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Good Housekeeping Instant Pot® Cookbook: 60 Delicious Foolproof Recipes (Good Food Guaranteed Book 15)
From the test kitchens of America’s iconic lifestyle magazine, quick and easy multicooker recipes officially authorized by Instant Pot—includes photos.With its 6-in-1 capabilities, the Instant Pot® saves time and space in the kitchen—and once you try it you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. It can pressure cook, slow cook, make rice and yogurt, double as a sauté pan, and keep your food warm so you’ll put a delicious dinner on the table quickly and easily. Who better than the experts Good Housekeeping to explain exactly how to use this miracle machine? In addition to a primer filled with all the basics you’ll need to know and Test Kitchen tips, it features 60 family-friendly, triple-tested dishes that range from Quick Coq au Vin and Carnitas Tacos to Pulled BBQ Beef and Weeknight Tuscan Ragu.
195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 2, 2018
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1,051 books47 followersThe Good Housekeeping Institute was created to provide readers of Good Housekeeping magazine with expert consumer advice and delicious, classic and contemporary east-to-follow recipes. These ideals still hold true today. The institute team are all experienced cooks, home economists and consumer researchers. They test the lastest products in purpose-built, modern kitchens, where every recipe published in the magazine and its range of bestselling cookery books is rigorously tested so that you can cook any Good Housekeeping dish with confidence.
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October 7, 2022
I’ve been cooking from this cookbook for a few years and every recipe I have tried has been a winner. There are lots of unique flavor profiles and cuisines represented. The one downside is that like 2/3 of the recipes they’ve written to be used on the slow cook function- which I don’t really understand why they would do that for an explicitly Instant Pot cookbook. But all of those recipes can be converted for pressure cooking so it’s only small adjustments that are needed.
April 28, 2018
I checked this book out of the library. It was okay and I would check it out again but I would not want to buy this.
September 14, 2020
Too many slow cooker function recipes in this book. There are about 15 recipes I’m willing to try, mostly bean and rice recipes.
January 4, 2018
The Instant Pot has become the go-to kitchen tool for people with busy lifestyles. After extensive testing, the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen partnered with Instant Pot to create the Good Housekeeping Instant Pot Cookbook with 60 foolproof recipes.
One of the best things about reviewing a Good Housekeeping Cookbook is that they always make sure you’re prepared. The beginning of this book gives you the Instant Pot Guide. Including Instant Pot Preparation, Pressure Cooking In The Instant Pot, and Instant Pot Safety Tips, this is an invaluable resource. They even include a Cooking Program Options Chart which gives you the information about which program to choose, what mode, cooking options, and notes.
The first chapter is Basic Recipes. Here you find Stock, Broth, Sauce, and Eggs. Each of the recipes includes a brief introduction, Active Time, Total Time, and Quantity. Nutritional Information, Calories, Protein, Carbohydrates, Fats, Fiber, and Sodium are also included. As always with Good Housekeeping recipes they are very straightforward and very specific.
About half of the recipes include a full-page picture, many also included a tip. For instance, I was not aware that if you leave the peel on the onion when you’re cooking a chicken broth it will make it a more golden color. And since you are going to be straining the broth at the end it doesn’t matter if you leave it on or not, so why bother with the extra step?
The second chapter of recipes is Beans And Grains. It’s here you’ll find various Bean Recipes, Lentils, Risotto, Rice, even a Basic Bulgar, and Oatmeal. The rice recipe describes how to make a Basic Rice, then includes several flavor variations which you can add.
Chapter 3 covers Soups, Stews, And Chilies. There’s a lot of variety here, even a nice Kielbasa Stew and a Beer Braised Beef Stew. While most recipes in this section take several hours, most have an active time of under 30 minutes.
Chicken is covered in chapter 4. Including a Moroccan Chicken Tagine, Chicken Cacciatore, and Thai Chicken, there is something here for everyone. The Chicken With Walnut Herb Sauce will ensure you never want to eat a store-bought rotisserie chicken again.
Beef, Lamb, And Pork are covered in chapter 5. From a Quick Weekend Tuscan Ragu to Ribs, Wraps, and even Brisket, everything is covered. Most of the recipes do take more than an hour, sometimes up to 10 hours, to cook but the active cooking time in most is less than half an hour.
