 Welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today I am making four pot-in-pot instant pot recipes. Now if you don't know what that is, you'll want to stick around. Now if you are new to the channel, welcome. My name is Kristen and every Monday I share an instant pot recipe with you. But today I'm going to share four with you and these are called pot-in-pot recipes. Now pot-in-pot cooking is so fun because anything that you cook in your oven, you can pretty much cook in your instant pot if you have another pot. Now I'm going to be using my springform pan and my double stack eco-vana pans in these recipes. You can also use like a normal glass bowl if you're going to cook a little bit of rice or anything like that. Now pot-in-pot cooking can be a little intimidating but if you watch closely you'll see how easy it is. Now these recipes that I'm sharing are my most favorite pot-in-pot recipes. So if you guys are ready, let's get cooking. Now the first instant pot recipe I'm making is instant pot lasagna. This is a vegetable lasagna. It's super easy to make and it tastes amazing. All right we're just going to start with our springform pan. Like I said before, this is the three inch by the six inch. So you can get it a little bit bigger the seven inch but I'm using the six inch today. All right we're going to start with one egg. Then I'm going to add one cup of ricotta cheese. Then when you're done adding the ricotta you're going to add your spices. So I have a half teaspoon of each one of these. We have salt, pepper, oregano, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. Then you're just going to dump those all in. Next we're going to add one cup of mozzarella cheese. Then you're going to mix everything until it's well combined. All right when it's all mixed together you're going to set that aside and pull out your springform pan. Now I am using oven ready lasagna noodles. So I don't have to boil them. It makes it a lot easier. So I'm going to kind of measure and then break them so they'll fit right into my pan. Now the noodles do not have to be pretty. What you're trying to do is just cover up the bottom of the springform pan. The best you can. So if you notice I am using little pieces and it's okay because it will cook together. All right so I'm just adding a few more noodles on and now I am ready to put half of my cheesy ricotta mixture in there. Then you're just going to spread it around the best you can. Now I'm just going to take a handful of spinach leaves and just kind of tear them up and put them right on top of the cheese. Again it's lasagna so it doesn't have to be pretty. Next I have a 24 ounce jar of just traditional spaghetti sauce. You can use whatever sauce you like in your lasagna. Then just spread the sauce around right over the spinach. Now you're just going to repeat your layers. So you're going to add your noodles again and like I said before they don't have to be perfect because they will all cook together. Next you're going to add the rest of the cheese mixture right on top of the noodles. Then just spread it all around. Now we're ready for the spinach again so I just grabbed another little handful and I'm just ripping it up into pieces so it will lay as flat as I can get it. And again you're going to add a half of a cup of your spaghetti sauce or whatever sauce you love on top of your spinach leaves and just spread it around again. Now this is the last layer of noodles so again I'm going to try and measure them so they'll fit perfectly into my little pan. Again you're going to add another half cup or so of your sauce, spread it around and now for my most favorite part the cheese. So I added about a half a cup to a cup. I like a lot of cheese so I added about a cup. Now once you're done with that you're going to take a piece of foil and put it right on top of your springform pan. Now my instant pot came with a steam rack and so that's what I'm going to use today to cook my lasagna. I know there are a lot of other things you can use for your instant pot but this came with mine so we're just going to make it easy. All right so now I'm just adding one cup of water because you need water for it to pressurize. Then I'm going to put my pan right on top. Then you're going to put your lid on, close it and make sure that your thing is turned to sealing not venting you want to on sealing. Then on your instant pot you're going to push manual and go up to 24 minutes. Then when it's done you're going to let it release on its own so you're not going to put it on venting for 15 minutes. So now I'm preheating my oven to 450 degrees. Take the foil off of your lasagna, put it in and watch it for about two to three minutes until it's nice and golden brown on top. Then you can pull it out. I would let it sit for a few minutes before eating it so it will stay together a little bit better. So recipe number two is my chocolate poke cake. Now when you're making cake in the instant pot I can promise you you won't have dry cake on your hands ever. So this chocolate poke cake you can put all kinds of stuff on it. I decided to chop up some snickers. Now I'm going to be using the springform pan for this one. All right so I'm going to take a normal box chocolate cake and just dump it in a bowl. You're going to follow the directions on the back of your cake mix. So this one has one and