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Easy Instant Pot Beef Stew

byKaren•January 13, 2021

This easy Instant Pot beef stew recipe is delicious and also doubles as a 21 day fix instant pot beef stew. I used gluten-free flour in the recipe to make it wheat free for my husband. The delicious broth is my favorite part!

This Instant Pot Beef stew is very easy and forgiving. It’s the perfect recipe for beginning Instant Pot users to try especially during the cold winter months. I don’t know about you but I love soup (and stew) year-round despite living in the Arizona desert. Broth if one of my favorite things to eat (or read more »

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Instant Pot Chicken Stir Fry

byKaren•January 7, 2018

Who’s ready for a new Instant Pot recipe, an easy one that is healthy too. Sometimes I experiment with crazy recipe ideas but most of the time I prefer to make simple meals that I know my kids will eat. Thanks to a sponsored partnership with Foster Farms® I am sharing an easy Instant Pot Chicken read more »

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Instant Pot Potato Soup

byKaren•January 1, 2018

My dad has always made a delicious creamy potato soup. It’s a little rich but so worth indulging in occasionally. After buying his own Instant Pot recently, he tinkered a bit with the regular recipe and made the perfect Instant Pot Potato Soup recipe. Now I want to call this 5 minute Instant Pot Potato read more »

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Instant Pot Whole Chicken

byKaren•March 20, 2017

How often does your family eat Chicken? We usually eat it a few times a week, one of our favorite ways is picking up a rotisserie chicken. I bet this Instant Pot whole chicken recipe will replace that though! Easy Instant Pot Chicken Recipe Now you can skip a trip to Costco and make it ALMOST read more »

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Instant Pot White Bean and Kale Soup

byKaren•February 21, 2017

My favorite soup of all time is my white bean and kale soup recipe. Everyone who tries it raves about it. I probably shouldn’t ever try to make anything else new because I won’t be able to top it. That being said, it made sense to convert it to an Instant Pot recipe. It doesn’t read more »

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30 Instant Pot Chinese Takeout Recipes

byKaren•February 8, 2017

If you still haven’t heard of the Instant Pot let me fill you in, it’s a pressure cooker that has all the bells and whistles. It’s a safe, updated, and easy to use option compared to a traditional pressure cooker. You get all the flavor and convenience of a slow cooker but in much less read more »

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Instant Pot Sesame Chicken

byKaren•January 31, 2017

My favorite Chinese takeout dish has always been sesame chicken. I am super excited to be partnering with Dorot today to share this sesame chicken recipe. Sesame chicken is a little too saucy for my picky eaters but I am hoping they will develop a taste for it as they grow up. The irony to read more »

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30 Instant Pot Soup Recipes

byKaren•January 27, 2017

The Instant Pot is taking the culinary world by storm. If you haven’t heard of the Instant Pot let me fill you in, it’s a pressure cooker that has all the bells and whistles. It’s more safe, updated, and easy to use than a traditional pressure cooker. Think of the flavor and convenience of a read more »

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Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli

byKaren•January 22, 2017

Beef and Broccoli is one of our family favorite options when ordering Chinese food. The seemingly simple dish was an obvious choice for our next Instant Pot adventure. Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli It seems healthier since the meat isn’t breaded and it includes a generous serving of veggies. Of course, if you have kiddos read more »

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Hi! I’m Karen.

I'm a mom to two boys, Arizona native, and travel lover. Desert Chica is my place to share a peek into our life and the easy and inexpensive costumes, crafts and desserts I like to make. “If I can do it, anyone can!” Learn more about me here.

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