Easy Instant Pot Thanksgiving recipes
Feeling overwhelmed with the thought of cooking Thanksgiving dinner? Make life easy on yourself with these Instant Pot Thanksgiving recipes for a delicious – and quick – Thanksgiving meal.
If you’re thinking about Thanksgiving and wondering not only what to cook but how to manage all the things, consider how you can make life easier.
While there’s much satisfaction to be gained from intricate food preparation, slow cooking, and beautiful smells wafting through the kitchen, sometimes we don’t have time for that.
That’s when your Instant Pot comes in handy.
An Instant Pot cuts down your cooking time, so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time with family and friends (maybe munching on these Thanksgiving appetizers).
These Instant Pot Thanksgiving recipes are also super easy to make.
Whether you use your Instant Pot for Thanksgiving main dishes, side dishes, sauces or desserts, an Instant Pot will make you thankful for this super appliance!
Instant Pot Thanksgiving recipes
Check out this list of Instant Pot Thanksgiving recipes that are guaranteed to cut down both your cooking time and your stress levels this Thanksgiving.
Instant Pot Thanksgiving main dishes with stuffing
Thanksgiving means turkey right? And while I wouldn't recommend doing a whole turkey in the instant pot, doing a turkey breast is super easy.
And if you prefer chicken to turkey, there's a recipe for that as well.
You'll also find some delicious stuffing recipes.
Instant Pot turkey breast with delicious homemade gravy is moist and tender and cooks in under an hour in the pressure cooker.
This recipes for cooking a whole chicken in the Instant Pot takes less than 45 mins and produces a moist and flavorful rotisserie style chicken that's total perfection.
This stuffing uses Thanksgiving favorites like cranberries and pecans.
This Instant Pot brown rice stuffing is the perfect easy and delicious Thanksgiving side.
Let your Instant Pot make short work of your stuffing requirements. This stuffing, with added sausage and apple, will be a big hit at your Thanksgiving table.
Instant Pot Thanksgiving side dishes
If you'd rather cook your turkey in the oven, speed up your cooking time by whipping up your Thanksgiving sides in the Instant Pot.
You'll find classics here like Thanksgiving sweet potatoes as well as delicious sides like Brussels sprouts and green beans and ham.
Instant Pot sweet potatoes are incredibly easy to make, using only two ingredients and taking less than 30 minutes.
Prefer potatoes to sweet potatoes?
These deliciously creamy mashed potatoes can cook in your Instant Pot while you're busy whipping up other tasty treats.
This savory dish is given a subtle kick with the addition of horseradish to the creamy roux sauce.
This is a recipe for Instant Pot Brussels sprouts with bacon, apple cider vinegar, and soy sauce.
These Instant Pot green beans and ham are quick to make and super tender.
Sweet corn wrapped in a velvety sauce of cream, butter and cream cheese... this recipe will have you feeling very thankful indeed!
Instant Pot Thanksgiving sauces
It's hard to beat cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving.
But in case you wanted to try something a little different, I also have a cranberry chutney for you that will have everyone coming back for more.
This cranberry sauce has a delicious warmth to it created by the addition of spice.
Prefer a chutney to a sauce? No problem! Here's the perfect recipe.
Instant Pot Thanksgiving desserts
Nothing says Thanksgiving desserts like pumpkin pie or pumpkin cheesecake.
But if you're not a pumpkin fan, how about trying some pear and cranberry Instant Pot cake or some delicious carrot cake?
Tired of traditional holiday pies? Try something different with this honey orange pumpkin pie.
A moist carrot cake, smothered with cream cheese icing is my idea of heaven.
This cake ticks all the boxes.
This pressure cooker pumpkin cheesecake is delicious.
This moist, heavy cake is full of whole grains, fresh pear and cranberry.
With an Instant Pot, your Thanksgiving can go from stressful to stress-less.
Thanksgiving Instant Pot recipes make it easy.
Try even a few of these super easy Instant Pot thanksgiving recipes, and you’d be adding one more thing to your “thankful” list!
And why not make your Thanksgiving table look beautiful with these easy DIY Fall centerpieces?
(You might also like: 50 Thanksgiving pie recipes: from pumpkin to pecan and these chocolate Thanksgiving desserts).
So many new delicious Instant Pot recipe for me to try, thank you for including a couple of mine!
You’re very welcome Bintu!
I love my Instant Pot and thanksgiving sounds like the perfect time to use it. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing all these great recipes! You will be the featured post on this weeks Friday at the Fire station link up!
Oh that’s awesome! Thanks so much!
Fantastic post. It will be Thanksgiving before you know it. Pinning
Thank you Kippi!