Pressure cooker potatoes are a phenomenon. Because of pressure cooking, you no longer have to wait an hour for your potatoes to bake in the oven or wait 40 minutes for them to boil on the stove. With a pressure cooker, depending on the type and size of potatoes you are cooking, it can take as little as 12 minutes, including the time it takes for the pressure cooker to warm up!

With a pressure cooker, you can make all types of potatoes and potato recipes. The recipes you will receive today are for mashed potatoes, buttery garlic, baby potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

You are not limited to these recipes; with your pressure cooker, you should try making other recipes as well, such as recipes that have meat and potatoes.

As long as you cut the potatoes into chunks before adding it to a bunch of other ingredients, you can add them to almost any pressure cooker recipe since they do not take long to cook. You CAN cook whole potatoes or sweet potatoes, but it is best to cook them alone and not combined with many other ingredients or vegetables.

Keep reading to see three fantastic pressure cooker potatoes recipes to try at home. Each of these recipes is straightforward and takes very little knowledge of cooking to create a delicious meal.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

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Ingredients

Cooking Instructions

1. Put the potato chunks in your pressure cooker with 1 cup of water.
2. Close and lock the pressure cooker cover. In the manual setting, set the timer to 6 minutes.
3. Once the time is up, quick release the pressure and remove the lid. You want your potatoes to be still hot, so you should avoid a slow pressure release.
4. Add butter, milk, and seasonings and use a hand mixer or hand masher to mash the potatoes. Serve immediately.

Tip: To give the mashed potatoes a unique flavor, add other seasonings or ingredients, like garlic, bacon, sour cream, or cheese. Gravy is also an excellent pairing for mashed potatoes.

Instant Pot Garlic Herb Potatoes

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Ingredients

Cooking Instructions

1. Add the baby potatoes to your pressure cooker. If any of the baby potatoes are unusually large, cut them in half.
2. Pour the chicken broth over the potatoes and add 1 tsp of salt.
3. Replace the pressure cooker cover and lock it. Use the manual setting at 2 minutes. The timer should start after the pressure cooker has reached a high enough pressure.
4. After completion of the timer, slowly let the pressure come down for at least 5 minutes, and then use the pressure release valve to allow the rest of the pressure to escape.
5. Drain the liquid from the pot. Add butter, remaining salt, parsley, garlic powder, thyme, and pepper. Stir the potatoes gently, so the butter melts. Serve immediately.

Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

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Ingredients

Cooking Instructions

1. In your pressure cooker, you will need to place a metal trivet in the bottom. Below it, you will add 1 cup of water. On top, place the sweet potatoes at an equal width apart, if there is room.
2. Close the pressure cooker lid and lock it. The pressure release valve should be in the closed or ‘sealing’ position.
3. On high pressure, set the timer for 16 minutes. The timer will start after the pressure cooker has reached the correct pressure for cooking.
4. Once the timer finishes, let the pressure come down naturally. It should take at least 10 minutes before you are safe to remove the lid. You can serve the sweet potatoes immediately, but be careful and use tongs since the potatoes will be very hot.

Using These Recipes with Pressure Cookers Other Than Instant Pot

The instruction of these three pressure cooker potatoes recipes is for using an Instant Pot. However, you do not necessarily need to own an Instant Pot to execute them successfully. With just one small change in instruction, you can cook these potato recipes in any pressure cooker.

The only concerning step is when you set the timer. Some pressure cookers either do not have a timer or do not have a setting labeled, ‘timer’. Older models of stovetop pressure cookers, for example, have no digital settings or LCD screen with a display clock; they rely on you for watching the time.

For pressure cooker potatoes recipes, you can use the high-pressure setting, at the same time limit shown in the recipe you are using. Remember to account for the time it takes the pressure cooker to reach the optimum cooking pressure. It usually takes about 10 minutes for a pressure cooker to reach high pressure.

Most pressure cookers have either a digital timer, a whistle, or a pressure level indicator, all of which help you know when the pressure cooker is ready for you to start timing.

The Benefits of Pressure Cooking

When you cook on the stove or in the oven, a lot of the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients in your food cooks out and reduces the nutritional value of the meal. However, with pressure cooking, since the food and steam are contained until the completion of the pressure cooking, much fewer nutrients are lost.

With pressure cooking, your vegetables stay full of beneficial vitamins and lose very little nutritional value in the cooking process. You can also expect your recipes, especially potato recipes, to be more moist after cooking.