5-Ingredient Instant Pot Recipes for Easy Meals

Use your multicooker to make the most of a small number of ingredients. These 5-ingredient Instant Pot recipes prove that you can coax a lot of flavor out of a few items … and one appliance. So gather the kitchen staples—oil, salt, pepper, and butter—and a few other ingredients to whip up a low-fuss few-ingredient Instant Pot recipe for every meal and snack in the day.

Pressure Cooker Beef and Broccoli

Number of Ingredients: 5

Sure, you could order takeout. Or you could customize this 5-ingredient Instant Pot recipe with your desired spice level, beef cut, and gluten-free sauce components (use coconut aminos instead of soy sauce). If you don't mind going over the ingredient count, serve this few ingredient meal on a bed of cooked brown rice or cauliflower rice.

Pressure Cooker Peaches-and-Cream Breakfast Quinoa

Number of Ingredients: 5

Instant oatmeal, you have some protein-packed and peachy competition. This 5-ingredient Instant Pot recipe works on even the busiest mornings, especially since it takes only 1 minute to cook. Come summer, craft the quinoa recipe with fresh stone fruit; in winter, frozen peaches work.

Pressure Cooker Caramelized-Onion Jam

Number of Ingredients: 4

No more stirring on the stove for an hour or more to make homemade jam. This less-than-5-ingredient Instant Pot recipe for DIY speedy jam (one of our seven favorite surprising Instant Pot tricks) essentially prepares itself after you add the ingredients. Come cocktail party time, slather atop goat cheese crostinis for a restaurant copycat appetizer.

Pressure Cooker Bacon Deviled Eggs

Number of Ingredients: 5

Go ahead, reconcile your relationship with deviled eggs. They're not that complicated when you have this 5-ingredient Instant Pot recipe in your arsenal. First, steam the eggs in the appliance for an easier peel of your hard-boiled eggs, then mix the yolks with mayo, mustard, and chives. If that's not irresistible enough, top them with crumbled bacon for snack heaven.

Number of Ingredients: 5

Pressure Cooker Lemon and Dill Fish Packets

Number of Ingredients: 4

An Instant Pot recipe with fewer than 5 ingredients, creates incredibly flaky fish, and has zero clean up time? The Test Kitchen pros lured us in with those promises. The lemon-dill flavors sweeten the deal.

You knew the Instant Pot was making your cooking life easier, but recipes calling for so few ingredients (read: little prep) mean you barely have to be in the kitchen at all.