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The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook: Authentic Flavors and Modern Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker Hardcover – October 16, 2018

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This authorized collection of 75 simplified Indian classics for the immensely popular electric pressure cooker, the Instant Pot, is a beautifully photographed, easy-to-follow source for flavorful weekday meals.

The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook is your source for quick, flavorful Indian favorites and contemporary weekday meals. With 75 well-tested recipes authorized by Instant Pot covering every meal of the day, this is a go-to resource for classic chicken, lamb, and vegetarian curries; daals, soups, and seafood like fennel and saffron spiced mussels; breakfast delights like spicy frittata and ginger almond oatmeal; and sweet treats like rose milk cake and fig and walnut halwa.
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ARCHANA MUNDHE is a software engineer turned recipe developer, cooking instructor, and food blogger who writes at Ministry of Curry. Born and raised in western India, Mundhe now cooks and writes in New Jersey, where she lives with her husband and their two sons.

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INTRODUCTION 

Growing up in India, cooking appliances were very limited, but the one thing that was an absolute must in every kitchen across the country was a stove-top pressure cooker. The sound of the pressure building and releasing, better known as “the whistle,” could be heard in every home before meals. My mom would have me sit in the kitchen and count whistles. I would wait for two or three, depending on what she was making, and then call for her to come turn off the stove. However, I was never allowed to go near the cooker or touch it out of fear of getting burned. When I discovered the Instant Pot a few years ago, it was a mealtime game changer. This truly “smart” pressure cooker with several built-in functions and safety features literally took the pressure off me while I cooked in my New Jersey kitchen with my young children. As a working parent, a major benefit of pressure cooking is that you can produce a nutritious, flavorful hot meal in less than an hour—and there is only one pot to clean!

The word “instant” in Instant Pot could be misleading for some because it doesn’t speed up the cooking time for all foods. For me, the key difference of cooking in the Instant Pot rather than on the stove is that the Instant Pot makes the process more hands-off, especially for Indian cooking. It is a true one-pot experience where you can cook traditional recipes like biryani, pongal, korma, and other dishes that would normally use multiple pots. More than fifty of the recipes in this book are adaptations of my family’s traditional recipes from the regions of Maharashtra and Gujarat in western India. Most of the North and South Indian recipes in these pages are popular dishes that I grew up eating in my hometown near Bombay (now Mumbai). In all cases, I’ve simplified the original recipes, using modern techniques to adapt them to the Instant Pot while preserving the authentic flavors.

The Instant Pot is designed with several smart presets, which help achieve consistent cooking. Once you know the cooking time for a specific ingredient, it is easy to use the same setting when using that ingredient to make a different dish. This consistency makes it easy for you to experiment with your own recipes!

The Pressure Cook or Manual setting can be used to set custom times, which you’ll be using with these recipes. In the DUO model, the pressure can be adjusted to high or low, making it a perfect option for cooking dishes like rice, chicken, lentils, and fish with variable cooking times. 

The Sauté setting is crucial, especially for traditional Indian recipes. I start most of my recipes by making a tadka, or sautéing onion, ginger, garlic, and spices in hot oil or ghee. This key step releases the flavors of these ingredients while creating a base for the dish. The Sauté setting is followed by a pressure-cooking cycle that seals the flavors into the remaining ingredients of the dish. When finishing curries, Sauté can be used to bring the dish to the right consistency.

My goal for this cookbook, which is my dream realized, is to help both expert and novice cooks easily achieve authentic flavor with this modern-day method. These tried-and-true tested recipes aim to make home-cooked Indian cuisine attainable for all.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (October 16, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399582630
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399582639
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
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Hi, I'm Archana: former software engineer, now full time blogger. I am a mother of two boys who share my love for food and cooking. Words I love to hear are, “Mom, what’s for dinner?” The same words I say to my mom every time we speak. I live in the greater New York City Area with my husband and sons

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This review is coming from my wife, whose a biggest foodie:I generally don't buy cook books as its the digital age where following a blog or YouTube is easier. I have been trying Archana's blog recipes from a while and they have all tips and steps and also saves us from trial and error step.Her directions for do's and dont's are so clear, hence I was motivated to buy this book. This came from her experience and I wasn't disappointed at all. From good price to good recipes and instructions this has it all. She's very open to suggestions and would answer your queries very humbly.From this book I can swear by her chicken biryani recipe! Its the best. Very quick and no compromise in flavour. I have tried that same recipe with goat, lamb and beef. ( increased cooking time acc to meat. Rest all same rice cooking time will also be same)My other favs are butter chicken, zeera chicken, cilantro soup,pulao and many more ( I will end up writing index here :p)Way to go Archana! Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing your cooking secrets with us!!Do invest in this book its price is almost less than ordering a take out from a good indian resturant!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018
EDIT: As mentioned below, my pre-teen daughter loves to bake and finally during this Thanksgiving break, she picked 5 recipes from the book that she wanted to try using the Instant Pot each day. The recipes she picked were Mango Cheesecake, Rose Milk Cake, Sweet Corn Soup, Butter Chicken & Lemon Rice. She did Mango Cheesecake on the first day and I was watching and guiding her very closely on this one. Once she gained confidence, she was able to independently do rest of the recipes with almost no guidance from me. The key difference I thought that made this easy for my daughter was the advice I got from the author (Archana), to first measure and prepare all ingredients. Once all ingredients are prepared and kept ready, following the instructions on the book was just so easy that even a kid was able to do it. The food not only turned out the way it was pictured, it also tasted so good. My daughter loved the book and we had such a good Thanksgiving break.

OMG, I was literally drooling as I was flipping through the recipes in the book. Beautiful and well captured pictures. A book well organized, so it’s easy to quickly find a recipe. The instructions are simple and yet detailed. There’s just so much love and effort put into creating this book. Kudos to the author and others who worked on this masterpiece.

