Quick Start Guide
Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Recipes
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Fruits 
Just like cooking vegetable, fresh or dried fruits are best steamed to preserve the texture 
and taste as well as vitamins and minerals. Steaming also retains the nature look of the 
fruit, essential to your fruit dish. 
When steaming fruit, you need one cup of water (250ml), and an ovenproof (or steel 
bowl) on a trivet. Normally fruit dish has precise requirement on the texture of the fruit. 
Instead of leaving the cooker naturally cooling down, you’ll need to use the steam re-
lease to release the pressure and stop cooking. 
Vegetable  Fresh 
Cooking Time 
(in Minutes) 
Frozen 
Cooking Time 
(in Minutes) 
 Spinach  1 – 2  3 – 4 
 Squash, acorn, slices or chunks  6 – 7  8 – 9 
 Squash, butternut, slices or chunks  8 – 10  10 – 12 
 Sweet potato, in cubes  7 – 9  9 – 11 
 Sweet potato, whole, small  10 – 12  12 – 14 
 Sweet potato, whole, large  12 – 15  15 – 19 
 Sweet pepper, slices or chunks  1 – 3  2 – 4 
 Tomatoes, in quarters  2 – 3  4 – 5 
Fruits  Fresh 
Cooking Time 
(in Minutes) 
Dried 
Cooking Time 
(in Minutes) 
 Apples, in slices or pieces  2 – 3  3 – 4 
 Apples, whole  3 – 4  4 – 6 
 Apricots, whole or halves  2 – 3  3 – 4 
 Peaches  2 – 3  4 – 5 
 Pears, whole  3 – 4  4 – 6 
 Pears, slices or halves  2 – 3  4 – 5 
 Prunes  2 – 3  4 – 5 
 Raisins  N/A  4 – 5 










