Top 5 Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Soups!

It's time to turn on the instant pot or pressure cooker to whip up a big batch of hearty soup! Pressure cookers or instant pots are great for soups as they extract all of the flavours from bones and cut down time to a quarter of the normal time. I've got 5 recipes for you from a deliciously warming Taiwanese beef noodle soup to a zhushed up Pea & Ham Soup to a creation I call Cream of Chicken Noodle Soup (that's two soups in one). Or maybe you feel like whipping up a Bouillabaisse for a special occasion or a Peking duck noodle soup for a weeknight dinner!

1 - Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

This is one of the most comforting and delicious Asian style soups but did you know it's easy to make at home and a total time saver if you have an instant pot or pressure cooker? There's no need to venture out for this wonderful, warming soup!

2 - Cream of Chicken Noodle Soup

I made this soup, which is a cross between a cream of chicken and a chicken noodle soup using two barbecue chicken carcasses (or you can use chicken pieces too!). It's made with chicken and a tasty variety of vegetables so it's a meal in one.

3 - Bouillabaisse

A French bouillabaisse can be intimidating but let the pressure cooker take care of most of that for you! It makes the broth intensely flavoured as it gets all of the flavour from the bones and of course I included a recipe for the rouille toasts too ;)

4 - Pea & Ham Soup

Usually pea and ham soup uses dried split peas but because I am me, I made it a double pea and ham soup also using frozen peas because they offer a different flavour and texture! And now Mr NQN prefers this to the regular kind.

5 - Peking Duck Noodle Soup

This Peking duck noodle soup actually came out of an experiment to see how many meals I could get from one takeaway Peking duck and this was the last of the duck and was made using the carcass plus some sliced duck! Add Chinese greens, noodles and slices of duck and you're done!

So tell me Dear Reader, do you make soups in a pressure cooker or instant pot?

And if you're in the mood for dumplings, give these deliciously plump prawn dumplings with tom yum beurre blanc a try! This exclusive recipe is up on my substack! x