65 Dump and Go Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Recipes–want to put something into the Instant Pot or slow cooker, walk away and come back to food that is completely done? These dump and go instant pot recipes and crockpot recipes require no extra sauteing steps or broiling steps. Everything is done once you put the lid on (except for the occasional shredding of the meat or adding shredded cheese).
65 Dump and Go Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Recipes
Instant Pot dump dinners are my jam! They usually take hardly any prep time and once the up-front steps are completed it’s just a matter of pushing some buttons and walking away. These easy instant pot dinners are perfect for those busy weeknights when you want a home-cooked meal but don’t have a lot of extra time to hang out in the kitchen.
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Chicken Dump and Go Instant Pot Recipes
Honey Lime Salsa Verde Chicken
Chicken tenders infused with lots of bright flavors. Green salsa, honey, lime, and plenty of seasonings will have you licking your plate! This chicken is perfect with rice, on tortillas, wrapped up in lettuce or plain.
Cashew Chicken
This cashew chicken is just as good as your favorite Chinese restaurant. It’s super easy and flavorful and it’s all made in the comfort of your own kitchen. The instant pot speeds up the process and helps get dinner on the table in minutes.
Dijon Chicken
Tender bites of bone-in chicken thighs and mushrooms are covered in a dijon, lemon and tarragon sauce. An easy electric pressure cooker recipe that is quick to get started.
Chicken Lo Mein
An easy make-at-home version of your favorite Chinese takeout meal. Spaghetti, bites of chicken and lots of veggies are pulled together with a savory asian sauce.
Crack Chicken Chili
Addictive and delicious creamy chicken chili with bacon!
Ranch Chicken Taco Rice
An easy 5-ingredient dump and press start recipe for the Instant Pot. Rice, chicken and black beans with lots of flavor.
Creamy Chicken Rice Dinner
A simple chicken and rice dinner with carrots and spinach. It’s creamy but doesn’t have any “cream of” soups in it and takes just a few minutes to dump everything in and go.
Mango Salsa Chicken
With only 4 ingredients this will be a go-to summer recipe. It’s perfect over rice, on tortillas or over riced cauliflower.
Zesty Chicken
An easy, flavorful casserole with rice, chicken, crispy fried onions and vegetables.
Chicken Ranch Rice
Tender bites of chicken with smoky bacon, chopped spinach, parmesan cheese and creamy rice.
Chicken Rice Bowls
An easy dump and go recipe with chicken, rice (of your choice), enchilada sauce, black beans and spices. This is a perfect dinner for a busy weeknight or a good option to pack in individual containers for lunches during the week.
Maple Dijon Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
Chicken, sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts drizzled with a sauce made with maple syrup, dijon mustard, rosemary and olive oil. A simple one pot recipe with a delicious flavor!
Chicken Alfredo Salsa Pasta
The easiest recipe ever. With just four ingredients and your pressure cooker this is a perfect meal to make when you’re busy but still want to put dinner on the table! Kids and adults alike love this creamy penne pasta and will be asking for seconds.
5-Ingredient Enchilada Chicken
A fast and easy dump and go recipe. The saucy chicken can be served in tacos, burritos, salads, nachos, quesadillas or over rice.
Homestyle Chicken and Vegetables
Well seasoned chicken, green beans, red potatoes and carrots are all cooked together. A true one pot meal that is family friendly, tastes amazing and is so easy to put together.
Teriyaki Chicken
This easy chicken teriyaki recipe uses a homemade sauce made with pineapple juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic and ginger. It has the perfect balance of sweet and savory. You can even use frozen chicken! Make it a meal by serving it with rice, pineapple chunks and shredded cabbage.
Chicken Chili Mac
An easy one pot recipe for cheesy chili mac made with tender bites of chicken and two kinds of beans. A perfect easy weeknight meal and it’s made in a jiffy in your electric pressure cooker.
Salsa Verde Chicken
The perfect recipe to have in your back pocket on those days when you don’t have the time or energy to cook. With just 2 ingredients this recipe is quick and easy. It tastes great and can be served in many ways including over rice, in tacos, burritos or quesadillas or on top of salad.