An excellent index is included along with metric conversion charts for measurements. I especially like how they triple test each of the recipes in order to make sure that they can all be created as printed.
Attention To Detail Is Excellent
Even though there are only 60 recipes, the variety of is excellent in this book. The attention to detail is excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to many others from Good Housekeeping.
See the full review and the recipe for Quicker Coq Au Vin Blanc at The RecipesNow! Reviews And Recipes Magazine. This review is written in response to a complimentary hard copy of the book provided by the publisher in hopes of an honest review.
One of the best things about reviewing a Good Housekeeping Cookbook is that they always make sure you’re prepared. The beginning of this book gives you the Instant Pot Guide. Including Instant Pot Preparation, Pressure Cooking In The Instant Pot, and Instant Pot Safety Tips, this is an invaluable resource. They even include a Cooking Program Options Chart which gives you the information about which program to choose, what mode, cooking options, and notes.
The first chapter is Basic Recipes. Here you find Stock, Broth, Sauce, and Eggs. Each of the recipes includes a brief introduction, Active Time, Total Time, and Quantity. Nutritional Information, Calories, Protein, Carbohydrates, Fats, Fiber, and Sodium are also included. As always with Good Housekeeping recipes they are very straightforward and very specific.
About half of the recipes include a full-page picture, many also included a tip. For instance, I was not aware that if you leave the peel on the onion when you’re cooking a chicken broth it will make it a more golden color. And since you are going to be straining the broth at the end it doesn’t matter if you leave it on or not, so why bother with the extra step?
The second chapter of recipes is Beans And Grains. It’s here you’ll find various Bean Recipes, Lentils, Risotto, Rice, even a Basic Bulgar, and Oatmeal. The rice recipe describes how to make a Basic Rice, then includes several flavor variations which you can add.
Chapter 3 covers Soups, Stews, And Chilies. There’s a lot of variety here, even a nice Kielbasa Stew and a Beer Braised Beef Stew. While most recipes in this section take several hours, most have an active time of under 30 minutes.
Chicken is covered in chapter 4. Including a Moroccan Chicken Tagine, Chicken Cacciatore, and Thai Chicken, there is something here for everyone. The Chicken With Walnut Herb Sauce will ensure you never want to eat a store-bought rotisserie chicken again.
Beef, Lamb, And Pork are covered in chapter 5. From a Quick Weekend Tuscan Ragu to Ribs, Wraps, and even Brisket, everything is covered. Most of the recipes do take more than an hour, sometimes up to 10 hours, to cook but the active cooking time in most is less than half an hour.
An excellent index is included along with metric conversion charts for measurements. I especially like how they triple test each of the recipes in order to make sure that they can all be created as printed.
Attention To Detail Is Excellent
Even though there are only 60 recipes, the variety of is excellent in this book. The attention to detail is excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to many others from Good Housekeeping.
See the full review and the recipe for Quicker Coq Au Vin Blanc at The RecipesNow! Reviews And Recipes Magazine. This review is written in response to a complimentary hard copy of the book provided by the publisher in hopes of an honest review.
August 30, 2018
As Instant Pots become ever so popular in home kitchens, there are many recently published cookbooks that claim to specialize in preparing meals using this multipurpose device. I have grown to be skeptical of these cookbooks after purchasing two but not feeling very satisfied w8th either. America’s Test Kitchen has published a small volume containing very few recipes in it (compared to other ATK’s books). Those recipes are very conservative, cautious and borderline boring. Another Instant Pot cookbook I own is average at best. The recipes are hit or miss; as flavourful as the products can be, some turn out to be too watery or tough even though the dishes are prepared strictly following the recipes without alterations.
What I like about this Instant Pot cookbook by Good Housekeeping right off the bat is the Cooking Program Options Chart. The chart concisely corresponds the available programs and modes on the Instant Pot to products outcomes that can be expected by the users. This chart would have been tremendously helpful in times when I could not decide what settings to use for cooking specific items.
