The vibrant flavors of Mexican food are celebrated in this enticing collection of 75 fresh and authentic recipes for soups, tacos, burritos, tamales, beans, salsas, desserts, all ready in minutes, thanks to the Instant Pot’s revolutionary cooking power.
The best-selling Instant Pot—an electric, programmable pressure cooker—has quickly become one of the most popular kitchen appliances on the market for its hands-off and speedy-fast cooking abilities. The Essential Mexican Instant Pot Cookbook harnesses this revolutionary techonology to create straightforward, streamlined, and delicious recipes for Mexican favorites such as hearty posole soup, sizzling steak fajitas, tender carnitas tacos, cheesy enchiladas, stuffed tamales, classic refried beans, salsas galore, flan, churro bread pudding, and much more.
This complete guide to Mexican cooking with your Instant Pot is authored by Chef Deborah Schneider, a James Beard Award-nominated author and chef/owner of six Mexican restaurants, and includes all of her best tips and tricks, as well as the authentic dishes you’ll want to make over and over again.
DEBORAH SCHNEIDER was dubbed “the reigning queen of San Diego chefs” by Bon Appétit. She is the author of eight cookbooks, including the James Beard-nominated Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta; The Mexican Slow Cooker; Salsas and Moles; and ¡Baja! Cooking on the Edge, which was one of Food & Wine’s Best of the Best of 2006.
Is it one can evaporated milk and one can sweetened evaporated milk?
Yes, exactly.
What do you when cooked?? Take out of pan and into frige? Leave in pan and fridge? Turn it upside down ??
Is it 1 can of condense milk and 1 can of sweetened evaporate milk?
It is one can regular condensed milk and 1 sweetened.
My question is, after removing from insta pot, pulling foil off, how long do you wait to place on serving plate?
After removing from the Instant Pot, let it cool completely. Then refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Best if left overnight.
Instructions on pressure level way too vague…my flan exploded all over my instant pot. Waste of time on my Thanksgiving morning.
This is by far one of the best tasting flan.
Didn’t work, it exploded and ended with a big mess all over the pot.
Instrutions mention can of evaporated milk, and that’s NOT in the ingredients ljst?
Please explain!
For pressure cook, do you use low pressure level or high pressure level? Thank you.
Hi Arshsky786,
Most recipes use High Pressure. If find a recipe that does not mention a pressure level it should was cooked at High Pressure as it is the default pressure level. Recipes that use Low pressure will mention to set to low pressure.
Is it ok to use a 7-inch springform pan?
Please clarify; you seem to say two different things:
How much sweetened condensed milk – in ounces or milliliters or grams?
How much evaporated milk – in ounces or milliliters?
Condensed milk is sold by WEIGHT – 14 oz = 397 grams.
Evaporated is sold by VOLUME – 12 fluid oz. = 354 mL
1. Avilaja2: September 11, 2018 Is it one can evaporated milk and one can sweetened evaporated milk?
Instant Pot: September 12, 2018 Yes, exactly.
2. SFYiu: September 19, 2018 Is it 1 can of condense milk and 1 can of sweetened evaporate milk?
Instant Pot: September 19, 2018 It is one can regular condensed milk and 1 sweetened.
Tried this recipe last night and its the best flan I’ve had and cooking it in the instant pot was a snap! Must try! Thank you!
It is 1 can evaporated milk and 1 can condensed milk. I’ve been making flan in a double boiler (baño de Maria) for 40 years. It’s definitely not double condensed. Anyway, thanks for the instructions for the Instant Pot. Looking forward to cutting my cooking time in half.
After you cook the flan for 15 minutes and quick release, should the flan be set? It was still liquid in the center, so I put it in for more minutes.
It exploaded all over the inside of the pot. It was not fluffy/custardy. Recipe needs to say 1 can sweetened condensed milk and 1 can evaporated milk. Also needs to say to let completely cool and put in fridge for 3+ hrs. It may be better if you do the cooling
It is delicious ! I would like to get the caramel on top of the flan, instead of the bottom of the pan. What should I do differently?
Cookeed ot today , just perfect, woth these changes : so far I donot get along with creamcheese , so replaced with good fat , yes one small avocado, and than coocked for 1:20 hr on midium Pressure.
Yummy!!
Deliciuos!!
We made this per directions, and cut into it and the center bleed out all over the serving platter. It has a great taste but what would be the changes in cooking time to complete the next one we make?
Flip it over like an upside down cake.
Can i make this in a 6 inch pan ?
I just used my instapot for the first time on this recipe. It exploded as other people have said. There was a lot of steam coming out during the cooking time. When I opened the lid there was a lot of liquid on top of the foil that went into the cake pan as I was taking it off.
We’re going to let it cool and then refrigerate to see what we have. I am not too hopeful. What did I do wrong?
Hi Jane,
If steam was coming out of the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker then it did not seal. If you are using a different sized cake pan you may have to increase the cooking time. It will also set in the fridge after cooling down.
When do you flip it over–after 3 hours of refrigeration?