Buffalo Chicken Gyros
Bleu cheese dressing is spooned down the middle of a warm pita and then topped with shredded chicken that has been stirred together with buffalo sauce. Then it’s topped with crunchy celery and bleu cheese crumbles. This is a party in your mouth!
3-Ingredient Chicken and Gravy
An almost embarrassingly easy recipe for a good old fashioned dinner. Serve the chicken and gravy over mashed potatoes, rice, noodles, toast or biscuits
Hawaiian Chicken
A super fast and easy, 5-ingredient, dump and go Instant Pot recipe of slightly sweet chicken and pineapples. Serve this chicken on Hawaiian rolls or over rice.
No Peek Chicken
That easy 3-ingredient chicken and rice recipe from your childhood that has cream of mushroom soup in it. Only this time it’s made in your Instant Pot.
Salsa Lime Chicken
So you have frozen chicken breasts in the freezer and need to make dinner? Throw them in the Instant Pot or crockpot with some salsa, lime juice and some seasonings and you’ll get perfectly shreddable chicken that you can serve in burritos, enchiladas, tacos, salads or quesadillas. Dinner can’t get easier than this!
Chicken Fajita Rice
A throw everything into the Instant Pot and walk away meal! Flavorful rice and chicken that has all the great flavors from chicken fajitas! Make it with brown or white rice.
Fiesta Lime Chicken
Shredded chicken with a creamy, flavorful sauce that’s made quickly in your Instant Pot. And you can make rice at the same time in the same pot to serve with the chicken. An easy dinner for any night of the week.
Firecracker Chicken
Sweet and spicy tender pieces of saucy chicken made quickly in your electric pressure cooker.
Garlic Mushroom Chicken
A creamy sauce is spooned over mushrooms, tender bites of chicken (and optional broccoli). A delicious dump and go recipe that you can make with frozen chicken.
Green Chile Chicken Orzo Soup
A creamy chicken soup with orzo and green chiles. It’s got cream cheese and avocados for creaminess and lots of flavor from diced green chiles and salsa verde. An easy dump and go recipe.
White Chicken Lasagna
A cheater, dump and go lasagna recipe with Alfredo sauce, lasagna noodles, chunks of chicken, spinach and Parmesan cheese. This recipe is made quickly in your electric pressure cooker.
Creamy Salsa Chicken
Tender bites of chicken with an amazing sauce of just 3 ingredients: salsa, lime juice, and sour cream. This chicken and sauce tastes great over rice or rolled up in a tortilla. Plus it’s so fast and easy to make, you can even use frozen chicken.
Honey Mustard Chicken Sandwiches
Tender shredded chicken coated with a honey mustard sauce and then served with pickles on top of freshly baked buns.
Café Rio Chicken
This quickly cooked shredded chicken is perfect to serve with your Mexican dinners on salads, in burritos, in enchiladas or over rice.
Chicken Adobo
An easy 6-ingredient recipe for the tastiest chicken ever! A Filipino recipe of tender chicken thighs braised in vinegar and soy sauce with lots of garlic.
Sausage Dump and Go Instant Pot Recipes
Garlic Parmesan Sausage Chowder
A colorful and flavorful summer chowder with garlic, smoked sausage, parmesan cheese, corn, potatoes, green beans and carrots. Your whole family will love this soup!
Sausage, Sweet Potatoes and Broccoli
A flavorful, healthy-ish and easy dump-and-go meal with just a handful of ingredients. This will quickly become a family favorite!
Smoked Sausage, Green Beans and Potatoes
The easiest meal with the most amazing results. Smoked sausage, fresh green beans, cubed potatoes and a couple of seasonings are cooked together quickly in your electric pressure cooker for an easy one pot, dump and press start meal.
Smoked Sausage Country Boil
A one pot meal with tender red potatoes, sweet corn, fresh green beans and smoked sausage. A perfect summer meal with tons of flavor.
Garlic Chicken Sausage Orzo
Orzo pasta with a tangy dijon-balsamic sauce, chicken smoked sausage, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers and parmesan cheese. Loads of flavor and an all in one pot dinner!
Alfredo Sausage Pasta
Flavorful bites of smoked sausage with a creamy sauce that envelopes spaghetti noodles.
Instant Pot Penne in Cajun Mustard Cream Sauce
A quick and easy weeknight meal. With options to prepare it with andouille sausage or meatless you can make everyone happy.