Another aspect I like about this book is the variety in recipes it offers. Most other Instant Pot cookbooks I have flipped through usually include dishes that are meat-heavy and for the lack of a better team, “Western”. This book, on the other hand, offers a large grain/pulses section and an interesting soup section. Here are some of the recipes I’d love to try for myself:
Hoppin’ John (a delicious-looking rice and black-eyed peas mixture) - pressure
Tuscan white beans and sage (with bacon served over rice) - pressure
Thai chicken and noodle - slow
Latin chicken with black bean and sweet potato - slow
Quicker Coq au Vin Blanc - pressure
Chicken with walnut herb sauce - slow
Tangy BBQ chicken - slow
Spicy sesame beef rice bowls - pressure
Based on reading through the book along, I give it 3 stars.
What I like about this Instant Pot cookbook by Good Housekeeping right off the bat is the Cooking Program Options Chart. The chart concisely corresponds the available programs and modes on the Instant Pot to products outcomes that can be expected by the users. This chart would have been tremendously helpful in times when I could not decide what settings to use for cooking specific items.
Another aspect I like about this book is the variety in recipes it offers. Most other Instant Pot cookbooks I have flipped through usually include dishes that are meat-heavy and for the lack of a better team, “Western”. This book, on the other hand, offers a large grain/pulses section and an interesting soup section. Here are some of the recipes I’d love to try for myself:
Hoppin’ John (a delicious-looking rice and black-eyed peas mixture) - pressure
Tuscan white beans and sage (with bacon served over rice) - pressure
Thai chicken and noodle - slow
Latin chicken with black bean and sweet potato - slow
Quicker Coq au Vin Blanc - pressure
Chicken with walnut herb sauce - slow
Tangy BBQ chicken - slow
Spicy sesame beef rice bowls - pressure
Based on reading through the book along, I give it 3 stars.
January 4, 2020
I purchased this book at Barnes and Noble for 50% off, so for $8.50 it was a good deal.
The value of any cook book is the quality of recipes- are the directions clear? Are the ingredients readily available, and most importantly, when followed exactly as described how do the recipes turn out?
Thur far I have made 2 of the recipes and overall I am pleased.
1) Southwestern Chicken Stew- 4 stars- this recipe combines chicken with chili chipotle flavors, and for a twist is mixed in Spaghetti. The chicken itself was delicious tender and smokey flavorful. However in a desire to use one pot, the recipe required that the dry spaghetti be cooked in the chipotle sauce. The inability to rinse the cooked spaghetti led to a starchy gooey mess. Would make it again and just cook the spaghetti separately.
2) Sesame Garlic chicken. This recipe is for making the chicken then serving it with SEPARATELY cooked broccoli and rice. It was delicious, PF Chang quality and will become a part of our regular rotations.
Im looking forward to trying more of the recipes. I recommend this book.
The value of any cook book is the quality of recipes- are the directions clear? Are the ingredients readily available, and most importantly, when followed exactly as described how do the recipes turn out?
Thur far I have made 2 of the recipes and overall I am pleased.
1) Southwestern Chicken Stew- 4 stars- this recipe combines chicken with chili chipotle flavors, and for a twist is mixed in Spaghetti. The chicken itself was delicious tender and smokey flavorful. However in a desire to use one pot, the recipe required that the dry spaghetti be cooked in the chipotle sauce. The inability to rinse the cooked spaghetti led to a starchy gooey mess. Would make it again and just cook the spaghetti separately.
2) Sesame Garlic chicken. This recipe is for making the chicken then serving it with SEPARATELY cooked broccoli and rice. It was delicious, PF Chang quality and will become a part of our regular rotations.
Im looking forward to trying more of the recipes. I recommend this book.
January 12, 2019
Well, Good Housekeeping is a reputed leading lifestyle media brand, A recipe book coming from them is triple tested, which means there are very fewer chances to fail while trying.
Beautiful cover page, followed by instructions to use Instant Pot. I enjoyed making vegetable broth, Indian style lentils, and vegan black bean soup. I loved how they made a table for IP cooking program options. Each recipe is well explained with instructions to follow.
At the same time, I was disappointed to see many slow cooker recipes. For slow cooking already slow cooker is in the market, IP is something where you want to cook without fuss and fast. I was expecting all IP recipes only. Still, this book is a great buy in IP cooking category.
Beautiful cover page, followed by instructions to use Instant Pot. I enjoyed making vegetable broth, Indian style lentils, and vegan black bean soup. I loved how they made a table for IP cooking program options. Each recipe is well explained with instructions to follow.
