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.

Bak Kut Teh (Pork Rib Tea Soup) 肉骨茶

Check this link out to find out more about this dish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_kut_teh

Ingredients:

Ribs- 1.5 lbs
Ginger-3 slices

Garlic -5

Red chili-2 ( Use a knife to press the chili. So when you cook them, the flavour will come out)

Mushrooms-10 (optional)

Taiwanese Cabbages (optional)

Water 1500cc

(You can also add 6 dried Shitake mushrooms (soaked and cut into halves) or a handful of tofu puffs)

Seasoning:

Soy sauce paste-2 big teaspoons

pre-packed Bak Kut Teh herbs -1 pack (I got mine from T&T.)

Rice wine-2 big teaspoons

Method:

1. Boil a pot of water, cook ribs. When they are cooked, take them out and rinse with cold water. (Cleaning process, so when your dish is done, there are no black or gray bubbles at the side of the pot. By doing so, the presentation of your dish will look better and it’s cleaner.)

2. Prepare a pot and add 1500cc water (about 6 cups of water). Add ginger, garlic and chili, Bak Kut teh tea bag, mushrooms, cabbages and all the seasoning ingredients into the pot. Cover the lid and cook with high heat, when it starts to bubble, you can turn to medium low heat and cook it for 1 hr or until the ribs are soft.

3.  Add salt

4. Serve (You can also cool it down to room temperature and then put it in the refrigerator overnight. You will be able to see the fat on top. You can scoop them out, and it will become a low fat dish.)

5.  Serve (You can serve this with rice. Or cook some noodles and mix with the Bak Kut Teh stew soup and become Bak kut Teh Noodles soup. )

This package is imported from Taiwan. You can aso go to Chinese supermarket or Chinese herb stores to buy other brand of  Bak Kut Teh tea bag.

The herbs and spices:  Black dates, Radix Rehmanniae, Polygonatum Odoratum, Angelica Acutiloba, Szechwan Lovage Rhizome,Cinnamon, Fennel, White Pepper, Liquorice and Anise . 

*Pregnant women are not recommended for eating this dish.

Ribs W/ Onion Gravy

Ingredients:

Potato-2 (Chop them into small pieces. After you chop them, remember to soak them in cool water, so it won't change its colour)

Carrot-1

Lipton Onion pouch-1

Flour-2 teaspoons

Green Vegetables

Pork Ribs-1 pound

Method:

1. Wash the ribs and dry it with a paper towel.

2. Mix the pouch with 2 teaspoon flour. Sir in 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat.

2. Prepare a pan. Heat the pan and add the ribs. Cook it with medium high heat. (Notice I don't add any oil because after you cook the ribs, the fat will come out of the meat)

3. When the ribs turn into golden color, you add the gravy you made. Cover the pot and cook it for 1 hr with low heat.

4. Add potatos and carrots into the pot. Cook it for another 30 mins with low heat.

5. Add green vegetables. Cook until the veggies are done.

6. Serve with rice.



Bitter Melon With Pork Ribs

Ingredients:

Pork Ribs-900g

Bitter Melon-2

Method:

1.      Marinate ribs with 4tbsp sauce for 2 hrs.

2.      Clean the seeds of the bitter melon with a spoon. Make sure the white parts inside are  cleaned. So it won’t be as bitter. Chop them into small pieces.

3.      Heat the pan and add 1 tea spoon of extra virgin olive oil, fry the ribs until the both sides turn gold color.

4.       Add bitter melon into the pan and continue to stir fry them together. Add water into the pan ( make sure the water covers the rib and bitter melon) Cook with high heat. When it’s bubbling, turn them to low heat. Cook until the sauces are almost gone.

5.       Take them out and serve.

Bitter Melon Health Benefits

• Bitter melon is also found to be effective in treating skin diseases or skin infections, eczema, and even skin sores.
• Bitter melon has anti-viral properties and can be used for treating herpes virus.
• One of the other important bitter melon extract benefits is that it can also be used for treating psoriasis.
• It is also used as an purgative and anthelmintic if a person is suffering from jaundice, piles or indigestion. It is widely used for its anti-inflammatory properties.
• Bitter melon is most effective for its detoxifying and cleansing properties.
• Bitter melon helps in lowering blood pressure, blood sugar and also body temperature.
• It is believed that bitter melon extract can be used for treating HIV, although the theory is not proved yet. But it is found that bitter melon works against the negative reactions of HIV medications.
• It is even believed that bitter melon extract can be used against cancer, as it helps in improving cell function of people suffering from cancer.

Satay Ribs -醬燒排骨

Ingredients:

Pork Ribs-400g

Green onions-60g

Ginger-20g

Sauce Ingredients:

Satay Sauce-1big teaspoon

Soy Sauce-4 big teaspoon

Cooking wine-2 Big spoon

Sugar-1small spoon

Water-200cc

Method:

1.      Wash ribs and dry them with paper towel. Chop onions and ginger

2.      Heat the pan and add 1 tea spoon extra virgin olive oil. Cook green onions and ginger with low heat. When you can smell them, add satay sauce.

3.      Add ribs into the pot and cook them until both side turn golden color.

4.      Add all the sauce ingredients and cook them with high heat first. When it’s bubbling turn it to low heat. Continue to cook for 40 mins with cover on.

5.      When the sauce is almost absorbed, turn off the stove.

6.      Serve

Ribs with Japanese Teriyaki sauce-照燒（照り焼き，てりやき），排骨

Ribs with Japanese Teriyaki sauce-照燒（照り焼き，てりやき），排骨

Ingredients:

Ribs -800g

Onion-1medium size (chop them into small slices)

Garlic-2 (Chop them into small slices)

Sauce Ingredients:

Teriyaki sauce-7 big teaspoons (I will show you how to make the sauce below)

Water-200ml (make sure the water cover the ribs)

Method:

1.       Wash the ribs and dry them with a paper towel

2.       Heat the pan; add 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil. Fry ribs until both sides turn into gold color. Then, take them out

3.       Use the same pan, continue to cook garlic and onions until you can smell them

4.       Add the cooked ribs back and add all the sauce ingredients

5.       Cook them with high heat first until they start to bubble. Then, turn it to medium low heat and cook until the ribs are soft.

Teriyaki Sauce

Ingredients:

Soy sauce -100ml

Mirin-100ml

Brown Sugar-2 Big teaspoon

Dried Bonito Flakes-8g

Method:

1.       Cook Soy sauce, Mirin and Brown Sugar with high heat until it starts to bubble. Turn to low heat and cook for 10 mins( or until it becomes thick)

2.       Add dried bonito flakes into the pot and turn off the heat. Let it sit until all the dried bonito flakes sink into the pot.

3.       Filter the sauce and get rid of the bonito flakes

4.       Done. (put them in a glass bottle and refrigerate. It can last for 1 month. )