Easy Instant Pot Dinners for Busy Families #2

Is omitting the truth really a lie if it entails vegetables?

During the influx of meetings I realized I didn’t plan dinner. I had 15 minutes until my next meeting so I pulled out my trusty Instant Pot (I really do have a stove) and tossed dinner together. I had chopped veggies I bought late last week and tossed them into the Instant Pot on sauté mode with a bit of olive oil and chicken broth, and cooked them up until they were nice and done.

Here comes where the omission will take place. I added more chicken broth in and pureed all those veggies up until they were unrecognizable. Remember, I have 3 kids, all different levels of vegetable hatred. So now my veggies are now more of a base for dinner stew of sorts.

I opened the fridge to see what else I had and found ground turkey. I poured my new base into a different container and tossed in the ground meat into the pot again on sauté mode with some olive oil, a little chicken broth, and seasonings (garlic and onion powder, salt and pepper, a some Italian seasoning) and cooked it up quickly before adding the base back in. I looked back at the time and realized I had minute to go before my next call. I turned the pot to slow cook and closed it.

After work, I grabbed some frozen gnocchi from Trader Joe’s, heated it before adding it into pot with my base and the leftover ricotta cheese we had. Super fast and easy dinner on the countertop – ready for any kid to eat after practice.

And did they eat it? They scraped their bowls clean. Success! Did i tell them about the veggies? Nope. Did they already request this meal for next week? Yes.

Recipe: Ground turkey and Gnocchi

Ingredients

• 1 packaged of prechopped carrots/celery/onion
• 1 container of chicken broth
• Olive oil
• Seasoning to taste (salt, pepper, italian season, onion powder, garlic powder)
• 1 package of frozen gnocchi, you can use any type of pasta you like – just cooked about 10 minutes before serving. Gnocchi holds its consistency as it made from a potato.
• Ricotta cheese – if you have it. If you don’t, it’s still really good.

Directions

1. Sauté chopped veggies with 1/3 container of chicken broth and and about 1 tbsp olive oil until cooked (onions will be more translucent).
2. Pull to the side and puree.
3. Cook ground turkey with olive oil (around 1 tbsp) and 1/3 container of chicken broth with seasonings (start with less and build the seasonings).
4. Once ground turkey is cooked, add in remaining chicken broth and puree base and mix well. You can leave this on slow cook for the day to give the flavors a chance to develop.
5. About 10 minutes before it’s time to serve, cook gnocchi (or pasta) as directions states and then add to your pot.

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