Friday, January 31, 2020

IP Cooking: Teriyaki Chicken

This is the first recipe I tried from my new IP Recipe Book.

It called for chicken stock. My mom had homemade chicken stock at home.

It called for chicken skinless/boneless breast. I had bone in chicken but my mom cut out the bone.

I added pineapples for more colour and flavour.

Overall it was tasty. But I would make the following changes:
- add more teriyaki sauce, maybe 50% more
- instead of 1/2 cup of chicken stock, used water 

Monday, January 27, 2020

IP Cooking: Pasta

Yesterday (Jan 26, 2019) was my first time making pasta in my InstaPot. I made shells with alfredo sauce.

Ingredients:
1 bag of 500 grams of shell pasta
1 can of 410 mL alfredo sauce
4.5 cups of water (or a bit more to cover the top of the pasta)
pinch of salt and pepper
1 tbsp of butter
Parmesan cheese

1. pour all items in the instant pot
2. stir
3. set to Manual/Pressure cooker for 4 mins, NR for 9 mins then release
4. pour some parmesan cheese on and stir

It came out too soggy / mushy.

What I can do next time:
- use less water
- NR for less time
- use more alfredo sauce