33 Instant Pot Soup Recipes for the Easiest Dinners Ever (2024)

FAQs

Do you use low or high pressure for soup in Instant Pot? ›

Soup. The soup program is 30 minutes on high pressure. Depending on wether your are using fresh or frozen meats, soup times can range from 20 minutes to an hour.

Locate the soup setting on your Instant Pot control panel. It is usually labeled with a soup icon or the word “soup”. Press the button to activate the setting. The Instant Pot will automatically adjust the time and temperature for cooking soup.

Add suitable liquid to thin condensed cream-based soups and thick sauces. Maximum When pressure cooking, do not fill the inner pot higher than the PC MAX — 2/3 line as indicated on the inner pot.

Just a bit of corn starch. Take a tbsp of cornstarch and mix with a tablespoon of cold water, then stir it into your sauce - make sure the sauce boils for a little bit with the cornstarch in it to activate it's thickeners, then let it cool.

Close the Lid and Check the Seal: Put the lid on your Instant Pot and make sure it's locked. There's a sealing ring inside the lid – check that it's in place. This ring is important to keep the steam inside. Press the Soup Button: Now, press the 'Soup' button.

Use an automatic natural release (NPR) for soups, chilis, and oatmeals to let the pressure slowly release for up to 40 minutes. Opt for a manual quick release (QR) that takes 1 to 5 minutes if you want to avoid over-cooking delicate foods like fish, green beans, or pasta.

If your pot doesn't have a meat/stew button just set the manual/pressure cook button to 30 minutes on high pressure. Let the pressure release naturally for at least 10 minutes and if you have more time you can do a full natural pressure release.

Every pressure cooker manual has an “Important Safeguards” section at the beginning that says a pressure cooker should not be filled with food and liquid more than 1/2 full when pressure cooking beans, grains and rice (or “foamy” foods) and no more than 2/3 full for cooking anything else.

Why is my Instant Pot not pressurizing soup? ›

SOLUTION: Open the Instant Pot and make sure there's enough liquid. If too much liquid has evaporated, the Instant Pot won't pressurize, so add more liquid if necessary. Close the Instant Pot and resume pressure cooking. If you have trouble closing the lid, move the steam release handle to the VENTING position.

What about the meat/stew button? The meat stew setting is a one-click approach to cooking larger pieces of meat (like those in this recipe) in the Instant Pot. The meat stew setting on the Instant Pot is 35 minutes long, so it should work, but I haven't experimented with the setting myself.

Foods that have a great deal of acidity, like lemon juice, vinegar, white wine, and tomato puree, can help liven up the flavor of bland-tasting bone and other broths. "The acidity of these ingredients works to complement and enhance the broth's flavors, not mask it.

Dried herbs and seasonings: homemade seasoned salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, and dried bay leaves lend flavor to the soup.

For weighted gauge pressure canners at 0-1000 feet, process at 10 pounds pressure - 60 minutes for pints and 75 minutes for quarts. At higher altitudes, process at 15 pounds pressure. For dial gauge pressure canners at 0-2000 feet, process at 11 pounds pressure – process 60 minutes for pints and 75 minutes for quarts.

Hard-, medium, and soft-cooked eggs come out perfectly when cooked on a low-pressure setting. Along with eggs, you might see an occasional recipe for vegetables and fish use low pressure. Most of those recipes, however, give an alternative for cooking at high pressure with a shorter cook time.

They acknowledge that instant pots are unsafe for pressure canning (as of 2023). While instant pots can be used for water bath canning, which can preserve high-acid foods like jams, jellies, fruit, and pickles, they cannot be used as a pressure canner to preserve low-acid foods like meat, vegetables, and soups.

A slow cooker should be your go-to if you make a lot of soups or stews and want your meats fall-off-the-bone tender. Because they can be easily transported, they're also excellent to bring to potlucks.