How to Cook Small Beef Joint in 3 Ltr Pressure Cooker

Instant Pot MINI 3-quart Pressure Cooker Recipes

Recipes that will fit in the 3-quart Instant Pot MINI electric pressure cooker without any changes! Plus, don't miss our guide on how to shrink regular pressure cooker recipes to fit in the mini.

I open all of my pressure cooker demos and classes making this dip because this recipe showcases how quickly and easily the stubborn eggplant (which takes, forever to become tender) can be prepared.
Juicy, tender and succulent chicken breast bathed in a thick flavorful sauce that's easy to make in the pressure cooker?!?! Believe it!

It's not easy to get good results frozen (or even...
Here's a cute variation from the standard plain 'ol white rice - in addition to looking cute it has a slightly nuttier flavor. A perfect fluffy bed to support your favorite veggie or meat...
This nearly pocket-sized 3-quart cooker is small and cute but cooking in a world of recipes written for larger pressure cookers is definitely a challenge! Here's how to adjust larger recipes, and...
The "grains" are springy, the zucchini...
Although rice is usually soaked, the pressure cooker hurries the process along so that you can get in 1 minute what would ordinarily take 8 hours. This drink is refreshing, lightly sweetened with...
This stew offers deep, rich notes of a slowly braised stew without the wait - or fancy knife skills (all the vegetables are roughly chopped). Porcini mushrooms add to that richness and maintain...
What is the point of whipping out the pressure cooker when you can just slide the mug in the microwave and call it a day? It's how the pressure cooker heats-up foods that makes the lava in this cake possible.
The creaminess of this soup is in the texture – not the ingredients! I use one my favorite soup-thickening tricks to make this soup light yet satisfying.
Steaming broccoli sounds simple, right? But, first, we need a steamer basket to steam them with!
This is a pretty simple recipe that showcases how the pressure cooker's steam can make perfect grains of fluffy rice – even brown rice! As we mentioned earlier
This recipe shows you how to add vegetables to any pressure cooker rice dish but counting some of the vegetables as the cooking liquid. The exceptions
Make this recipe with any kind of potato – leave the skin on for extra fiber and protein or peel it off before starting. It's up to you. The pressure cooker will tenderize the skins so they'll add color, but they will be barely noticeable texture-wise.
Make your very own ketchup from scratch in minutes of pressure cooking (and some simmering). Start with fresh tomatoes, add a few ingredients and spices to get a rich, sweet and...
Make your own barbeque sauce to get full control of the ingredients and show off the pressure cooker's ability to infuse flavors in a flash. This sauce does not need to mature or age - when...
Make super-sticky sushi rice in your pressure cooker in just minutes! While the rice is pressure cooking you can prep the sushi fillings. This video features my son Vittorio...
I came up with the 1-minute Quinoa pressure cooker method five years ago after seeing wildly different cooking times cited by other experts. I didn't like ending-up with mushy gruel-like...
According to Prevention Magazine, steel-cut oats have a slightly lower glycemic index and fewer calories than rolled oats¹. There is some debate about the significance of this...
We fake this instant oatmeal classic by using milk and the oat's own starch as the cream. Whenever I could talk my mother into bringing home an Instant Oatmeal Variety Pack - the...
Make these healthified Sloppy Joes from scratch and cut down their simmering time to 10 minutes of completely hands-off pressure cooking - during which you can make coleslaw.

A Sloppy Joe is...
Another pressure cooker first that will save you loads of time (10 min pressure cooking vs. 60-90 simmering) and preserve lemon peels to use as home-made candy or to use in your...
This is one of those deceptively easy recipes - that took forever to figure out. Wanting to duplicate my mother's hour-long oven baked apple down to every detail slowed...
Ricotta does not need a pressure cooker- it can be made with any 'ol pot with lots of supervision and stirring - but the automated programs of Instant Pot makes the process soooo much...
Sometimes you've just got to try something to believe it. Melting chocolate in the pressure cooker is one of those things.

Using the pressure cooker to melt chocolate goes against...
This recipe gets a concentrated mushroom flavor from the addition of dried mushrooms - try different types to completely change the flavor. To thicken the soup we went with potatoes instead of...
Sometimes, a boiled potato won't do. On a whim, and then over and over and over again, I tossed the potatoes in the pressure cooker to pre-cook them a bit while my oven was pre-heating. WOW!
The pressure cooker is used to quickly re-hydrate the cranberries with a squeeze of lemon to bring them back to life- the result is thick, tart, and lightly firm cranberry sauce.
Beets pack a nutritional punch with high concentration of beta carotene, folic acid and more but cooking them from fresh can take forever and make a bloody mess... but they don't have...
Millet is a high-protein grain that will pressure cook in a flash to tender perfection. The mild, delicately nutty and lightly sweet-tasting millet can replace rice, couscous or quinoa in any recipe.
Tangy, spicy and sweet a chutney can be made in the pressure cooker in just minutes.

We've pressure cooked marmalade and hot sauce - so when my jar of mango chutney was running low and...