Weekends and potatoes are made for each other in Indian homes. Yes, today I’m making instant pot baby potatoes.
You will fall in love with this yummy baby potatoes in the instant pot. During my shopping, I couldn’t resist buying these mini potatoes so I made sure this weekend I want to make some crunchy outside and soft inside Indian potato curry.
Instant pot steamed potatoes option is the best when you want to make perfect potato curry. These small potatoes instant pot cooked to the perfection as I wanted.
These instant pot baby potatoes are steamed for 5 minutes to get the crisp outer layer when shallow fried in cast iron pan and if you are looking for the instant pot mashed potatoes please use this recipe setting.
You have to try this super easy, zero monitoring instant pot mini potatoes. I have used a food network steamer that has mini partitions to steam more than one at a time. Check out my post on the instant pot steamer basket
You can use any instant pot steamer basket to make this baby potatoes in instant pot.Cooking directly on the inner pot makes the potatoes soggy at times or a burnt bottom to avoid that i use instant pot steamer basket to make this potato curry.
step by step instant pot baby potatoes recipe
instant pot steamed potatoes
Turn on the instant pot and add around one cup of water to the inner pot
Now place the trivet and top of it place the stainless steel steamer basket in instant pot pressure cooker
Add the baby potatoes in the steamer basket
close the lid and set steam ,high ,5 minutes.If you have old type of instant pot dont forget to turn the venting knob to sealing position.
This gives you a hard outside and soft inside potatoes with these settings. If you want creamier and super-soft baby potatoes then steam for 15 minutes and do a natural release.
5 minutes instant pot baby potatoes
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs baby potato
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder optional
Instructions
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Turn on the instant pot and add around one cup of water to the inner pot
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Now place the trivet and top of it place the stainless steel steamer basket in instant pot pressure cooker
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Add the baby potatoes in the steamer basket
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Close the lid and set steam ,high ,5 minutes.If you have old type of instant pot dont forget to turn the venting knob to sealing position.
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This gives you a hard outside and soft inside potatoes with these settings. If you want creamier and super-soft baby potatoes then steam for 15 minutes and do a natural release.
Recipe Notes
This is the small potatoes instant pot curry i made using instant pot steamed potatoes.If you want the above easy peasy Indian potato curry instant pot version please leave in comments below.
This is the small potatoes instant pot curry i made using instant pot steamed potatoes.If you want the above easy peasy Indian potato curry instant pot version please leave in comments below.
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