instant pot trivet hacks that will make your life easier.
Here are the 5 quick ways on how to use instant pot trivet
Instant pot trivet how to use
Instapot trivet Hack 1 :
When you want to make something like an Indian dal with some rice at the same time. Just add the lentil of your choice + some vegetables in the inner pot with some water and then place the trivet and place a bowl of rice on top of the trivet and pressure cook at the same time.
In the above picture I’m making lauki (bottle gourd) with some dal by placing the bottle gourd, lentil, salt, and water then I have placed the instapot trivet on top of it.
Now I have placed the rice bowl on top of the instant pot trivet. This instant pot hack will save you so much of time.
Instantpot trivet hack 2 :
Steaming vegetables using the trivet makes it easier and also avoids vegetables getting soggy especially rooted vegetables like potatoes, sweet potato, etc. Sometimes I use the trivet and place the potatoes on top of it to get perfect instant pot potatoes.
Instantpot trivet hack 3 :
This is my favorite trivet I bought on amazon.com. You can use this to make eggs in the instant pot but I’m being a vegetarian I use this for steaming potatoes without touching each other. I will write a recipe soon on how to boil potatoes or steam potatoes using this kind of trivet.
Instantpot trivet hack 4 :
This hack is useful when you want to make a dessert with jaggery (unrefined sugar) and milk. Jaggery and milk always curdle when mixed together. So in this Indian dessert recipe, I kept the chana dal in the inner pot of instant pot and placed the trivet and kept the jaggery with some water to make the dessert. If you want to try this chana dal kheer instant pot click here
Instantpot trivet hack 5
How about warming 2 different food at the time ? Yes you can do that as well.this is my fifth instant pot trivet hack you got to try.
I have my instant pot fried rice in the morning and had some leftover with some gravy. I used the inner pot with instantpot fried rice and the gravy placed on top of the trivet to reheat the food at the same time.
If you have some amazing instant pot hacks and want to share with others please leave in comments below.