Looking for the best Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Copycat Recipes on the web? I’ve got 23 copycat recipes that you can make at home in your own kitchen.

Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Copycat Recipes
Do you love eating out but don’t love what it does to your budget? You can eat well at home! And it doesn’t have to be hard or expensive. These copycat recipes can be made in your Instant Pot or slow cooker and taste pretty close to the real thing.
Cafe Rio Instant Pot Recipes
Café Rio Chicken–this shredded chicken is perfect to serve with your Mexican dinners on salads, in burritos, in enchiladas or over rice.

Cafe Rio Cilantro Lime Rice–this quickly cooked seasoned rice made in you pressure cooker is just like Cafe Rio’s and it makes the perfect addition to any Mexican dish for dinner.

Creamy Tomatillo Ranch Dressing–This Cafe Rio-style dressing is so addictive and tastes awesome for up to a week!
Smothered Green Sauce Enchiladas–homemade Cafe Rio style mild tomatillo sauce is simmered in your electric pressure cooker along with chicken breasts to create the base of your enchiladas.

Cafe Rio Sweet Pork—make your favorite restaurant’s sweet pork at home with just a handful of ingredients. This pulled pork is perfect over salad, rice, tacos, burritos, quesadillas or on a toasted bun.

Cafe Rio Black Beans–These black beans will be a hit at your next Mexican dinner.

Olive Garden Instant Pot Recipes
Zuppa Toscana–It tastes better than the restaurant and is really fast and easy to make.

Pasta E Fagioli Soup–your favorite soup from Olive Garden made quickly at home in your pressure cooker or slow cooker. White and red beans, ground beef, tomatoes and pasta in a savory broth.
Chicken Gnocchi Soup–A cream based soup with tender, moist bites of chicken, bacon crumbles, bright green leafy kale and dumpling-like gnocchi. This soup is a 10 out of 10 at my house.

More Copycat Recipes…
Instant Pot 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.

Instant Pot Skyline Chili Cheese Coneys–a hot dog in a steamed bun with mustard, covered with copy cat Skyline chili, diced onions and a mound of shredded cheddar cheese.

Instant Pot Runzas—a Nebraska favorite, Runzas are a cross between a hot pocket and a burger. Ground beef, onions and cabbage are wrapped in a yeast dough and baked, resulting in a savory pastry.

Kentucky Hot Brown Sandwich from the Brown Hotel in Louisville is an open faced turkey sandwich on Texas toast drizzled with a Romano cheese sauce and topped with crispy bacon. Your Instant Pot cooks a frozen turkey breast in an expedited manner to use for this addicting sandwich.

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 slow cooker or pressure cooker!

Homemade Hamburger Helper–with just a little more effort than making a boxed meal you can have a homemade creamy tomato basil beef pasta meal. And with the help of your Instant Pot it takes just a few minutes.

Panera Bread’s Broccoli Cheddar Soup–reminiscent of Panera Bread’s broccoli cheddar soup this pressure cooker or slow cooker version has chopped broccoli, shredded carrots and celery simmered in a velvety smooth cheese sauce. I believe this version is just as good or better than you could order at any restaurant! Try it for dinner this week.

Instant Pot Maid-Rite Sandwiches from Maid Rite restaurants in Iowa are seasoned, simmered flavorful loose ground beef sandwiches served with mustard and a pickle.

Zupa’s Cafe Wisconsin Cauliflower Soup–A creamy, cheesy, crockpot cauliflower soup that is similar to the version served at Cafe Zupas.
This soup is best when served with crumbled bacon on top!

PF Chang’s Lettuce Wraps–Ground chicken, mushrooms, green onion, water chestnuts and crispy rice sticks all rolled up into crisp leaves of lettuce.
Starbucks Instant Pot Egg Bites—crust-less quiche-like bites of eggs, cheese and whatever mix-ins you want. They’re protein packed and a perfect portable breakfast.

Panda Express Instant Pot Fried Rice–easy recipe for fried rice made quickly in your Instant Pot. Just like what you’d order at Panda Express!

Panda Express Orange Chicken–tender bites of chicken in a flavorful orange sauce.

