15 Apple Recipes For Instant Pot Pressure Cooker

Something wonderful happens when fall comes around. The colour of things subtly changes and then, it happens all at once. The shelves of the grocery store and the leaves of the trees all begin to bloom in seasonal reds, greens, and yellows. Our meals follow suit, containing more winter squash, hearty, slow-cooked (or pressure cooked) meats, stews, and chilis, and more apples. Fall’s sweet delight! You know how many varieties there are, and just how much fun it is to go pick them by hand at a local orchard. Eating with the seasons is doubly fun when you have an Instant Pot.

Here are are favourite Instant Pot recipes that use apples!

Instant Pot Apple Dumplings from Taste of Lizzy T

Are you drooling yet? We’re kicking this recipe roundup off on a strong note, served a la mode. Apple dumplings are warm, cinnamon-infused, dough-y, pastries filled with piping brown sugar and hot apple, and the only way to do it is with a scoop of vanilla bean on top. The IP will whip this charming and rustic dessert up in 30 minutes – start to finish.

Pressure Cooker Spiced Apple Butter from Pressure Cooking Today

It doesn’t get much more autumnal than blending our two favourite ingredients – pumpkin and apple. This butter is easily made in the IP without the hassle of actually ‘canning,’ so it’s a great way to preserve the taste of fall, or pass it on as a gift. It’s extraordinary spread over a slice of warm, crusty bread or as a dip for butter crackers, but it will also make a nice addition to yoghurt or oatmeal. Enjoy it year-round!

Paleo Apple Glazed Turkey Meatballs from Once A Month Meals

You always want to give meatballs a closer look, because you never know what they’re going to be hiding! They’re pretty discreet, with only subtle flavours and textures popping out to you in each bite. This is one of those recipes. Each bite has a little grated onion and green apple in it, and you’ll love the sweet and savoury glaze over top. These are a good freezer staple.

Instant Pot Apple Crisp from Home Pressure Cooking

Making a crisp is the perfect idea for those of us who can’t be bothered with a cake, a pie, or anything that needs to hold its form, really. Crisp doesn’t need to be shapely to taste good. Part of its charm is that it’s a bit messy and a bit disheveled. Apples, oats, a little flour, a little butter, and some warm spices are all you need. Oh, and like with dumplings, you need the ice cream!

Instant Pot 3-Minute Apple Sauce from Recipes 2 Nourish

Can you believe something that would generally take all day takes just three minutes? Turn on the Instant Pot and let it warm those apples up into a beautiful sauce. This is one of its most impressive purposes! This is great to have on hand because it works just as well in recipes as it does for a quick snack or addition to the kid’s lunchboxes.

Breakfast Apple & Cranberry Steel Cut Oats from Kitchen Stewardship

If you’re looking at less dessert and a little more breakfast, these decadent, warming oats are the answer. Making really good, creamy, and dense steel cut oats in the IP is easy breezy, and adding in your favourite toppings like chopped apple and cranberry makes for effortless infusion in this autumnal porridge bowl.

Pressure Cooker Baked Apples from Hip Pressure Cooking

Baked apples are a no-fuss dessert for any occasion. You can choose to top them off with some ice cream or stuff them with a buttery crumble mixture, or you can have them plain. Either way, this is a healthy solution to your sweet tooth during apple season.

Braised Red Cabbage & Apple from Gluten-Free Pressure Cooker

Braised cabbage is an underrated dish. It’s cheap to make, pretty to serve, and versatile. You can switch up the spices you use, the liquid you choose to braise the cabbage, and choose optional add-ins. This fall, consider tossing in some chopped apple to the mix. There isn’t much we don’t like making just a little sweet, and this veggie side is no exception!

Instant Pot Apple Honey Pork Tenderloin from Meal Plan Addict

Apples just go with pork, as well as with poultry and light game meat. There’s a variety of reasons why it’s true, but we’re not really getting into those today. We’re just showing you how awesome this combination’s potential is. Jazz up your usual pork tenderloin recipe with this variation for the IP featuring apples and honey. The IP will get the pork more tender than you’ve ever had it, too.

Honeycrisp Apple & Raisin Steel Cut Oats from Zen & Spice

If you went around asking people, “What’s your favourite apple?,” honeycrisp is bound to come up over and over. It’s a seriously tasty apple. It’s SO sweet and delicious, it’s what red delicious wished it could be. If you’ve never tried this variety before, the perfect introduction is this bowl of apple and raisin oats.

Instant Pot Apple Cake from Two Sleevers

Some people like pie, and some people like cake. Personally, we’re torn. Apple pie is good and all, but if you’ve never made a good apple cake, let the Instant Pot help. It’s a bit more dense on the bottom and moist throughout, giving you more to work with in terms of packing in that apple-cinnamon flavour. Thin slices of apple rounds top the cake off. Your family will swoon over this holiday-worthy dessert!

Pork Loin with Sauerkraut and Apples from Dr. Kellyann

There is something great about pork and kraut – and not just on New Year’s Day! This is a lovely winter dinner featuring affordable, humble ingredients that you won’t get bored with. Plus, kraut lends its gut-friendly bacteria for a probiotic fix. Adding sweet to the sour just balances things out with this one, and it looks amazing!

Butternut Squash & Apple Soup from Our Food Fix (Vegan, Paleo)

Apple is an underrated addition to soup. With such a wide variety, you can probably see how it lends its sweetness or tartness to a blended soup beautifully, especially one whose primary ingredient is butternut squash. These two ingredients play well together. Watch out – it’s addictive! Batch cook this, and freeze some for the off-season.

Pressure Cooker Apple Cider from The Homemade Cook

You have to celebrate fall’s arrival with some apple cider! Whether you like it hot or cold, plain or spiked, it’s easy to mull the spices and necessary flavours into your cider with the Instant Pot.

Instant Pot Cinnamon Apples from This Pilgrim Life

Like baked apples, a simple chunky apple mix (like a chunky applesauce) with cinnamon can be a great warm dessert to tuck into. You could also bake these ahead of time for a tasty pancake or waffle topping, or stir some into steel cut oats.

Who is as excited for apple season as we are!? There’s so much to make with this tasty fruit whether you like red or green or anything in between. Sweet or savoury – you choose. 

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