Instant Pot Not Syracuse Salt Potatoes

Easy Instant Pot Not Syracuse Salt Potatoes: A simple, naturally gluten free side dish recipe that goes with just about anything. Creamy, buttery, cheesy potatoes from your electric pressure cooker — what’s not to like, really?

I haven’t posted a lot of side dishes on here lately, but it’s really not because we don’t eat them! It’s just that I have so much fun experimenting with the mains that I don’t always think to write these up, too.

So in today’s Sunday Scratchups (your weekly recipe from scratch around sales & affordable ingredients), let’s focus in on side dishes with an easy Instant Pot potatoes recipe. I make this pretty often using these awesome bags of little potatoes from ALDI (and always, always watch for these to go on sale): Instant Pot Not Syracuse Salt Potatoes.

Weird name, right? But way back when, shortly after I picked up my Instant Pot, I cooked up a batch of Syracuse Salt Potatoes from the recipe here. They were good, but… dare I say… they were also a little too salty. So over time I’ve modified the idea to our own tastes — much less salt here, a little more cooking time there, and just a little Parmesan to round things out — and have developed it into a Not Syracuse Salt Potatoes pressure cooker recipe that the whole family loves.

Here’s how to make potatoes in the Instant Pot

As you can see, Middle School Guy and I enjoyed our little potatoes earlier today as part of a filling Sunday brunch with bacon & eggs (his request!). They make an equally delicious dinner side, though, especially when paired with a green veggie like spinach or broccoli. These cute little potatoes are still salty, and they’re still creamy, but here’s how we like to cook them up.

Instant Pot Not Syracuse Salt Potatoes

Ingredients

24 oz bag little potatoes (I like to use medley)
1 Tbsp table salt
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp shredded or shaved Parmesan
Fresh parsley to garnish (optional)

Directions

Place potatoes directly in the bottom of the Instant Pot. (Halve any that are markedly larger than the others.)

Add just enough water to cover the potatoes.

Add 1 Tbsp table salt.

Close lid and turn valve to sealing.

Cook potatoes on manual high pressure for 3 minutes.

Once the Instant Pot beeps, allow it to natural release for 10 minutes, then turn the valve to release the pressure the rest of the way.

Pour potatoes into a colander to drain, then immediately return them to the pot (because why dirty another dish?).

Gently stir in the butter and Parmesan until melted onto the potatoes, then dole these out straight from the pot onto people’s plates and enjoy.

Optional: Garnish with chopped fresh parsley. (I have it growing in my garden, so threw some on today.)

Note: The total cooking time here includes the time for the Instant Pot to come to pressure and the natural release time. When you’re pressure cooking, three minutes is not actually three minutes. 

Easy Instant Pot Potatoes for all!

That’s it! Whether you’re enjoying yours with bacon & eggs for brunch, or alongside chicken and spinach for dinner, these easy Instant Pot potatoes make for a simple little side dish that goes with just about anything — and, they’re naturally gluten free. Creamy, buttery, cheesy potatoes from your electric pressure cooker! What’s not to like, really?

And how about these handy oven gloves?

Out of all the accoutrements you can pick up for the Instant Pot, my oven gloves most often come in handy. These allow you to handle hot items with much more flexibility and precision than with oven mitts, so I always use them when handling the hot inner pot — especially, say, when removing the pot to drain potatoes.

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These easy Instant Pot potatoes make for a simple little side dish that goes with just about anything, and they're naturally gluten free. Creamy, buttery, cheesy potatoes -- what's not to like, really?

Course side, Side Dish

Keyword instant pot, potatoes, pressure cooker, syracuse salt potatoes

Total Time 35 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 24 oz bag little potatoes I like to use medley
• 1 Tbsp table salt
• 1 Tbsp butter
• 1 Tbsp shredded or shaved Parmesan
• Fresh parsley to garnish optional

Instructions

• Place potatoes directly in the bottom of the Instant Pot. (Halve any that are markedly larger than the others.)
• Add just enough water to cover the potatoes.
• Add 1 Tbsp table salt.
• Close lid and turn valve to sealing.
• Cook potatoes on manual high pressure for 3 minutes.
• Once the Instant Pot beeps, allow it to natural release for 10 minutes, then turn the valve to release the pressure the rest of the way.
• Pour potatoes into a colander to drain, then immediately return them to the pot (because why dirty another dish?).
• Gently stir in the butter and Parmesan until melted onto the potatoes, then dole these out straight from the pot onto people's plates and enjoy.
• Optional: Garnish with chopped fresh parsley. (I have it growing in my garden, so threw some on today.)

Notes

The total cooking time here includes the time for the Instant Pot to come to pressure and the natural release time. When you're pressure cooking, three minutes is not actually three minutes.

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