How long to cook potatoes and carrots in instant pot?

Carrots and potatoes in the Instant Pot cook in just three minutes and come out perfectly tender. Make this filling side dish for Thanksgiving or Easter dinner or even on a busy weeknight!

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Ingredients You’ll Need:

Olive Oil

Onion

Carrots

Minced Garlic

Baby Yellow Potatoes

Italian Seasoning

Vegetable or Chicken Broth

Salt and Pepper

Tips for Perfect Pressure Cooker Potatoes and Carrots

This recipe really couldn’t be any easier. Following these guidelines will ensure that you always get the best potatoes and carrots.

Wash and cut your veggies the night before cooking to save you even more time in the kitchen.

Sauté the onions and carrots for a few minutes to give them a head start on the cooking process.

Cut your veggies into similar sized pieces. You want larger sized chunks of carrots that are comparable to your smallest potatoes. Cut any larger potatoes as needed.

You can easily cut this Instant Pot recipe in half for a smaller serving or double it to serve more. Keep the liquid at one cup and keep the same cooking time.

If you prefer, you can cook the potatoes and carrots in a steamer basket, but I like to have them coated with the herbs and liquid.

How long does it take to cook vegetables in a pressure cooker?

That depends on what you’re cooking. At just one minute, Instant Pot broccoli is the fastest, and Instant Pot fried cabbage is a close second. All take under 5 minutes.

If you want to save a lot of time, you can use bagged baby carrots. In any case, we only need to add butter, salt, and pepper to this simple and quick side dish.

Carrots should be peeled and cut into 1″ pieces

Potatoes are best if you keep the skin on, washed and cubed into similar sizes is best. Red potatoes will stay firmer than Russet or Yellow.

Water or vegetable broth works

Steamer basket if you have one, if not just cook in the water but potatoes will break down a bit more this way

Seasonings are up to you. You could use Mrs. Dash for a sodium free option that still has great flavors. I opt for Italian seasonings, garlic salt, pepper, melted butter when done….just depends what I have on hand.

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