porridge in Breakfast, not in Grains. Bolognaise sauce is in beef, not in the Chili section, which in itself seems a strange title for a chapter. I think I would have grouped the recipes following the Instant Pot pre-set functions: Slow Cook, Sauté, Stew, Poultry, etc.
• The inclusion of a peculiar tonic drink in Breakfast. (This isn't a health book.)
• Overuse of the word "pairing" to include adding anything from spices to hot sauce to a a recipe.
• I really don't like the photos. Everything looks overcooked and gummy.
• The dishes are served with short-grained rice that looks a lot like par-boiled packaged rice. I can taste the blandness just looking at it. But perhaps this is a function of the cooker itself, which Ms Clark reports performs less well than her rice cooker.
• The overuse of "aka" to present another name for something, aka a synonym.
• Momos are Tibetan, not Nepalese. They are common in Nepal now because of the refugees. The Momos Meatball recipe is not like any momos I have eaten anywhere, and I love momos.
• Gross unbrowned Italian meatballs. Ms Morente seems not to brown anything if the sauce is spicy, but elsewhere asks us to brown a whole chicken in the pot. Browning a whole chicken is always difficult and I would not try in the confined space of the Instant Pot. Melissa Clark singles out whole chicken in the Instant Pot as being particularly unsatisfactory.
• What's with the avocado oil in everything?

I received a review copy of "The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook: Fresh and Foolproof Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker" by Coco Morante (Ten Speed) through NetGalley.com.

Tried and true favorites, and a few new mouthwatering recipes, are included in this well-presented electric pressure cooker idea book. Delicious and timesaving, well worth the read.

I’m going to keep this one short and to the point: The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook by Coco Morante is really a good, all-around cookbook for those with an Instant Pot or hoping to learn how to use one.

After having spent time time with some cookbooks that involved some more complex instructions and rarefied ingredient lists–as much as I enjoyed them!–it was quite nice to jump into this cookbook. Accessible with tasty-sounding recipes, I had no problems finding things to add to my To Make list.

I work 12 hour days. On my days off, I love spending time in the kitchen, trying out recipes and experimenting. On days that I work? A girl still has to eat. The Instant Pot is a good solution to that particular problem. If you have your ingredients ready to go in the morning, you can have a hot meal ready to go in 20-45 minutes with much of that time being hands-off. Just get the IP going when you get home, walk the dog, and then you’re good to go when you get back!

My ‘To Make’ List

Lemon-Poppy Seed Breakfast Cake
Crustless Broccoli and Cheddar Quiche
Brown Butter Steel-Cut Oatmeal
Risotto with Lemon and Peas
Leek and Potato Soup
Beef Shank and Barley Soup
Ropa Vieja
Braised Brisket with Onion Gravy
Pulled Pork Adobo
Pork Loin with Balsamic and Caramelized Onions
Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage
Sicilian-Style Chard with Raisins and Pine Nuts
Kale with Apple and Onion
Lemon-Honey Poached Pears with Whipped Greek Yogurt
Meyer Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake
New York Cheesecake
Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote
30-Minute Caramelized Onions

I really liked this cookbook! I am one of those people that has an Instant Pot but doesn't know how to take full advantage of it. This cookbook would be a great gift or purchase for anyone in the same boat! Yummy recipes that weren't intimidating, step-by step instructions and a good amount of variety. My family really enjoyed the mac and cheese and I'm looking forward to trying that carrot cake!

Whether you are new to pressure cooking or not, this is a great cookbook and an invaluable resource for getting to know your Instant Pot!

TITLE: A very worthwhile Instant Pot cookbook!

There is a great variety of well-thought out recipes in this book. And, what's especially great about all those quality recipes, is that the author succeeded in creating them in a way that we can reproduce them accurately, easily and without a lot of effort. She is a great planner and teacher, and that comes out in her instructions and personable writing style. Beautiful pictures of each recipe help tie it all together.

I especially like that she fine-tuned cooking steps, and their sequencing, and chose particular Instant Pot cooking modes with care. And she combined certain ingredients with much thoughtfulness to minimize those cooking steps. There is not a lot of rig-a-morale, no fussing--but the end result of these dishes will lead your family and friends to think you spent the afternoon in the kitchen.

Some of these recipes may verge on the familiar, recognized, and tried and true, but ingredients are interesting and flavor combinations are vibrant and anything but boring.

I could have wished for more grain recipes, and more soups, too. But there is a decent representation. Could have wished for more pork recipes, but there is a good representation of beef dishes.

Breakfast chapter contains a decent strata and a no-crust quiche that inspire one to try them with alternate ingredients. I liked the steel-cut oats sautéed in butter, then cooked on the porridge setting. Done in 12 minutes after coming up to pressure. The honey-turmeric tonic is good, too.

Within main recipes, there are sometimes additional recipes. For instance, I liked her Sofrito recipe for the Arroz Con Pollo. It can be frozen in portions.

