Recipe This | Pressure Cooker Beets (Instant Pot Beetroot) (2024)

Pressure Cooker Beets. Let me show you how to make beets the fast way in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. Once cooked, our Instant Pot Beetroot can be pickled using our quick pickle method or eaten as is.

Pressure Cooker Beets

Whether you live in Europe and call it Beetroot or are on the other side of the Atlantic and just call it Beets, it is one of those perfect single food items for cooking in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker.

Pressure Cooker Beetshas always passed me by, one of those foods that I have never bothered to eat,well until now.

You know how it is.

We all have favourite fruit and vegetables. There are justso many in different cultures around the world, that its hard to have tried thelot.

Fruit & Veg Iwant to try but haven’t include:

• Fennel
• Artichokes
• Spaghetti Squash

But there are so many fruits and veg that I eat all the timethat it never feels like I go without.

But beets have been available to me for a while, and as a child I must admit I avoided them. Kids eat with their eyes and treat anything remotely different with suspicion.

I was always guilty of that and as a kid whenever anyone offered me beetroot (as I knew it as) I would flatly refuse. Well I FINALLY gave it a go recently and loved my pressure cooker beets. I can’t imagine future salads without them now AND my kids loved them.

Pressure Cooker Beets (made simple)

There is something that shouts out simplicity when you cookbeets in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker.

The method to cooking Pressure Cooker Beets is so easy youwill be waiting for the difficult stage to come along BUT there isn’t one!

To make PressureCooker Beets YOU:

• Top and tail your beets
• Place the beets in the Instant Pot on the shelf with some water
• Pressure cook and then use QPR
• Peel and eat

I should also add that you can pickle your pressure cooker beets as well if you like them pickled and they can stay fresh in the fridge in a jar of water.

How To Pickle Your Pressure Cooker Beets

If you would like to pickle your pressure cooker beets, thenall you need to do is:

Place into a glass mason jar 125ml of apple cider vinegar, 62.5ml of cold water, 2tbsp of honey and a little salt and pepper. Shake well and add in your sliced beets.

Leave it overnight so that the beets have a chance to pickle properly and tuck in.

More Pressure Cooker Vegetables

My favourite use of my Instant Pot Pressure Cooker is steaming vegehtables and no need to stop at pressure cooker beets as the world is your oyster.

My ultimate favourite vegetable is InstantPot Broccoli as it only takes 2 minutes and you have beautiful tenderbroccoli afterwards.

But apart from InstantPot Broccoli you could also try:

• Instant Pot Rutabaga (aka swede)
• Instant Pot Carrots
• Instant Pot Cabbage
• Instant Pot Cauliflower
• Instant Pot Turnips

Pressure Cooker Beets Hacks

It can be really dauntingto cook pressure cooker beets for the first time, so are a few pointers to getyou started:

Beets Cooking Time – The cooking time is based on a medium sized beet like you see in the photo below. If your beets are small reduce cooking time by 20% and if it is large, then increase by 20%.

Peel Beets With A VegetableKnife – We see a lot of Instant Pot Beets recipes that call for peeling thebeets once cool with your hand and that the skin just comes off. We found thatthis was not the case, but it was so quick to use a vegetable knife and peel itourselves.

3 Beets Is Plenty – We found that 3 beets went a long way. We chopped 3 up and realised it would last ages. If you’re just making a family salad one small beet will be enough.

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