Instant Pot Healthy Roots Chili - Dump and Go Dinner
Cooked to tender perfection our Healthy Roots Chili boasts a bounty of earthy produce. Brimming with savory ground beef and chunks of carrot and sweet potato in a beet and pumpkin puree fortified broth this wintery dish brings a comforting satisfaction to your dinner table.
Ingredients
- 10 ounces Sliced Beets, Canned
- 1 cup cook Ground Beef
- 1 ⅓ cups dice Carrot
- 1 ⅓ cups peel and dice Sweet Potato
- 10 ⅔ ounces Pumpkin, Canned
- 1 teaspoon Rosemary, Dried
- 1 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 2 teaspoons Basil, Dried
- ⅔ teaspoons Cinnamon
- 13 ⅓ fluid ounces Beef Bone Broth/Stock
- 1 ⅓ tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Place beets into food processor and process until smooth.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Prep from frozen
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- **Due to the nature of pressure cooking there is always room for inconsistency. The times given here are based on 4 servings fresh. If you are using more servings you may need to increase your cooking time.**
- Place beets into food processor and process until smooth.
- Add pureed beets, and all other ingredients into inner pot.
- Lock cover into place and seal steam nozzle.
- Cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.
- Naturally release pressure.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 4 Servings
- Serving Size
- about 1 cup Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 226
- Total Fat
- 8g
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 49mg
- Sodium
- 1016mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 19g
- Fiber
- 3g
- Sugar
- 10g
- Protein
- 18g
- WW Freestyle
- 4
13 Comments
Join the discussionQuick question – do you put both containers in the IP at the same time? Do I need to worry if the ice hasn’t thawed to generate a lot of liquid at the end of the 5 minutes? Do I add extra liquid?
Made this tonight! Couldn’t figure out how to get the double disposable containers to work, so I just made it fresh. Soooooooooo good. Felt it needed an extra TB of apple cider vinegar and an extra teaspoon of salt. Everyone loved it!
This really good and a great way to hide veggies! I used ground turkey and I didn’t have sweet potato or rosemary at home so I left them out. It still was amazing and I’ll be making it again.
Has anyone tried this from frozen? My experience with freezing any recipe that contains beets is that the beet flavor permeates everything and overpowers the entire dish when it is cooked or reheated. For that reason, I’m inclined to bag the beets separately when freezing, but would like to hear if anyone else has had good success without doing that.
I also made this from frozen – last night. It was delicious, and the smell while it was cooking made me RAVENOUS. Cooked exactly as directed. Well, maybe we added an extra minute of sauté time and let it NPR for 2 minutes (by the time we could get back to the IP after the timer went off). ? Leftovers for lunch today were just as tasty!!!
I made it from frozen according to the recipe and everyone likes it, even those who don’t usually like beets.
That’s so great Michelle! ?
Hi I made this as an instapot recipe and loved it. I’m part of a slow cooker meal share group and would love to use this. How do you think this would translate as a slow cooker meal?
We’re so glad you liked it, Jen! And double thanks for wanting to share it! We actually have a slow cooker version of this recipe that you can share with them! You can find it here! >> https://onceamonthmeals.com/recipes/healthy-roots-chili/
Do you drain the juice from the beets or puree with the juice?
Since this is a soup Judy, we would recommend that you don’t drain the beets. Hope this helps!
Hi, I’ve made this a few times & love it, but have questions. I’ve tried freezing in a gallon bag & that didn’t work well because the bag would crinkle and parts would get stuck in between (I even tried shaping using a bowl to place the bag in). So I bought the round containers and now I am having an issue getting the frozen contents out. Any suggestions on how to easily get the contents out of the round container? Would it mess with the flavor or cooking times if I thawed first? Thx!
Great questions, Donna! You can run warm water over the edges where they have ‘folded’ and around the edges to help release the meal. You do not want to do this to fully thaw the meal as that would not be advisable for safe thawing. Alternatively, you can also thaw this meal completely and properly in the fridge overnight and it will still cook well for you. 🙂
You might also enjoy this article just on containers: https://onceamonthmeals.com/blog/series/get-started/freezing-containers/