In her Plum Chili Chicken recipe, she calls for boneless, skinless chicken thighs, but in her “Notes”, she also provides instructions for skin-on and bone-in thighs. So, you will see that with the author's carefully placed, helpful instructions, it is easier to gain insight to tweak recipe times and techniques for variations in ingredients.

Recipes throughout the book represent a wide variety of ethnic flavors. For instance, in the Poultry section, you will find Cajun, Midwest, Iranian, Italian, Asian, Puerto Rican.

There are many Instant Pot cook books on the market lately. This one is not a re-hash; not dull, and absolutely no lack-luster dishes here. And all are produced with ease--and that, I think, is the magic of this book. This one will give you new ideas and get your creative juices flowing. It will set you on a path to start re-creating your own favorites for use in the Instant Pot.

*I received a temporary download of this book from the publisher.

I received an advanced copy of The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook: Fresh and Foolproof Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker to review. As someone brand new to the Instant Pot, this book was invaluable. I had never used an Instant Pot and was skeptical about the hype. The recipes were easy to follow for a newbie to the Instant Pot and the results were delicious. I especially appreciate the detailed but easy to read information about the inner workings of the Instant Pot itself and how to use it safely. I had never used a pressure cooker before and had heard some horror stories of getting burned by the release of the steam. All in all, I think this is a good choice especially for someone new to Instant Pots.

I bought my Instant Pot cooker about a year ago, and it quickly became a featured star among my kitchen appliances. I donated my rice cooker, and my crockpot to other family members, although I retained my pressure cooker, not sure if the Instant Pot would completely take over its functions.

I probably use my Instant Pot an average of twice a week, and I was looking forward to expanding my use after a thorough reading of Coco Morante’s new “Essential Instant Pot”. Morante does a fabulous job of explaining how the Instant Pot works, and takes the users through the many buttons, timing features, and answers a long list of “Frequently Asked Questions”. I wish I had had this book when I first bought my Instant Pot, and highly recommend it as a buy-along if you purchase one.

This cookbook is very usable in two important ways. First, the recipes are good. I loved her Momo Meatballs with Cilantro Chutney, and Turkey Chile Verde with Pinto Beans. Second, because Morante includes recipes for a variety of “classics”, you can use your own recipes if you have them, and use the recipes to adapt them for the Instant Pot, with temperatures and timing experimentation eliminated.

A cookbook that is authorized by Instant Pot containing more than 75 recipes. Chili, roasted, chicken, cauliflower mashed potatoes and cheesecake. Wonderful recipes and great photography fo everyday use.

After looking through many of the Instant Pot cookbooks on the market, I came across The Essential Instant Pot cookbook. This book is the perfect fit for me as it actually has recipes that my family will eat and tips that I found helpful. From picking an instant pot to helpful tools and even how to convert recipes, this cookbook is a wealth of information.

Now to the most important part. While I love to try new things, not everyone in my family does. Sure, they tolerate me since I do most of the cooking, but it’s difficult to get them to try something new. This cookbook was made for families like mine! Here is a small selection of the recipes: lemon poppy-seed breakfast cake; sausage and green onion strata; crustless broccoli and cheddar quiche; Florentine omelet; brown sugar steel-cut oatmeal; Honey-tumeric tonic; basic beans; classic hummus; chana masala; basic rice; risotto with lemon and peas; barley with mushrooms and sage; red lentil soup with sumac; minestrone; chicken and dumplings; arroz con pollo; cajun chicken and sausage jambalaya; chicken cacciatore; Thanksgiving turkey breast and gravy; fettuccine with Bolognese sauce: meatballs marinara; Irish beef and root vegetable stew; classic meatloaf; sloppy joes; barbeque baby back ribs; one-pot roast dinner; corned beef with cabbage, carrots and potatoes; steamed spaghetti squash; maple-mashed sweet potatoes; carrot cake with cream cheese frosting; blueberry bread pudding; meyer lemon ricotta cheesecake and coconut chai rice pudding.

Am I making you hungry?

The only downfall, in my opinion, is that there isn’t any nutrition information. Some people may not like that the cookbook does not contain a photo for every recipe; however, there a good many pictures, and I’m ok with that. So far this my favorite cookbook for the instant pot that I recently purchased. .

I really wanted to take a look at this book to help me make the decision of whether or not to buy an Instant Pot. Sometimes it seems like too many gadgets in the kitchen! Not to mention, this will be a completely new way of cooking for me as I have never used a pressure cooker. This had a great introduction for those of us new to the Instant Pot and some wonderful recipes. There was a picture of a cake baked in the Instant Pot, so I’m thinking, maybe I'll go ahead and do this. Think this is really a great introduction for those of us who are novices to this way of cooking, and there are plenty of delicious recipes to choose from.

There is very little choice in the UK for cooking with this magic machine.
This book contains some delicious recipes that I can see myself using time and time again.

The book starts with how to use instant pot followed by a huge array of recipes........ Wonderful book......

I enjoyed this book over other pressure pot books that have been published (and there have been quite a few). Many of the dishes use simple ingredients and offer suggestions for substitutions and variations. I may purchase a print copy so I can mark it up and keep it on my kitchen counter.