25 Healthy Instant Pot Recipes (2024)

Looking for a quick and easy weeknight pasta? This healthy Instant Pot spaghetti recipe is for when you just don’t want to have to think about dinner. And the flavor? Take it from one of our readers, who said: “Oh my, I scraped the bowl clean on this one! The flavor was awesome and it was so easy.” Scroll down for the recipe!

Next up in these favorite healthy Instant Pot recipes: chili! This vegetarian chili is full of big flavor! Instead of meat, this one features healthy plant-based proteins: two beans and lentils. But it keeps meat-lovers satisfied with lots of spices to make a hearty meal. Load it up with all the toppings for the full experience (use cashew cream for vegan).

This healthy Instant Pot recipe has become a fan favorite! Can you cook pasta in a pressure cooker without it turning to mush? Turns out, you can! This Instant Pot pasta mixes a marinara sauce with creamy goat cheese. It’ssoseriously flavorful and a perfect easyweeknight dinner recipe: it's as simple as throwing a few ingredients in the pot and cooking for 5 minutes.

Here's another fan favorite Instant pot recipe: creamy wild rice soup! This soup is oh so comforting, featuring white beans, carrots, mushrooms and wild rice. And, it’s vegan! It’s naturally creamy using cashews blended with some of the soup to create a silky smooth texture. It makes for a filling and satisfying wild rice soup.

This healthy Instant Pot recipe is so delicious, you won't even remember that you're doing your body! You'll just feel like you're wrapped in a cozy hug. Did we mention it's a totally plant based main dish recipe, too? This vegan lentil soup is ready to amaze you.

This healthy Instant Pot tacos recipe features a smoky lentils and rice filling, spiced with smoked paprika, fennel, onion, and garlic. The recipe cooks up into a meaty, savory mix. Top with fresh veggies, salsa, and crunchy romaine for a tasty and filling plant-powered taco.

Use this Instant Pot sweet potatoes to make whole sweet potatoes that come out perfectly moist! Then follow our Sweet Potatoes with Thai Peanut Butter Sauce recipe, which tops them with a cabbage and bell pepper flaw, fresh cilantro, and a zingy peanut sauce.

Who could pass up Instant Pot loaded potato soup? This one is creamy with intermittent potato chunks, using no heavy cream at all! Old Bay gives it an irresistible undertone. And it’s so easy to make: you don’t even need a blender! Like any good recipe, the best part is the toppings. Load it up with whatever you like: here we used shredded cheese, sour cream, chives, and smoky, saltyvegan bacon.

This healthy Instant Pot split pea soup recipe is the ultimate meal! It’s filling, plant based, and easy to make in a pressure cooker. This tasty dinner recipe is full of cozy, lightly smoky flavor. And all that's required is chopping an onion, celery and carrot. That's it! Let your Instant Pot do the rest of the work.

Stuffed squash is a delicious healthy dinner recipe, and here the Instant Pot makes both the squash and the rice! Tender acorn squash is draped with a savory, herb-laden pecan and rice stuffing that truly makes your kitchen smell like a fall paradise!

Spaghetti squash takes about 1 hour to roast in the oven: but the Instant Pot cuts that time in half! Spaghetti squash can be a healthy side dish recipe (try our Easy Pesto Spaghetti Squash), or used as part of a main dish. Our Spaghetti Squash Spaghetti is cooked with garlic and herbs, then doused in marinara sauce for a low-carb take on spaghetti.

This healthy and easy Instant Pot butternut squash soup is creamy and cozy with no creamy at all! It's spiced with sage, with a hint of cinnamon and a smoky undertone. The squash and carrot give it an electric orange hue, and it's rounded out with potato and apple for sweetness. Really, it's pure gold in a bowl!

Here’s a fun trick you can whip up with your pressure cooker:Instant Pot hummus! Sure, it’s easy to buy store-bought hummus. But for the verybestcreamy chickpea puree: homemade hummus is where it’s at! It’s a great trick using your Instant Pot, and perfect if you whip up a big batch ofchickpeas.

Moving on to healthy Instant Pot side dish recipes! This steamed broccoli is so easy and has a cook time of Zero minutes. That's right, Zero minutes! Serve it with red onion, olive oil, and feta cheese, and it's a standout side dish that takes no effort at all.

Mashed potatoes are perfect in the Instant Pot! These healthy mashed potatoes are a blend of sweet potatoes and Yukon gold potatoes, and they come together into the perfectly fluffy, creamy texture. Use cream or non-dairy milk to bring it together, and top with chopped chives.

Here's another healthy Instant Pot recipe that makes a quick and easy side dish! This is the BEST way to eat cauliflower: mixed with lemon zest for brightness, Italian seasoning, and olive oil. It's got a Mediterranean flair and is so tasty, you won't be able to stop eating it!

Here's another seriously quick and healthy Instant Pot side dish recipe: green beans with lemon! It's so fast to steam green beans in a pressure cooker. Then mix with salt, olive oil and lemon zest for seriously fresh flavor.

One of the very best uses for your Instant Pot? Mashed potatoes. Yes, mashed potatoes are so much easier in a pressure cooker! You don’t have to worry about them boiling over on the stovetop, or keep testing them to see when they’re done. Nope, just throw them into the Instant Pot and press Go! This makes a large batch and is perfect for entertaining.

Can you use an Instant Pot for Brussels sprouts? Actually you can: and they turn out extremely tasty! They come out crisp tender and bright green. Mix them with butter, chives and Parmesan, and they're a super fast side dish. They're done in just under 15 minutes!

The Instant Pot makes homemade applesauce: and it's a healthy spin with no added sugar! This recipe skips the extra sugars of the store bought kind. Throw the apples, water and a cinnamon stick into your Instant Pot and voila: sweet, tasty applesauce!

Here’s an easy, healthy breakfast recipe for weekdays or entertaining guests: Instant Pot oatmeal! If you’ve got a pressure cooker, oatmeal is even easier to make. The oats are toasted in butter until fragrant, then mixed with milk and cooked for just 3 minutes. (Vegan variation included.) What comes out is the creamiest, tastiest oatmeal you’ll make!

The Instant Pot can also make healthy breakfast recipes! (What can't it do, really?) This creamy steel cut oats recipe features an apple cinnamon flavor. Top it with cashew butter and fresh fruit, and it's a nutritious way to start the day.

Last up in our healthy Instant Pot recipes: eggs! Did you know you could cook hard boiled eggs in a pressure cooker? This method is totally hands off: you don’t have to wait for water to boil or worry about overcooking the eggs. The entire process takes about 20 minutes and couldn’t be simpler. And even better: boiling eggs in an Instant Pot makes for easy peel hard boiled eggs. (Really! We didn’t believe it until we tried it.)