- Hey guys, I'm Candice, The Edgy Veg,
and today on Hacked I'm going to show you
how to hack your Instant Pot
with my favorite Instant Pot basics.
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Hacked is a series on my
channel where I show you
some of my favorite kitchen hacks,
how to hack your favorite ingredients
and also test some super popular hacks
that I found on the internet.
Alright, if you have
been living under a rock
and you don't know what an Instant Pot is,
it's this beautiful thing here
that I thought was gimmicky
and kitschy before I got one.
But, since getting one for
Christmas two years ago,
I have learned how to use
this thing to hack my life.
So it makes recipe prep easier.
It just makes cooking a lot easier.
You can make rice in there, your grains.
You can make soup in here, you can saute,
use it to pressure cook.
One of my favorite things
to do is to cook grains
that I kind of mess up
cause I'll like walk
away from the stove.
Or things that take a lot of time to soak,
like beans and then you have
to like plan to eat beans
48 hours in advance
and it's a whole thing.
So, this guy will do that
using the pressure setting
in like just 30 minutes or less.
Yeah you can make soup in
there, stews, super super easy.
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Go.
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There we go.
Stay there long enough
for me to get this done.
One of my favorite things to
make in this guy is beans.
Usually, for the last
nine years, I have had
to soak my beans overnight,
or at least for four hours
but usually it's overnight,
and then I have to cook them
on the stove for a super long time.
So with this guy, I
don't have to soak them.
Like soaking definitely
helps with digestibility,
but you don't have to do it.
You can add a little bit
of apple cider vinegar
to help them break down and
do it all in the Instant Pot.
Whether you want to do
kidney beans or black beans,
all you need is dry beans
which is a lot cheaper
if you buy them in the grocery store,
as well as opposed to canned beans.
And then for every one cup of beans,
you need eight cups of
water because beans soak up
a lot of water.
So I will just throw the
beans in the Instant Pot
with eight cups of water and a tablespoon
of apple cider vinegar.
You can season it here as well.
You can add some salt, bay
leaves, you can even cook it
with some broth to make
some really yummy beans.
And then, just put on
the pressure setting.
White rice is the same thing.
The water ratio is a little bit different
than when you're cooking it on the stove.
It's actually a lot easier.
So for white rice, all you
need is one cup of white rice
and one cup of water, and
the Instant Pot has this
fantastic little rice
setting so all you have to do
is add both to the Instant Pot
and press rice and walk away
and it's beautiful and you
can keep it in your fridge
for up to three days and
just use rice as you need it.
So after your timer goes off,
you want to leave the rice
in the pressure cooker
for two to three minutes
for it to naturally release,
and then you can pull open
this little pressure
release doohickey thing,
and then take your rice
out, whip it with a fork
and it's good to go.
So for brown rice, it's almost
the exact same as white rice.
In terms of ratio, it's one cup
of rice to one cup of water,
or two cups of rice to two
cups of water, et cetera.
And all you have to do with
that is the exact same thing.
Throw them both into your Instant Pot,
put on the rice setting
except for this, you are going
to let the rice sit and let
the pressure escape naturally
for about five to seven minutes
before you pull the little
pressure release tab.
Again, whip it with a fork
and it's ready to serve.
One of my favorite
things to make is oatmeal
in the Instant Pot because
I can just throw them both
in there and I can go
and get ready for my day
and I don't have to sit
there stirring over a pot.
It'll do it all itself in here.
So for every one cup of oats,
you need one and a quarter
to one and a half cups of water.
So this just depends on how
thick you like your oats.
I don't like mine super
super thick, so I like to go
with one and a half cups of water.
Throw them both into the Instant Pot
and hit your pressure
cooker for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, when the
machine beeps, let it sit
and let the pressure release
naturally for 12 minutes
before opening the pot.
Then you can take out your oats.
You can flavor them however you want.
You can even flavor
them in the Instant Pot,
so if you want to add some
cinnamon or some cocoa powder,
you can do that right in
the Instant Pot as well.
Or if you just want them
plain, you can throw them
in the fridge even if you
do like three cups at a time
for like two breakfasts,
and then you can kind of
sweeten them naturally or
flavor them when you're ready
to eat them.
Cool.
One of my favorite things
to make in the Instant Pot
is quinoa because I just,
I always screw up quinoa.
I either cook it for
too long or not enough,
and this is the easiest thing to make ever
in the Instant Pot.
All you have to do is one cup
of quinoa to one cup of water,
throw it in the Instant
Pot, put it on high pressure
for one minute.
That's it.
And then let pressure release naturally,
and you have quinoa for
dinner, quinoa for days.
The great thing about quinoa
too is you can keep it
in the fridge just like brown
rice, and then the next day
if you want to make like
a healthy quinoa bowl
or throw some quinoa into a salad
or throw some quinoa into a soup or
however you like to use your quinoa,
it's ready to go in your fridge
making meal prep stupid easy.
The last thing I love to do
in my Instant Pot is use it
to steam veggies.
Now I don't like to steam
a lot of vegetables.
I prefer roasted vegetables
or like stir fried vegetables,
but for potatoes, one of
the most annoying things
is waiting to cook a potato in the oven
or whether it's a regular
potato or sweet potato.
So this guy will actually steam
your potato in 10 minutes.
All you need is a little turret.
If you lost this when you
bought your Instant Pot
or it didn't come with
one you can also just make
little balls with aluminum
foil and shove that
in the bottom.
You want to fill that
with one cup of water
and then you just put your potatoes,
whether it's regular or sweet
potatoes into the Instant Pot,
put on the lid, press the
pressure cooker for 10 minutes
and then you have perfectly
steamed sweet potatoes
or regular potatoes or
broccoli or whatever vegetable
you just steamed.
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