At the same time, I was disappointed to see many slow cooker recipes. For slow cooking already slow cooker is in the market, IP is something where you want to cook without fuss and fast. I was expecting all IP recipes only. Still, this book is a great buy in IP cooking category.
April 16, 2024
it’s really good
So I would say 90% of these recipes are definitely approach able and easy to do. I wish it was more pressure cooking but it goes through some of the various functions it’s good
So I would say 90% of these recipes are definitely approach able and easy to do. I wish it was more pressure cooking but it goes through some of the various functions it’s good
May 15, 2018
Great recipes, just wished they had included both slow and pressure versions instead of either or.
October 25, 2018
May be useful if you are a beginner but the recipes were less sophisticated and interesting than I was expecting and hoping for.
February 24, 2019
#Not Impressed.
I read this as an ebook and the formatting was so bad it was not readable.
I read this as an ebook and the formatting was so bad it was not readable.
February 25, 2019
I like this series of cookbooks. Great ideas!
March 21, 2019
Eh it seemed basic and could use more pictures
October 28, 2020
Recipes are not things my family would eat. There are a lot of ingredients included and most of the recipes are not that fast. There were also a lot of spicy dishes.
May 12, 2021
There are more slow cooker recipes than pressure cooker recipes. I have had a slow cooker since my first Crock Pot in 1976. I have had my new Instant Pot for a week. I am disappointed.
February 22, 2022
I found a few great recipes in this book. Chicken tikka masala. Yum!
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July 30, 2018I wanted to check out a few Instant Pot cookbooks even though there are so many recipes available for free on various blogs and I have plenty of Pinterest links. I requested a few basic seeming ones from the library to get a feel for what is around.
I generally like Good Housekeeping recipe books because they triple test with different brands of ingredients and equipment (although this is specifically an Instant Pot branded book) and the pictures are always helpful, not just pretty. I wish every recipe had a picture. There are a mix of pressure cooker and slow cooker recipes, I can see that being nice for using your Instant Pot to the fullest, but they are mixed in enough that I didn't always check and then would get surprised at "cook for eight hours" in the recipe. Some of the copy was eyeroll worthy as well, I won't look up the exact quote, but some of the slow cooker recipes were described as quick and easy when it has a (mostly inactive) cooking time of ten hours.
This is more of a criticism of any of these cookbooks and even blogs than this specific one, but I'm not sure the Instant Pot is being properly used as a convenience item when there are several recipes that use the saute function, then pressure cooks, then asks you to do something else on the stove or oven, like brown skin or make a grain. I'm really looking for recipes that take full advantage of the pressure cooker and do what I can't on the stove with just more time. Perhaps I will be fully swayed by the set it and forget it aspect that doesn't need stirring once my second baby comes any week now.
Unless you really like owning cookbooks, I wouldn't suggest this as a purchase, it's basic enough that I think many similar recipes can be found for free elsewhere, but I do highly recommend taking this out of the library like I did, just to try a few.
I generally like Good Housekeeping recipe books because they triple test with different brands of ingredients and equipment (although this is specifically an Instant Pot branded book) and the pictures are always helpful, not just pretty. I wish every recipe had a picture. There are a mix of pressure cooker and slow cooker recipes, I can see that being nice for using your Instant Pot to the fullest, but they are mixed in enough that I didn't always check and then would get surprised at "cook for eight hours" in the recipe. Some of the copy was eyeroll worthy as well, I won't look up the exact quote, but some of the slow cooker recipes were described as quick and easy when it has a (mostly inactive) cooking time of ten hours.
This is more of a criticism of any of these cookbooks and even blogs than this specific one, but I'm not sure the Instant Pot is being properly used as a convenience item when there are several recipes that use the saute function, then pressure cooks, then asks you to do something else on the stove or oven, like brown skin or make a grain. I'm really looking for recipes that take full advantage of the pressure cooker and do what I can't on the stove with just more time. Perhaps I will be fully swayed by the set it and forget it aspect that doesn't need stirring once my second baby comes any week now.
Unless you really like owning cookbooks, I wouldn't suggest this as a purchase, it's basic enough that I think many similar recipes can be found for free elsewhere, but I do highly recommend taking this out of the library like I did, just to try a few.
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