American Heart Association Instant & Healthy: 100 Low-Fuss, High-Flavor Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker and Instant Pot®

by American Heart Association

Get healthy in an instant! These 100 recipes show how to use your Instant Pot(R) to make heart-healthy, fuss-free, delicious meals.

The Instant Pot(R)--a pressure cooker that does the work of seven other appliances--has inspired home cooks with its versatility, speed, and consistently delicious results. And now, the American Heart Association offers the ultimate guide to using your Instant Pot(R) to support a heart-smart diet. Lean meats, whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruits transform into amazing meals in just minutes, and they'll leave you feeling great, too. From appetizers to desserts and everything in between, the 100 recipes in American Heart Association Healthy Instant and Healthy will surprise you with their variety and depth of flavor.

This cookbook includes more than 30 full-color photographs as well as easy-to-follow guides to using your Instant Pot(R) for ultimate health and flavor. The best way to ensure good food comes out of your cooker is to put only good-for-you ingredients into it, and with American Heart Association Healthy Instant and Healthy, you'll learn how much your pot can do for you while you're enjoying a healthy lifestyle.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 2018

Reviews

[Cherei · Rating 5 out of 5]

American Heart Association Instant and Healthy: 100 Low-Fuss, High-Flavor Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker and Instant Pot cookbook has quite a few easy to make recipes. One can have a good meal and also have that same meal be heart healthy! I was delighted with the multiple variety of recipes for everything from breakfast to late night snacks!

I highly recommend this cookbook for those who want quick, heart healthy, delicious meals that will satisfy the taste buds as well as fill one’s stomach! I’d previously read the New American Heart Association book and wondered if this new book would be a smaller compilation of the larger cookbook. NOPE!! These are new recipes!! So, if you loved the earlier cookbooks.. you will most certainly want to add this book to your collection! Personally, I have physical copies.. When it comes to cookbooks.. one just wants a physical copy that you can flip to various locations in the cookbook.

[Tracee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a lot of interesting recipes I haven’t already seen. I’m not a fan of having to pressurize more than one item for a recipe - pressurize the pork and then two other sets of vegetables? I don’t think so, takes too long to pressurize which they don’t seem to take account in the elapsed time count.

They use a lot of canned goods in these recipes, why? When you have a pressure cooker, you have a great way of reconstituting beans quickly. Why not by fresh corn instead of canned corn? At least mention both options

I like more pictures in my cookbook, which this was lacking - not even 10% pictures.

The American Heart Association has a recommendation for healthy chocolate fudge cake so it’s going on my “to try” list.

[Adrianne Haugen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Looks to me a good book for a wide choice of recipes. I am looking forward to a few that I would like to make next week.

[Lynne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tips and yummy recipes

[Aprilleigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

There aren't a lot of unique recipes here, but the versions presented in this book are often healthier than those found in other cookbooks. I say try them both and then carefully compare the two versions to find a middle ground that satisfies your taste buds if this version doesn't.

The book starts with the usual brief information about the Instant Pot and accessories before moving into a discussion of eating and living well. There's a couple of pages about the assumptions and standards they used to generate the nutrition data which will be important if you need to carefully watch those details.

The recipes run from simple basics (hummus, beef stock, mashed potatoes, and grits) to hearty snacks and meals (sweet potato nachos, salmon en papillote, beef stroganoff, pork loin with fennel and mustard, Louisiana red beans and rice, and a Denver omelet). Each recipe includes total time, servings (and serving size, which many other cookbooks omit), and a good amount of nutrition information (including dietary exchanges). Not every recipe has a photo - less than half. There aren't a lot of specialty ingredients, but they pop up here and there. The recipes in the Vegetables & Side Dishes chapter include suggestions for what to serve it with, as do some of the recipes scattered throughout the other chapters. There's also a nice selection of vegetarian entrées and even a few desserts. There's enough variety here to have something for everyone, and with 100 recipes (I count 101) you shouldn't get bored for a little while, even if you don't want to try quite as many as I do.