a fourth cup water, three eggs, and a half cup of oil. Now if your directions don't match mine on your cakes mix it will be just fine. Just follow the directions on your cake mix. Now you're going to go ahead and spray your springform pan with some cooking spray so your cake won't stick. Then pour your batter right into it. Now you want to leave about a half an inch at the top because it will bake up a little bit. Next cover your cake with foil. Now this is an important part because you don't want a soggy cake so I'm going to do two layers of foil. Now as you put on your foil make sure you seal it up the best that you can. Now it's not going to be perfect but that's okay. So now I have my instant pot I'm going to add my trivet to the bottom of it and add about a cup of water. Then go ahead and put your pan right inside. I'm going to close your lid, make sure the knob is on ceiling always, and now you can do pressure cook or if you have a manual button it's the same thing and you're going to go all the way up to 45 minutes. About seven seconds after you push that your machine is going to say on that's a good thing it's going to start pressurizing and then we'll start counting down. All right so I let it sit in there for about four minutes and then I did the knob to venting to let it do a quick release. Once all the pressure's out you can go ahead and take the lid off of your instant pot and your cake should be all the way done. I'm going to take my new favorite clamp and pull it right out of the instant pot. So go ahead and take the foil off of your cake very carefully it's going to be a little bit hot but you're going to want your cake hot for this next part. Now it's okay if your foil sticks to the top a little bit you could spray it with Pam so it won't stick but this is the bottom of our cake so it really doesn't matter that much. All right so now I'm poking holes in my cake. Now this cake is really thick I should have done a knife and gone all the way to the bottom but because I'm using a fork we're just doing the top today. Now for my favorite part we are adding a half cup of caramel on top of the cake. Now this is just the caramel that you can find like by the ice cream or the chocolate syrup area it's that kind of caramel or caramel whatever you call it don't be mad at me. Now you want to do a generous amount so I did about a half a cup you can do more if you think that's too much go ahead and do less but you want to do this while it's hot so the caramel will seep down into the cake. Now you can eat it right now with some ice cream it would be delicious but I'm going to show you what I'm going to do. So I put this in the fridge overnight I covered it back up and now I'm just going around the edges so it will pull out pretty quick putting a plate on the bottom flipping it over and then popping open my springform pan. Now because I sprayed it with non-stick cooking spray the springform pan comes off so easily and so does the top well the bottom. All right I like to add toppings on top of my cake so this is a Snickers bar you could use milky ways twix Reese's peanut butter cups whatever topping you want. Next I'm just going to put it on top cool whip I know there's cool up haters out there that's fine you can use real whipping cream or a frosting even if you want to so I just put some cool whip all over the top then kind of clean up the edges a little bit add a little bit more caramel just for a cute drizzle there's not a lot of flavor with that but it looks good then I'm just going to add the Snickers that I cut up right on top so I'm going to call this my Snickers poke cake. Now cooking cake in the Instant Pot makes it so moist and delicious you're going to die when you try this especially when you put the caramel in it you can see how the caramel's gone down into each bite recipe number three I am making meatloaf and potatoes at the same time I like to use ground turkey for this recipe but you can use ground beef my grandma would use ground beef all right we're going to add one fourth cup of ketchup I'm just kind of guessing there I like to add garlic salt you can add normal salt and then also some pepper this is just to give it a little bit of flavoring next on top I'm going to add two eggs right into the bowl now the recipe that I am using is my grandma's she calls for a whole onion I didn't love that much onion so I'm going to cut it down to a half an onion next time and then you're going to add one cup of oats old-fashioned oats then on top of that you're going to add one tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce or Worcestershire or however your family says it it's that sauce one tablespoon and then the last ingredient is tomato soup so I'm only going to add about half the can of tomato soup here now my grandma used her special trick here and it's she used her hands to mix everything together if you use beaters of some sort it will mix it a little too much together so using your hand is the perfect way to get the perfect texture all right now that everything's ready we're going to put stuff in the pot so my potatoes are going on the very bottom of my pot and I have about oh 10 small ones or you can do six or seven large ones so I have two different kinds just because I had different potatoes in my house just using the rest of them then I'm going to put my little rack