Yes, we can find a lot of recipes on the Internet, but when it’s time to cook, I prefer having something in print in front of me, so I can carefully follow the instructions. There just aren’t many good books on Indian cooking with Instant Pot. Glad I have the book in my kitchen now.

My preteen daughter loves to bake and I’ve been planning to introduce her to Instant Pot and Indian cooking. This book would be a great bonding time with my daughter as we try out some recipes. Will post an update on how easy my daughter found the instructions.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2023
This really is an essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook. I have several Instant Pot cookbooks & this is my favorite because:

1. The author, Archana Mundhe, identifies each recipe & ingredient with its original name and its English name. Dals no longer confuse me!

2. The author explains each ingredient and suggests brand preferences and substitutes so if you don't have a well-stocked (or Indian) grocery store you can still make this awesome food (also, Amazon has all the ingredients!).

Mundhe also offers gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options.

3. The recipes include everything from traditional Indian restaurant dishes from dals (lentils, chickpeas, beans), tikka masala & butter chicken, biryani, palak paneer, curried cauliflower, lamb Rogan Josh & vindaloo to yogurt, kheer & the most divine mango cheesecake. Recipes are included for ghee, raita, garam masala, paratha (& roti).

4. The author also provides explicit & easy instructions for how to use your Instant Pot. She has a recipe blog at MinistryofCurry.com where she posts additional recipes and Instant Pot tips & tricks.

I've made 26 of the more than 150 recipes from this cookbook and they've all been really good. There aren't any beef or pork recipes but there are lamb recipes & lots of seafood & fish - the salmon tikka masala is amazing & lighting fast!

I haven't had any problems with burn notices or things being too watery. I made the author's garam masala & I alternate it with another garam masala because sometimes I like my food super spicy & sometimes I don't.

P.S. The lemon pickle is as addicting as she says it is.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018
This is such a wonderful cookbook. Being from India, my mother always cooked a majority of these recipes in this book. However, when I was at the age to learn, I would watch her, and try and write down the recipes. It was a palmful of this spice, a smaller palm of this spice, etc., etc. Never did I get the exact recipe from my mother. So when I would try out various recipes I wanted to have, before getting married, there was a lot of experimentation going on in my kitchen. Enter "The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook". Such wonderful recipes, all laid out clearly and easily, and in front of me, and yes I can still experiment with the spices, as my nine year old son, does not like his Indian food 'too spicy', so we always have to tone down the spices for him, but still maintain the taste.

The reference at the end of the book is a great shopping list when I go to various Indian/Oriental stores, and make sure I always have the right spices I might need in the days ahead.

Thank you for writing this book, and as an Indian-American (yes I am an ABCD) and for those that might not know what I mean ABCD stands for American Born Confused Desi (Indian). It makes all those recipes I tried to learn years ago, a simple task these days!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021
I always check cookbooks out of the library before committing to buying them just to test them out first, and this one won me over! I miss living closer to restaurants serving Indian food, but this book satisfies the craving. I'm overall very happy with the recipes!

Pros:
*Very efficient recipes that utilize the pot-in-pot method of cooking rice simultaneously.
*Excellent use of spices.
*Great selection of recipes.

Cons:
*As meticulous as I was able trying to prevent scorching, the pot sometimes took so long to come to pressure that I got a burn warning anyway and had to start over.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent food, occasional "burn warnings."
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021
I always check cookbooks out of the library before committing to buying them just to test them out first, and this one won me over! I miss living closer to restaurants serving Indian food, but this book satisfies the craving. I'm overall very happy with the recipes!

Pros:
*Very efficient recipes that utilize the pot-in-pot method of cooking rice simultaneously.
*Excellent use of spices.
*Great selection of recipes.

Cons:
*As meticulous as I was able trying to prevent scorching, the pot sometimes took so long to come to pressure that I got a burn warning anyway and had to start over.
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Elatwe01
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic introduction to Indian style cooking
Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2024
Love this book! Have been wanting to become more conversant with how to prepare Indian dishes. To find a Instantpot based book was a bonus. Not only are the recipes easy to prepare but they are delicious- like restaurant level delicious. This book has given me the confidence to try new flavours and techniques. So happy with this purchase.
KJW
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use with clear instructions and great flavors
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2023
I bought this book because I use the Instant Pot Chicken Biryani from the author's Ministry of Curry website. So far everything I've made has been exceptional, and there are some recipes that aren't on the website, too. I'm considering making this a Christmas gift for IP-loving relatives!
Jennifer Barker
5.0 out of 5 stars Value for money teast
Reviewed in Spain on November 19, 2022
Very well written, whether you are new to the Instan ot or experienced you will find it easy to follow.
The recipes are varied and do not contain ingrediency that is only obtainable on Mars. Highly recommended.
Aswathi Raviendran
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for Indian food or Instantpot newbies!
Reviewed in India on July 2, 2021
This book tranformed me - a kitchen train-wreck- into someone who knows her way around the kitchen.

For wholesome, authentic, home cooked flavours in the instantpot - look no further. The writing is simple, instructions clear, and you get consistent results day after day when you follow the recipe in your instantpot - a godsend for rookie chefs cooking in a hurry.

I bought the borosil mini food processor - to chop veggies - as an instantpot accompaniment; that, with this book has made my life so much simpler.

Thanks Ms. Mundhe!
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Reviewed in Italy on December 22, 2020
Ho letto diverse ricette di Archana che seguo anche su FB. L'unico problema è che le spezie che lei usa (alcune) e altro non sono reperibili da noi qui a Venezia. Le ho dato 5 stelle perché sono ben descritte e vedrò se posso usarne qualcuna.