Smoked Sausage with Parmesan and Orzo
Smoked sausage, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, orzo and parmesan cheese cooked quickly in your pressure cooker. This meal is loaded with flavor and is a dump and go one pot meal.
Beef Dump and Go Instant Pot Recipes
3-Ingredient Meatballs
These meatballs are a perfect appetizer. With only 3 ingredients and the use of your Instant Pot they literally take 3 minutes of hands-on time. They are super flavorful with a little bit of savory and a little bit of sweetness.
Tender Salsa Beef
A super easy 5 ingredient and 5 minute prep recipe. A Mexican twist on comfort food.
Cheater Beef Stew
If you’re looking for the easiest beef stew recipe you may have found it! This recipe is made quickly in your Instant Pot and requires little to no prep and only 5 ingredients. No sauteing, chopping or browning. And best of all it tastes great!
BBQ Beef Sandwiches
Tender shredded beef with an easy homemade barbecue sauce served on a toasted bun. An easy and delicious dinner!
3 Packet Roast
A super easy way to make an incredibly tender and flavored roast. You’ll just need a packet of ranch, Italian dressing mix and brown gravy along with a chuck roast for this recipe. If you prefer to make homemade versions of these “packets” I have those recipes for you too!
Garlic Beef
Fork tender roast beef that is flavored with garlic and other filipino adobo flavors. This recipe only has 6 ingredients. It’s perfect to serve on rolls or over rice for a quick and easy dinner that can feed a crowd.
3-Ingredient Rump Roast
An easy beginner recipe for the Instant Pot. Beef pot roast is cooked until tender in the electric pressure cooker. If desired you can also make carrots and potatoes with the roast.
Meatballs
You can make meatballs in your electric pressure cooker or slow cooker! They’re tender and taste great served over pasta and sprinkled with parmesan cheese. This is a hands off recipe that takes just a few minutes to cook. Try making these with ground turkey, beef, pork, chicken or a combination.
Cheater Korean Beef and Brown Rice
A quick version of a classic recipe made in your electric pressure cooker. The best part is that the beef and rice cook at the same time in the same Instant Pot.
Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches
The easiest recipe to make ever. With only 5 ingredients total (beef, broth, onion soup mix, cheddar and sandwich buns) you may be thinking that this recipe is just too easy to taste good. Well, you’re wrong! The flavor is amazing and your family will be asking for seconds.
Dump and Go Pork Recipes
Sour Cream Pork Chops
Tasty pork chops with hardly any ingredients. The creamy sauce tastes amazing! This recipe is low carb and gluten free.
Instant Pot Marinated Pork Chops
Just throw some pork chops in a bag with some easy homemade marinade and refrigerate or freeze. Then toss the pork chops into your Instant Pot, push a button and walk away. The easiest pork chops ever. Plus they have tons of flavor!
Savory Pork Burrito Bowls
Perfectly tender and shreddable 5 ingredient pork is cooked quickly in your Instant Pot and then served with rice, guacamole, black beans, sour cream and more of your favorite toppings.
Pork Chop Fajitas
Make amazingly flavorful fajitas (thanks to a secret ingredient) in the Instant Pot or slow cooker with pork chops. When you buy those inexpensive mega packs of pork chops use this recipe to mix up dinner and bring something new to the table (literally).
Creamy Mushroom Sauce Pork
The easiest recipe ever. With only 2 ingredients the prep for this pork dinner is minimal. Plus you make it in the slow cooker or Instant Pot so it’s completely a hands-off recipe.
Dump and Go Meatless or Seafood Recipes
Dakota Smashed Pea and Barley Soup
A hearty split pea soup with barley, carrots, onions, savory herbs and green onions. This is a copycat recipe of the popular vegan soup sold at California Pizza Kitchen.
Mexican Quinoa and Black Beans
Flavorful quinoa with salsa, black beans and sliced avocado. A fast and easy meatless meal or an amazing side dish.
Homemade Rice-A-Roni
Do you love “the San Francisco treat” but want to make it from scratch? Make this super easy version of Rice-A-Roni in your Instant Pot! It’s the perfect side dish for so many meals.