Instant Pot Chicago Italian Beef Sandwich—thinly sliced seasoned roast beef piled onto a bun with flavorful juices and some pickled vegetables. An amazing sandwich with tons of flavor!

And here are some copycat recipes from other bloggers that you may like…
Instant Pot Copycat Taco Bell Beef from The Salty Pot
Instant Pot Cracker Barrel Chicken and Dumplings from A Little Moore
Instant Pot Copycat Chipotle Barbacoa Beef from 12 Tomatoes
Instant Pot Artichoke and Spinach Dip Applebees Copycat from Adventures of a Nurse
Slow Cooker Copycat Chili’s Queso Dip from The Food Charlatan
Slow Cooker Wendy’s Chili from Runs for Cookies
What’s missing? Tell me! Is there a dish from a restaurant that you’d love to make at home? Maybe I could create it in my slow cooker or Instant Pot. Good fits are soups, braised dishes, some desserts, pasta dishes, etc.
Do you have a copy cat recipe for Wendy’s chili….I pullled up the link that you had but I can not get it to load. Plus it is for the crock pot. Love your recipes and can’t wait to order your cookbook….
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family…
I don’t but this one looks great: https://copykat.com/instant-pot-wendys-chili/
Thanks Karen. I gotta tell you, making chile in the instant pot is so easy and so quick… and added bonus, the flavor is amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You’re welcome Betty!!
I love cornstarch pudding. If you do it in the microwave, it takes about 10-12 minutes but you have a lot of stirring to do. If you make it on the stove, it takes just that much longer along with the stirring thing. It is a really good pudding.
I also really like Olive Garden’s Quesa dip, but they have taken it off the menu. Served along with tortilla chips and it is really good. Do miss it though.
Any chance a pressure cooker could make either one of those. I have a Living Well Pressure Cooker that I have had since 2011, so all the preset buttons are not really available on mine.
I made a vanilla pudding in the Instant Pot for banana pudding. You could use that method: https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/instant-pot-banana-pudding/
and this queso dip is fantastic: https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/arkansas-cheese-dip/
Thanks Karen. I did realize that the dip was from Apple Bees, not Olive Garden, but it was good and I will most certainly try this recipe above. The vanilla pudding sounds good so can’t wait to try that. Thank you.
You’re welcome!
I wonder if you can copy the Mushroom Bisque Soup at Zupas and the Mangoberry Salad and dressing on the Menue. I love following your recipes. You are an amazing cook!
Both of those sound so good! I need to try them 😊
My IP has saved me from having to slave in the kitchen all day and your recipe are to die for. Thank you so much for your e-mails and your U-Tube page. I don’t know what I do without my IP. You have maded me a very happy woman.
Thanks Donna! This is so nice to hear 🙂
Your recipes save my sanity, I check in to see what you have going on and if its in my cupboard, ITS dinner, and I usually have 1to 11/2 hr to have dinner ready, I’m a nurse and I get home @ 730pm my husband gets in at 9pm dinner is at 930pm. So thank you for your hard work. To make my life easier.
Keep up the good work.
Oh how nice to hear! That is a late dinner! Glad you are making it happen 🙂
A copy cat recipe for KFC chicken
Can you convert the chili recipe into an IP recipe please. Thanks
On my list of things to do!
I’d love to have a recipe for McAllister’s chili. It’s amazing!
I’m not familiar with McAllister’s chili but I want to be!
I have fallen in love with California Pizza Kitchen’s split pea and barley soup. It would make me so happy to be able to replicate it at home. I have been having it frequently at the CPK restaurant at the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas in case their other restaurants don’t serve the same recipe. Thanks, Doris
Wow, I so relate!! My favorite soup! CPK had a cookbook for sale once, but omitted this amazing soup! Our CPK here in Southern California serves it. Would love to make it!
Okay I’m totally on it!
This looks similar? I’m sure it could be adapted to make in slow cooker or IP, or at least most of it https://archive.jsonline.com/features/recipes/57648067.html
Wow that sounds really tasty and something that would be fairly easy to make in the slow cooker or instant pot! Thanks for the suggestion.