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80 DELICIOUS Instant Pot Recipes for Summer
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Warm weather means it’s time for the best summer Instant Pot recipes. Keep your house cool and still enjoy healthy and flavor-packed pressure cooker entrees, side dishes, and desserts that make the most of summer produce.
☀️ Use your Instant Pot to avoid heating up your kitchen sweating over a hot stove on the warmest days of the year!
Today I’m sharing my favorite recipes for excellent Instant Pot side dishes, quick and easy main dishes, and festive summer desserts made in the pressure cooker.
Make your summer meals in an Instant Pot / pressure cooker, and you’ll stay cool inside and be able to spend more time outdoors with family!
Winter is over, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to put away your pressure cooker for the season!
These summer main dish, side dish, and dessert recipes will work in any brand of electric pressure cooker, including the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi, or Power Pressure Cooker XL. Updated in 2021 to add even more of my favorite summer recipes!
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Instant Pot BBQ Baby Back Ribs
A perfect make-ahead summer meal. Pressure cook ribs ahead of time and finish them on the grill for that sticky, caramelized BBQ flavor everyone loves.
During the summer, I look for recipes that let me spend more time outside. These summer pressure cooker entrée recipes help you maximize your time in the sun without sacrificing healthy, delicious meals.
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Instant Pot Beef Brisket
Serve this brisket sliced or to stretch it for a big crowd, shred the meat and serve it on rolls with potato salad or coleslaw.
These easier Instant Pot tamales have delicious Mexican flavors in a fluffy homemade masa wrapper. Plus, they taste even better topped with fresh diced tomatoes from the garden!
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Instant Pot Chili Dog Sauce
Want to take your hot dogs to the next level? This ballpark chili dog sauce is the easiest way to dress up a classic hot dog. This Instant Pot summer recipe can easily be doubled or tripled for a crowd.
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Instant Pot Kalua Pork
Bring Hawaiin luau flavors home with this zesty Instant Pot summer recipe.
Best Summer Side Dishes For the Instant Pot / Pressure Cooker
These classic side dishes are make-ahead summer favorites for the Instant Pot / Pressure Cooker.
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Quick Instant Pot Potato Salad
It’s amazingly fast and easy to make potato salad in the pressure cooker—you can cook the potatoes and eggs at the same time!
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Instant Pot Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin
This is a hot side dish that's perfect paired with pretty much anything from the grill! Make the creamy potatoes ahead of time and brown just before serving.
This classic old-fashioned pasta salad is a versatile side dish for any summer entree!
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Shortcut Instant Pot Cornbread
Did you know that your pressure cooker makes perfectly moist slices of cornbread? This shortcut version has just THREE ingredients, so it's easy to have on the table anytime!
Don’t forget that your pressure cooker is your friend when it comes to desserts too. This summer, enjoy creamy cheesecakes and fruity pies without touching your oven.
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Red White and Blue Pressure Cooker Cheesecake
Celebrate the 4th of July with this patriotic cake made in your Instant Pot! This topping is great over ice cream, too!
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Instant Pot Raspberry Cheesecake
What better way to use fresh berries from your garden than this beautiful berry-topped cheesecake? Chocolate and berries is always a winning combination!
I love serving cool desserts in the heat of summer. This cheesecake, topped with chocolate ganache, Rolos, and hazelnuts, is as impressive to serve as it is easy to make!
These are a perfect cool treat to serve in the summer. Plus, you can customize them with different dips, sprinkles, and drizzles. (How cute would they be with white chocolate with red and white drizzles and silver star sprinkles?!)
More Summer Recipes to Serve with These Instant Pot / Pressure Cooker Favorites
As much as I love my Instant Pot, my other blog, Barbara Bakes, is packed with so many of my favorite summer recipes that don’t require an electric pressure cooker.
I often serve these recipes side-by-side with the ones we make in the Instant Pot, so I thought I'd share them. so you could add them to your table too.
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Instant Pot Thai Grilled Chicken
This spicy-sweet Thai street food is started in the pressure cooker, then finished on the grill with a Thai sweet chili glaze!
Lime-marinated tilapia is pressure cooked quickly and rolled up in a soft tortilla with lime sour cream, pico de gallo, shredded cabbage, and avocados.
I love Melissa's egg salad recipe because it DOESN’T require you to peel eggs! You can use her awesome flavorings or mix it up with your traditional favorites.
Bruschetta Turkey Burger Sliders with Avocado Spread
Light turkey burger sliders with a creamy homemade avocado spread—is there a more summery meal out there? (You can also make this with ground beef if you'd prefer.)
These are the freshest tasting, not to mention the most beautiful, summer appetizers. They're easy to dice up ahead of time and are a MUST at my summer get-togethers.
These Instant Pot Loaded Potatoes are quick and delicious, with all the goodness of a loaded baked potato in one pot! You can finish this recipe with your air fryer lid!
Serve your homemade ice cream in one of these waffle bowls. They're cheap and easy to make, and they smell so good that it'll make any ice cream feel like a party!
I love to serve these in the summertime—they're easy to set out and snack on, and the little bite-size cookie cups are so much easier to serve than traditional lemon bars.
When it's raining or you don't want to break out the grill, try these easy Instant Pot hamburgers! Load them with your favorite toppings for the perfect summertime meal!
Instant Pot Texas Caviar – 365 Days of Slow Cooking and Pressure Cooking
Enjoy this colorful tortilla chip dip that has black eyed peas, tomatoes, peppers, corn, red onion and a zesty dressing. This stuff is addicting so make sure you have enough chips on hand!
The perfect side dish for any grilled meat! Cook these red potatoes quick in the electric pressure cooker, then coat them in melted butter, garlic and herbs, and Parmesan cheese, and crisp them to perfection with an air fryer lid.
If you're not a ground beef lover, make up some of these Chicken Caprese Burgers that feature melted mozzarella with garden-fresh tomato and basil and topped with a flavorful balsamic mayo you wont be able to get enough of!
Instant Pot Chicken Tomatillo Soup with Hominy is made with salsa verde and tomatillos for a slightly spicy, brothy and delicious dinner that takes less than 40 minutes and one pot.
Mediterranean Fish en Papillote in the Instant Pot is a light, refreshing pressure cooker fish recipe with flaky cod, cherry tomatoes, and briny olives.
Fresh, juicy strawberries and blueberries cook up quick in this Instant Pot Berry Compote. You're just a few minutes away from taking your favorite desserts and breakfasts to a new level.
Layered Instant Pot Strawberry Cheesecake is a classic dessert that's dressed up with white and pink layers and a delicious made-from-scratch strawberry topping that is SO easy to make in your pressure cooker!
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