Instant Pot Frozen Meals-24 meals

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.

1. Five spice beef 五香牛肉

Ingredients:

1. 2 lbs beef flank, cut into cubes
2. 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;
3. 2 tbsp Chinese cooking rice wine, 4 tbsp  soy sauce, ½ tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 4 cups chicken stock.

Directions:

1. add 2 tbsp olive oil and beef cubes. Sauté for until beef turns brown.
2. Add the rest ingredients  
3. Manuel cook for 35 mins. NRP 5 mins and QPR
4. Serve with rice or noodles.

2. Vegetable and Beef Stew

Ingredients

• 3 cups dice Carrot
• 2 cups dice Celery
• 4 cups Baby Potato cut them into half

• 1 dice Onion
• 5 Garlic Cloves
• 4 ½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon Thyme, Dried
• 1 teaspoon Basil, Dried
• 1 whole Bay Leaf
• ½ teaspoons Black Pepper
• 2 pounds Beef flank
• Two big tomatoes
• Two cups chicken stock
• Salt

Instructions

1. Place all ingredients into inner pot.
2. Set manually for 35 minutes.
3. Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.
4. Remove bay leaf.
5. Serve with rice or bread.

3. Red Wine Beef Stew

Ingredients

• 2 pound beef flank, cut into cubes
• salt
• 2 onion, chopped
• 4 tablespoons white flour mix with water
• 2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 2 cup dry red wine
• 2 cup chicken stock
• 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:

1. Heat 1 tbsp olive oil. Sauté ginger, green onion, garlic and star anise for about 1 minute.
2. Add all ingredients.
3. Press manual 35 mins. Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.

5. Spicy Ribs

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:

1. Add 1 tbsp oil, Saute green onion, ginger, anise and cloves for 1 minute. Then add the rest of the ingredients.
2. 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.
• 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.