Try A New Instant Pot Recipe Every Weekend
by rbczheng
Cooking & Baking Journey Overview
Follow this step-by-step cooking & baking journey to see real progress updates, challenges overcome, and practical experience.
Progress Updates (10 total)
Update #1: Try A New Instant Pot Recipe Every Weekend
Why: to eat healthier, more consistent, and save money
How: by cooking a new recipe every weekend, and rate it out of 10
Completion: find 3 recipes that I enjoy, so I can keep cooking them
Update #2: Week 2: Braised Chicken
Less water, 15 minutes for chicken. Meat is still not very seasoned, I think I’m going to marinate everything overnight and dump them into the pot next week. Forgot to take a pic in the pot
Update #3: Week 4: braised chicken thighs
Moved chicken from instant pot into a regular pot. I think I like the texture on the stove top better. Too salty this week- too much soy sauce.
Forgot to take a picture when it was done again
Update #4: Chicken, beef, and tofu curry
Eat 3 proteins at once but only have to cook 1 dish. Sweet potatoe was nice
Update #5: Japanese curry cubes
Used them
Update #6: 红烧排骨
Used new ingredients: baby back ribs
Update #7: Harissa chicken and couscous
Used frozen chicken, yogurt, half a jar of harissa, an onion, and couscous. So much food for less than 15 dollars to make.
Chicken had no taste…. Need to use less water when cooking meat
Update #8: Discovered TJ’s Tomatoe Pasta Sauce
Added pantry pasta sauce to this weekly’s originally barely edible chicken and couscous.
I’ll use this sauce to cook chicken next week instead
Update #9: Skillet Curry Chicken
Cubed chicken thighs with skin on, red onion, and curry cubes. Actually very delicious
Update #10: Last progress: Feeling like I can use an instant pot okay
Able to cook chicken, beef or soup on pressure cooker