Mexican Black Beans and Rice
The easiest and tastiest rice ever! Brown rice is cooked in flavorful salsa with garlic salt, a bay leaf and cumin. Canned black beans make this recipe very convenient. And my favorite part is a squeeze of lime juice and a dollop of sour cream on top. Make this as a meal or as a side dish.
Lemon Rice
Greek-inspired lemon rice is perfect to serve as a side dish or with chicken. It’s flavor is subtle, but delicious.
Cheesy Enchilada Rice
Brown rice is pressure cooked with enchilada sauce and spices in minutes and then topped with sharp cheddar, diced avocado and a wedge of lime.
Santa Fe Beans and Rice
Brown rice, kidney beans and black beans are simmered with salsa, corn and seasonings. The beans and rice are topped with garlic lime sour cream and grated cheddar cheese. You can serve this as a meatless meal or add in chicken for some extra protein. We love this easy and healthy, family friendly meal.
Lemon Butter Garlic Salmon with Homestyle Vegetables
Flaky wild Alaska salmon is steamed on the top of red potatoes and carrots in your electric pressure cooker and drizzled with garlic, fresh lemon juice and butter. A one pot meal that is healthy and delicious!
Alfredo Salsa Tortellini
Creamy and slightly spicy cheesy tortellini prepared in about one minute using your slow cooker.
Related: Check out all my recipes with 5 ingredients or less and one-pot meals
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Would love to see a note at the end of our recipes as to whether the recipe is suitable for MINI or if it needs to be halved.
I use mini for Karen’s recipes. If it fits & you don’t go past the max fill line, you can make the full recipe. I ALWAYS half Karen’s recipes for mini (cook for 1-2). Half all ingredients, keep cook times & pressure release times the same as full recipe. Perfect every time & have never had one go wrong. Any of Karen’s recipes work in the mini. Hope this helps!
Love your recipes. Can you please indicate it if the recipe is suitable for the MINI instant pot and the timing.
Thanks.
Just stumbled upon your site and saved many recipes to try. Thank you!! My mouth is salivating in anticipation.
Thanks for being here! I suggest signing up for my email list: https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/join-the-365-days-email-list/
I AM VERY IMPRESSED WITH YOUR WEBSITE. NAVIGATING AND PRINTING RECIPES IS THE BEST OF ANY OTHER SITE.
I’M SO GLAD I DISCOVERED YOU.
Glad you found me too Judy! Thanks for being here.
What happened to the Crock-Pot instant dinners? I xcan’t find them and cooking for one , they make it economical
I’ve never heard of those Arleen. Tell me more about them!
Love all your recipes. I look forward to your email everyday. You’re Recipes and a good cup of coffee. What a way to start the day. Love all your creamy recipes but the scale is now saying lighter recipes is needed and summertime in Florida is hot and humid need lighter version of your great recipes. Can you help please.
Yes I will start making more summer type foods!
Just want to thank you so much for the yummy IP recipes. So glad I found you!
Hooray Linda I’m glad you’re here!
I just bought an Instant Pot and love your recipes. I also just started my own blog about the RV lifestyle and an instant pot is a must have. I would like to post a link to your website from mine and recommend others to come here for recipes if that is ok with you?
Great! Sounds like an adventure 🙂
I have the crockpot casserole. Would love to use it more but sure which recipe to use it for. Can you let us know in your recipes when that would be an option? Thanks so much!
Here are some recipes:
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-chicken-curry-broccoli-casserole/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-bacon-cheddar-egg-casserole/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-green-bean-casserole/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-buffalo-chicken-rice-casserole/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-chicken-parmesan-lasagna-casserole/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-homemade-cocktail-meatballs/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-cheesy-chicken-broccoli-rice-casserole/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-lemon-chicken-meatball-wraps-with-spicy-garlic-sauce/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-greek-chicken-and-red/
https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/slow-cooker-cinnamon-rolls/
My large family of 8 growing kids (pre-teens and teens) have made it necessary for me to find a larger option than my 8 qt slow cooker. I am now the proud owner of a 14 qt GoWise electric pressure cooker/slow cooker. I am totally in like with my new kitchen appliance.
WHOA!!! That thing must be huge!
I love to use my Instant Pot. Your recipes are always interesting. I would love more casserole recipes.
Thanks Edna! I will work on more casserole recipes 🙂
Would love more Instant Pot Recipes