Instant Pot Empty Your Pantry Soup

Instant Pot Empty Your Pantry Soup—head to your pantry and clean it out with this soup recipe. There are lots of substitutions and ways to mix and match this soup.

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Instant Pot Empty Your Pantry Soup

When I’m falling short on fresh groceries I automatically turn to my pantry and freezer and give it a look. What’s in there? What can I put together without having to hit the grocery store? A lot of times these items come together in a soup. And most of the time the soup is actually pretty dang good.

Today’s recipe for Instant Pot Empty Your Pantry Soup is a matter of picking and choosing which ingredients you have and which sound good to you. Here is a formula for how to make your pantry soup…

Pick a broth:

• 8 cups of chicken broth
• 8 cups of beef broth
• 8 cups of veggie broth
• 8 cups of water and 8 tsp of Better Than Bouillon Base (whatever flavor you like best–chicken, beef, veggie, garlic, etc.).

Pick a protein:

• 1 ½ pounds of uncooked chicken breasts or thighs or 1 pound cooked chicken (such as rotisserie).
• 1 ½ pounds of ground beef, turkey, sausage or chicken that has been browned.
• A bag of frozen meatballs
• A couple packages of smoked sausage that has been sliced into quarter inch rounds

Pick a type of beans/legumes:

• Can of kidney beans
• Can of black beans
• Can of pinto beans
• Can of chickpeas
• Can of navy beans
• Can of black eyed peas
• Can of chili beans or chili

Pick veggies:

• Can of corn or frozen corn
• Can of diced tomatoes
• Can of green beans or frozen green beans
• Frozen mixed veggies
• Frozen cauliflower

Pick a starch:

• 1 cup of white rice, parboiled rice, jasmine rice, basmati rice or brown rice
• 8 oz of macaroni, cellentani, orzo, wagon wheels, shells, ditalini, rotini or cavatappi
• 1 ½ pounds cubed potatoes

Pick a seasoning mix:

• 3 Tbsp (a packet) taco seasoning
• 1 packet of dry ranch dressing mix
• 1 packet of dry Italian dressing mix
• 1 packet onion soup mix
• Mix and match spices, salt and pepper from your cabinet

Add in any extras:

• Canned or fresh mushrooms
• Sliced black olives
• Green chiles
• Red or green bell pepper
• Garlic cloves
• Chopped onions
• Chopped celery

Pressure cook:

Take into consideration that the pot will take a long time to come to pressure because of the amount of liquid and how full the pot is. The whole time the pot is pressurizing the food will be cooking. So this will require you to use a short pressure cooking time. For example, I used frozen chicken breasts and they were fully cooked with only a 3 minute pressure cooking time. I used the SOUP button on my pressure cooker since it is supposed to not heat the bottom of the pot as much because it knows that nobody is stirring the soup during the cooking process.

Top it off with:

• Shredded cheese (cheddar, mexican blend, colby, pepper jack, monterey jack, parmesan, mozzarella)
• Sour cream or greek yogurt
• Cilantro
• Green onions or scallions
• Diced avocados
• Salt and pepper and extra seasoning to taste

When you make your version of Instant Pot empty your pantry soup please leave a comment below and let me know which items you used and how it worked out! I’m dying to know.

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