I’ve made that butter chicken recipe with unsweetened coconut milk. It was a big hit. I also got her IP Indian cooking cookbook. http://a.co/jcOjAj4
Hmmm…I need a quick recipe for dinner tonight…working today but son and his wife are coming for dinner…MY H is very picky and doesn’t like a lot of spice…but I want it!!! Will give the butter chicken a consideration!
@4beardolls @Corinthian - I am considering buying her cookbook. Is it worth it ?
I also was concerned about adding 1/2 cup of coconut oil as it seemed like such a large amount of fat. We don’t use much butter or any solid fat for that matter. I wanted to use unsweetened coconut milk but the store was out of it. I thought the coconut oil added a nice flavor. I did put half the sauce in the freezer. When I roasted my side vegetables I added a Serrano chili pepper for my H. He cut that up and added it on top of his butter chicken to make it hotter.
@abasket - will your H tolerate any spice. After cooking you take the chicken out and finish preparing the sauce. Maybe if you left some chicken aside and not add it all back to the sauce it wouldn’t be as spiced.
It would put a damper on my cooking if my H didn’t like much of what I enjoyed cooking. There are things he won’t eat that I would like but for the most part we are pretty compatible. I can actually handle less “hot” spice. He keeps a bottle of habenaro sauce in the refrigerator that he puts on a lot of his food.
Yeah, I’m a very adventurous eater - he cramps my style sometimes!!! I do think I’m going to make the recipe tonight and will figure out some accommodations for him!!
@mom60 The cookbook looks good. Recipes for popular Indian dishes like Chana Masala, Chicken Biryani, Chicken Korma, Chicken Vindaloo, Chicken Tikka Masala, lots of recipes for lentils and lots of vegetable and vegetarian options. When I have made the butter chicken, I’ve used butter but replaced the heavy cream with unsweetened coconut milk. I’m somewhat dairy intolerant but usually butter doesn’t bother me. Heavy cream however is another story and something I avoid.
I’m planning on trying this beef stew recipe tonight (with a few tweaks – adding potatoes, some beef broth and rosemary). https://pinchofyum.com/instant-pot-beef-stew/comment-page-3#comments Has anyone tried this yet?
^^ I went ahead and made this beef stew recipe tonight and it was a big win! In addition to adding potatoes and fresh rosemary I also changed it by browning the beef first, sauteeing the onions with some garlic, and adding some tomato paste and 1/4 cup of beef broth. I also thickened it with a slurry of corn starch and 1/4 beef broth at the end instead of the tapioca. It was really delicious and so easy.
I eat most anything - but for the life of me I have always been turned off by “stew” - but glad you liked it!
I made the New Yorker butter chicken tonight for my son and DIL. They LOVED it. Just gave H some leftovers - I offered the butter chicken but he looked at me like I was nuts! I cut down on the spices a bit just because I was concerned it would be too spicy for them…for myself I could have used more (or the recommended amount) of spice.
I used butter instead of coconut oil but I did use coconut milk. Served over one of the Costco rice/quinoa/grain blends and made a cucumber/pepper/onion/carrot/feta salad!
https://heatherlikesfood.com/instant-pot-cheesy-potato-soup/
I made this for dinner tonight…easy…quick and delicious!
I’m not always one for a heavier soup or potato soup in general but that does look pretty good! Did you put the dill in? That’s the one thing I don’t always have on hand.
Yes…I put the dill in. But it probably would be fine with just the Worcestershire sauce and paprika. I used plain old paprika…not smoked.
It was not a heavy soup because you don’t purée the soup after it cooks.
Also, with the potato cheese soup…I used whole milk, not half and half.
Good article – and pretty much nails it, though not in the joyful way that I love my IP. (“This is not an Instant Pot; it’s a hands-off pot”).
I live alone. I am horrible at planning meals and moody/fickle in any event. And I have burned so much food onto saucepot bottoms because I left something to simmer on the stove and then promptly forgot about it,that I long ago lost count. (Though I did become an expert at cleaning off all the baked on food).
The IP doensn’t require thinking. It is also enormously forgiving. The food might get mushier but it doesn’t get burnt.
I can be at the grocery store at 6pm and decide that I would like to have white bean soup for dinner, and pick up a package of dried beans and some chicken … and dump it all in when get home…and sure enough… there’s dinner.
It can be close to 9pm when I get around to cooking and I can pull a chicken breast out of the freezer, and then microwave up some veggies after the IP beeps and pressure is realising… and once again dinner. (And a decided improvement over the old Lean Cuisine habit – also a good go-to when there isn’t time to start from scratch… but even the IP chicken breasts are far from perfect , they are still better than the frozen-dinner versions I lived with for so long).
So no, it’s not “instant”… and it probably is not much fun for people who love to cook – but it is a godsend for those of us who don’t have much time for prepping the food and tending to it as it cooks.
I love the hands off aspect of it so much. I don’t have the patience for NPR, so unless the recipe requires it, a towel gets thrown over the vent, and off we go. 
I love to cook, and also love the Instant Pot. It does what it does so well and so easily.
Anything that gets people making food at home and it’s not packaged is good with me. I also like the meals in a box idea. As it gets people cooking.
I’ve had my 8 qt IP for three years now and am thrilled with how popular it’s become recently. Many of my family members have finally gotten one and are interested in talking about and sharing recipes. Where were they three years ago when I was so excited by it? I now have three IPs in my house (2) 8 qts and a mini. I love the mini for the smaller every day jobs like eggs, rice, steel cut oats. My soups, stews, and other full meals go in the 8 qt. Lots of Facebook groups dedicated to the IP. Also a couple Instagram accounts too.
I made a chicken with wild rice and dried cranberries the other night. It was great!
^^^ No fair telling if you don’t share the recipe!!!