Recipe This | Instant Pot 2 Minute Steamed Broccoli (2024)

Instant Pot Broccoli.How to steam broccoli in just 2 minutes in your Instant Pot PressureCooker. One of our all time favourite vegetables to cook in the Instant Pot, sodelicious, yet quick and easy.

Instant Pot Broccoli was the first ever recipe we published usingthe Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. Originally published in January 2017 it hasnow been updated.

Instant Pot Broccoli

Introducing you to my famous InstantPot 2 Minute Steamed Broccoli recipe. It is so famous that even the pictureof it on the fork gets copied all over the internet!

How about some delicious freshly cooked broccoli cooked in the Instant Pot in just 2 short minutes?

We all complain that we don’thave the time to cook fresh delicious food, don’t we? That we have our superbusy lives and the idea of cooking from fresh ingredients each day is just waytoo time consuming.

Then you spend 5 minutes readinga takeaway menu and another 5 minutes on the telephone ordering it, for atakeaway to arrive 30 minutes later and to your disappointment the delivery isall wrong and cold.

But what if I told you that thefirst recipe that I wanted to share with you from mybrand new Instant Potis actually some simplesteamed broccoli that you can cook in just 2 minutes?

Yes REALLY!

You would probably think I was crackers and that I needed shipping off the funny farm and when Dominic cooked it in our Instant Pot in just 2 minutes I thought he was crackers too!

But we are seriously addicted to this recipe and we will be sharing with you how to cook steamed broccoli (or any vegetable for that matter) right now.

We will also show you how to use a simple recipe like steamed broccoli to build up your confidence and make you see that cooking in the Instant Pot or any other electric pressure cooker is easier than you would think!

Instant Pot Perfect Broccoli

Instant Pot Broccoli is so simpleto cook in the Instant Pot. I hate vegetables that have been boiled on thestove as they tend to have that tasteless flavour and have lost all their nutrients.

But if you cook broccoli in theInstant Pot it tastes like the best ever restaurant standard broccoli and isnot mushy at all.

You also cook Instant PotBroccoli in 4 simple steps:

• Step #1 – Trim your broccoli into florets
• Step #2 – Place the broccoli into your steamer basket on yourtrivet
• Step #3 – Pour your stock or water over the broccoli
• Step #4 – Set the valve to sealing on your Instant Pot and letthe Instant Pot do the hard work for you!

Instant Pot Broccoli Cooking Times

When it comes to cooking broccoliin the Instant Pot, there has often been a debate over the correct cookingtime. We have cooked it from 0 minutes to 3 minutes to give you the bestbreakdown of cooking times depending on how you like your broccoli.

• 0 Minutes= raw broccoli that is warm and none of it has had the chance to soften. If I had it served like this at a restaurant, I would certainly send it back.
• 1 Minute= just under cooked and the stem of the broccoli is very crunchy, and you could break a tooth or two.
• 2 Minutes= perfect broccoli. The stem of the floret is perfect and so is the rest of the broccoli.
• 3 Minutes= the broccoli is mushy and over done in my opinion, though you might like it mushy. I do find that 3 minutes is the perfect time if you want to make broccoli soup though.

Instant Pot Recipes – The Outtakes

For a bit of fun this is what we said about making broccoliin the Instant Pot, after the first time doing so back in late 2016.

I am sat in the lounge on the laptop watching TV while Sofia isplaying with her new baby dolly. Dominic is about to use the Instant Pot forthe first time and mentions that it better be good with all the money is hascost as he goes off to steam some broccoli.

He comes back 5 minutes later with the line “I just cookedbroccoli in 2 minutes” and “this is some serious bit of kit”.

I think we are safe to say he is a fan!

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More Steamed Instant Pot Vegetables

• Instant Pot Asparagus
• Instant Pot Brussel Sprouts
• Instant Pot Butternut Squash
• Instant Pot Cabbage
• Instant Pot Carrots
• Instant Pot Cauliflower
• Instant Pot Leeks
• Instant Pot Mushrooms
• Instant Pot Parsnips
• Instant Pot Rutabaga (Swede)
• Instant Pot Turnips

We also have a more in depth post for you showing you how to steam in the Instant Pot.

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