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A lot in

a pot

Instant Pot turns your
kitchen into a culinary

laboratory without INSTANT POT
taking up space

by NANCY LESON

Besides, I already have a pressure cooker
JOHN LOK PHOTOGRAPHY M y idea of fun is standing at the (used twice), slow cooker (once) and rice
stove over my latest cooking proj-
cooker (can’t live without it). And with ump-
ect, wooden spoon in hand, burn-
teen brands of yogurt in supermarkets every-
ers ablaze. So when every cook I
knew started evangelizing about the new
where, do I really need to make my own?
So, what finally convinced me to
king of kitchen gizmos—their marvelous
Instant Pot—it was all I could do not to pull
Blame it on “The ‘Butter-Chicken Lady’
my nose out of the air, smell the shallots car- one-pot shop?
Nancy Leson amelizing in my skillet and shout, “I don’t Who Made Indian Cooks Love the Instant
is an award-winning need no stinkin’ Instant Pot!” Pot”—a New Yorker magazine profile of
food writer, radio “I don’t care if it slices, dices or makes Urvashi Pitre, whose remarkable recipe
personality, cooking julienne fries!” I’d insist as friends extolled for murgh makhani (aka butter chicken),
instructor and public
speaker. Follow her the glories of Rˆ-Dˆ’s culinary cousin: “Oh, prepared in under an hour, was my gateway
at nancyleson.com the cheesecake!” “Taste these quick-cooked drug. That one-pot wonder, a soothing
and @nancyleson. beans!” “Huh? You still don’t have one?” curry-in-a-hurry infused with a flavor bomb
My sturdy argument: I enjoy the tactile of spices, instantly crowned me as a convert.
pleasures of cooking, have time on my hands I was just getting started.
and don’t mind washing an extra pot. In Next, I used my Instant Pot to hard-
short, I do not need a pressure-cooker- cook eggs that slip magically from their
slow-cooker-rice-cooker-steamer-basket- shells, and to prepare perfectly fluffy quinoa
COSTCO sauté-pan-easy-bake-oven-and-yogurt- with the press of a button (OK, two). My
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maker-in-one. husband’s jaw dropped as he spooned up a
The Instant Pot spectacular beef barley soup, pressure-
Nova Plus 6-Quart cooked in an hour. Mine nearly hit the floor
9-in-1 Multi-Use
Pressure Cooker,
Item #1226685, is Instant Pot lessons

available in ware- steamed broccoli). Others Broth” and go about your
houses and on (artichokes!) rock the Instant business. Cool. Strain. Freeze.
Costco.com. Several Here are a few tips to make Pot (IP). To my thinking, the IP Feed the chicken bits to the
Instant Pot cookbooks the most of your Instant Pot. wins out for recipes with dog.
are also available • “Instant” is relative. Many sturdier ingredients and • Know your Instant Pot
in the warehouse,
including one by recipes don’t factor in the longer cooking times. needs: With many models
Urvashi Pitre, aka the time it takes to bring the unit • Chicken carcasses make available, consider the size of
Butter-Chicken Lady. up to pressure. excellent stock. Just add your family, cooking style,
• Some things are better water and heed your inner storage space and budget.
prepared on a stovetop (see: pot’s fi ll line. Press “Soup/ —NL
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