right over top if you don't have a rack that's okay you could put it your pan right on top of the potatoes but the rack seems to help it a little more so these are the ecovanna pans that I use I'll put a link the description they are amazing I use them all the time now you want to make sure that it's just below the fill line so your lid will actually go on so now that I all my meat mixture is ready I'm going to pour it right in to my ecovanna pan now if I would film this again I would add my meatloaf on the outside of the pot just in case it did fall down the sides I don't want it touching my potatoes but thankfully it didn't fall apart and it stayed all into that pan so now I'm just spreading it out even so it will cook evenly all right now that that's ready to go I'm going to take the rest of my tomato soup and I used way too much I should have done half of it but that's okay I'm going to add a little ketchup to make up for my tomato sauce then you're going to do another tablespoon of worcestershire sauce and then one tablespoon of brown sugar now the recipe calls for two tablespoons but I just like one tablespoon I don't like it as sweet so now you're just going to mix this up really really good and you're going to pour it right on top of your meatloaf and go ahead and spread it around just as evenly as you possibly can get it now you don't want to skip this step because the sauce on top makes it taste so good so now it is time to cook the meatloaf so I'm going to put my lid the ecovanna lid on first and then I'm going to put my instant pot lid on so after you put it on make sure it's sealed tight you want the knob turned to sealing not venting and I'm going to cook it on manual now in the ecovanna pot you can do it for 25 minutes if you're doing a loaf pan or something bigger so it's thicker you want 30 minutes all right when it's done so the L will appear meaning it's going to start counting up um I did a quick release that means I turned my knob quickly so I could get all the pressure out and I'm going to take my lid right off now I wish you can be here to smell this because it smells so good so I always do the check I'm checking in the middle of my meatloaf make sure it's all cooked through if it's not go ahead and put it back into your instant pot and do it for as many minutes as you think it could be two minutes it could be 10 minutes it really depends on how thick your meatloaf is and even what kind of meat you have so my potatoes on the bottom don't forget about those those are done now too so I took my metal rack out I'm just going to drain the water out so I can put the liquid in I want to add so I'm adding three tablespoons of butter and then about four tablespoons or so of milk I'm just guessing here and then I just like to add a little bit of salt and pepper and go ahead and smash it now my potato masher was being used by my daughter so I'm doing my chop and stir utensil which worked just as good all right my potatoes are done you can use beaters to make these even creamier but I like them thick all right I hope you really like my instant pot meatloaf and mashed potatoes now don't worry I have two printable recipes of these for you one is the instant pot version the other one is the oven versions the fourth recipe I'm sharing with you is apple dump cake it's so easy I like to push start while we're eating dinner and dessert is already when dinner is done so first I'm going to start with a little pan that will fit right inside my instant pot you can use a springform pan you can use a glass bowl even if you wanted to so then I'm going to add a 20 ounce can of apple pie filling and you're going to dump it just right into the bottom of your pan after that you're going to spread it around the best you can then on top of that you're going to add two cups of yellow cake mix you can also add white cake mix or even a spice cake mix would be delicious then just pat it all around now you don't want to soak it into the apple but you're going to press it down pretty even someone who put the butter on top it won't spread all in one corner okay so I have four tablespoons of butter here that I'm going to spread around the best that I can you don't want to be mixing it in your cake mix it will cook I promise you're just going to spread it so now I'm going to add one cup of water inside of my instant pot and if you notice my little trivet thing I don't want my bowl to sit right into the water so it's going to sit right on top of that and that is all you have to do so now you're just going to take the lid put it on make sure that it's on sealing and not venting there we go sealing and you're going to cook it on manual for 25 minutes once it's done you're going to push it over to venting because we're going to do a quick release with this one then when it's all done releasing its pressure you can take the lid off and it smells amazing once the steam kind of goes away then you can pull it right out now I love to make this right as we're eating dinner and so it's all ready to go when dinner is done I love to add a little bit ice cream on top or you can add whatever you like to put on your apple dumb cake also known as apple cobbler now if you're new to the instant pot and you need a little bit of help I specifically put these two videos up there just for you all right guys I'll see you next Monday bye