Instant Pot Frozen Meals
The recipes below allow you to make 24 meals. Each recipe you can make 4 meals.
Step1. Make sure you have enough containers. If your containers can fit into the instant pot, it can save you more time when heating up. You can just place it directly into the pot and steam it with a cover to prevent condensation. If the dish has sauce, you can just put it in the inner pot. When heating up, hit manuel 5 mins.
Step 2. Clear out freezer space.
Step 3. Make your grocery list and go shopping.
Step 4. You will need 5 hours of cooking time plus 1 hour to prepare all the ingredients. (You might want to split this mission into 2 days work.)
Step 5. Chop all the meats and divide them into containers. Prepare 1st dish ingredients and cook it first. While it's cooking, you can continue on the next dish.
Ingredients:
2 lbs beef flank, cut into cubes
2 tbsp olive oil, 1 onion chopped, 4 sliced sliced fresh ginger, 10 cloves of garlic chopped, 2 anise stars, 1 chilli, 1 tsp Chinese five spice;
2 tbsp Chinese cooking rice wine, 4 tbsp soy sauce, ½ tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 4 cups chicken stock.
Directions:
add 2 tbsp olive oil and beef cubes. Sauté for until beef turns brown.
Add the rest ingredients
Manuel cook for 35 mins. NRP 5 mins and QPR
Serve with rice or noodles.
2. Vegetable and Beef Stew
Ingredients
Instructions
Place all ingredients into inner pot.
Set manually for 35 minutes.
Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.
Remove bay leaf.
Serve with rice or bread.
3. Red Wine Beef Stew
Ingredients
2 pound beef flank, cut into cubes
salt
2 onion, chopped
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2 teaspoon dried thyme
2 cup dry red wine
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2 pound turnips, cut into 1 inch pieces
2 pound carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces (or you can skip this and add 2 more pounds of turnips)
Half cup soy sauce
Half cup dried parsley
Instructions
1. Put all the ingredients in the inner pot, except the flour.
2. Press manual 35 mins. Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.
3. Add flour liquid in.
4. Serve with rice or bread
Pork Ribs with Garlic and Bamboo Shoots
Ingredients:
1) 20 spare ribs.
2) 1 can winter shoots;
3) 2 tbsp
olive oil, 6 slices of fresh ginger, 4 green onion chopped, 10 cloves garlic, 2 star anises
4) 2 tbsp cooking wine, 7tbsp
dark soy sauce, 1 tsp salt, 3 tsp sugar, 6 tbsp water;
5) 2 tsp
sesame oil.
Directions:
- Heat 1 tbsp olive oil. Sauté ginger, green onion, garlic and star anise for about 1 minute.
- Add all ingredients.
- Press manual 35 mins. Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.
Ingredients:
1) 20 ribs
2) 2 tbsp
olive oil, 8 slices of fresh ginger, 2 green onion chopped, 2 star anise, 2 cloves.
5) 1.5 tbsp chilli powder or paprika. 3 tsp red yeast rice (optional)
4) 2 tbsp cooking wine, 4 tbsp
soy sauce, 1/2 tsp salt, 3 tbsps sugar, 4 tbsp water
Directions:
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Add 1 tbsp oil, Saute green onion, ginger, anise and cloves for 1 minute. Then add the rest of the ingredients.
- Press manual 35 mins. Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.
Meat Balls 醬燒肉丸
Ingredients-A
Ground pork 2lbs
1 onion Chopped (You can use green onion too)
Ginger 4 slices
Garlic-6
Sauce ingredients
Soy sauce 8 tbsp
Rice cooking wine 8 tbsp
Corn starch -1 tbsp
Salt 2 tea spoons
Ingredients -b
Chicken stock-2 cups
Soy sauce ½ cup
Mirn 4 tbsp
Sugar-1 tbsp
Dried onion-2 tbsp.
Direction
- Mix ingredients A and make into balls
- Put ingredients B and pork balls into the pot.
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Press “Manual” button and set 20 minutes of cooking time.
- Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure
Finally, freeze them into containers! Remember to label them.
