Cook Christmas dinner without using your oven with these traditional No-Bake Christmas Dinner Recipes for the whole family. These no-bake Christmas recipes are made in your Instant Pot.
If you have been living under rock for the last couple years and have no clue what an Instant Pot is, it is the new “it” item. Goodbye Crock-Pot hello fast and furious Instant Pot. This amazing little gem does everything from pressure cooking and sauteing to slow cooking and making soup, cakes and preserves. The Instant Pot speeds up cooking duration by two to six times and uses 70% less energy than average. Clearly if you don’t have one, add it to your wish list or better yet, look for it on sale on Black Friday!
3-Minute Instant Pot Butternut Squash
Ingredients: butternut squash, water or broth, pumpkin pie spice, dried oregano, garlic powder, chili powder. Full recipe at cleaneatingkitchen.com
Creamy Instant Pot Green Bean Casserole
Ingredients: chicken broth, heavy cream, mushrooms, onion, olive oil, green beans, French’s Onions, corn starch slurry. Full recipe at adventuresofanurse.com
Instant Pot Butternut Apple Mash
Ingredients: butternut squash, apple, onion, brown butter or ghee or coconut oil, apple pie spice (or cinnamon & ginger), salt. Full recipe at kristinarisola.com
Instant Pot Butternut Squash and Apple Soup
Ingredients: olive oil, yellow onion, garlic, butternut squash, Gala apples, vegetable stock, dried sage, cashew milk, sea salt, black pepper, almonds, paprika. Full recipe at cookingwithcurls.com
Instant Pot Glazed Carrots
Ingredients: carrots, butter, baking soda, honey. Full recipe at feistyeats.wordpress.com
Instant Pot Honey Ham
Ingredients: pineapple, honey, brown sugar, bone-in spiral ham. Full recipe at adventuresofanurse.com
Instant Pot Maple Smoked Brisket
Ingredients: beef brisket, maple sugar or date sugar or coconut sugar, smoked sea salt, black pepper, mustard powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, bone broth or stock of choice, liquid smoke, thyme. Full recipe at barerootgirl.com
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients: potatoes, vegetable stock, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper. Full recipe at karissasvegankitchen.com
Instant Pot Pumpkin Cheesecake
Ingredients: graham crackers, butter, sugar, ginger powder, cinnamon, cream cheese, vanilla, pumpkin puree, heavy cream, pumpkin pie spice, allspice, nutmeg, all purpose flour, eggs, brown sugar (optional), chocolate or butterscotch ganache drizzle, whipped cream. Full recipe at simplyhappyfoodie.com
Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients: sweet potatoes, egg, coconut sugar, full fat coconut milk, coconut flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, sea salt, almond flour, pecans, walnuts, unsweetened shredded coconut, chia seeds, butter. Full recipe at traditionalcookingschool.com
Loaded Instant Pot Mac and Cheese
Ingredients: elbow macaroni, unsalted butter, sharp cheddar, mild cheddar or American cheese, salt, black pepper, eggs, evaporated milk, Sriracha sauce or Frank’s hot sauce, ground mustard, bacon, scallion, panko breadcrumbs, olive oil. Full recipe at pressurecookrecipes.com
Pressure Cooked Bone-In Ham with Maple-Honey Glaze
Ingredients: maple syrup, honey, brown sugar, orange juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, bone-in ham. Full recipe at simpleawesomecooking.com
Pressure Cooker Brussels Sprouts with Pomagranate and Pine Nuts
Ingredients: Brussels sprouts, pine nuts, pomegranate, olive oil, salt, pepper. Full recipe at hippressurecooking.com
Pressure Cooker Mashed Turnips
Ingredients: turnips, onion, beef or chicken broth, sour cream, salt, black pepper. Full recipe at thedailymeal.com
Pressure Cooker Stuffed Acorn Squash
Ingredients: butter, onion, salt, garlic, brown rice, quinoa, fresh rosemary, fresh sage, fresh thyme, chicken stock, acorn squash, Parmesan cheese. Full recipe at happybellyfoodie.com
Sweet and Spicy Instant Pot Carrots
Ingredients: carrots, organic blackstrap molasses, butter, mustard, cumin, paprika, garlic, hot sauce, salt, pepper. Full recipe at thesewildacres.com
