21 Easy Instant Pot Soups With Simmered-All-Day Flavor

There's nothing more comforting on a chilly night than a steamy bowl of homemade soup. When you're short on time but still craving the slow-cooked flavor of something made from scratch, reach for your multicooker. It can cut down on time and effort—making everything from chicken soup to beef stew a breeze. One of our favorite recipes? This hearty Southern stew that is bascially a one-pot meal. Satisfying chuck roast and mixed veggies swim in a delicious tomato broth that's perked up with just a touch of hot sauce. While it's not as thick as some other stews, it's one recipe that's sure to fill even the hungriest bellies.

An Instant Pot can handle a whole chicken, which is perfect for this comforting soup.

This hearty Pressure Cooker Sausage and Potato Soup from Ree Drummond is a cozy, flavor-packed dish featuring spicy sausage, tender potatoes and a creamy broth—all ready in a flash thanks to the magic of the pressure cooker.

Now you can have a meaty and well-rounded chili with the slow-cooked taste you're craving, ready in just a fraction of the time.

A multi-cooker gives this hearty chili that cooked-all-day flavor and texture in a fraction of the time. A generous amount of spices and a dab of canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce deliver a balanced, smoky kick. Serve the chili with all the usual toppings--a squeeze of lime juice, fresh cilantro, avocado, Cheddar and sour cream.

Cooking up a generous batch of this creamy, comforting chicken soup with nutty wild rice and lots of vegetables is quick and easy thanks to the Instant Pot®. The pot streamlines the cooking time for whole-grain wild rice and transforms the chicken into juicy, beautifully shredded meat in no time. Plus, there’s only one pot to clean when you’re done. The soup is seasoned with a touch of lemon zest and juice and fresh parsley for an irresistible meal in a bowl.

This isn't your Grandma's beef stew: with a little help from a multi-cooker, this hearty dish is possible — even on your busiest weeknight.

This quick and easy Instant Pot soup gets its smoky flavor from a combination of ancho chili powder and canned chipotles in adobo. We call for just enough to add a mild spiciness to the broth, but you can add more if you want to turn up the heat. Put out the toppings on the table so everyone can customize their own bowl.

Sambar is a delectable and versatile South Indian dal that’s particularly easy to make in an Instant Pot®. The term dal (sometimes spelled dahl) refers to both split peas and lentils and the type of classic stew made from them. For sambar, split pigeon peas are cooked with a medley of vegetables and flavored with tamarind, a unique sambar masala blend and a mustard and curry leaf tadka (a traditional technique of blooming spices in hot ghee). Not only is sambar scrumptiously tangy and flavorful but also filling and satisfying. Cooking dal in a pressure cooker is common, but an Instant Pot® makes it quick to cook both the peas and the vegetables. Sambar is great paired with rice, but it’s also a common accompaniment to a variety of South Indian snacks such as idli, dosa, uttapam and vada. You can also break with tradition and have it as a soup.

Thanks to your Instant Pot (gotta love a slow cooker, pressure cooker and stove-top stand-in, all in one), the beans for this creamy soup don't need to be soaked overnight. And they cook, under pressure, for just 1 hour. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can puree the beans in batches in a regular blender (but take care, they will be hot).

This hearty, piquant chili is just as good on game day as it is a busy weeknight. The fact that it comes together in under an hour (with simmered-all-day-flavor) is just a bonus.

Get the flavor of a slow-simmered squash soup in half the time using your trusty multi-cooker.

Chili is best simmered low and slow, but sometimes you don't have the time. A pressure cooker helps tenderize pork shoulder, a cut of meat that's usually tough, in minutes rather than hours. A mixture of green chiles, cilantro, garlic and lime brighten up this easy and wonderfully speedy.

Craving Mexican food? Skip the tacos and Tex-Mex and make this hearty chicken and hominy soup instead. It comes together easily with the help of your mutli-cooker — and has all of the flavor you're craving.

Beef pho is one of the most beloved dishes in Vietnam, but its famous spice-laced stock can take up to 12 hours to make. By using a multi-cooker, we cut the time down to just over 3 hours — and much of that time is hands-off, making this recipe easier than traditional versions. Don't be nervous about serving the pho with raw sirloin — the hot, steamy stock cooks the beef just enough so that it is meltingly tender.

You can achieve an incredibly flavorful broth for homemade miso soup in minutes, thanks to the Instant Pot! Our version has tender shiitakes, creamy tofu, fresh scallions and touch of mirin. We opted for white miso because of its mild, sweet flavor, but feel free to swap in yellow miso for an earthier broth or red miso for more intensity.

Using an Instant Pot in this recipe is an easy way to create a concentrated, flavorful ramen broth in only a short amount of time. The broth is smoky and slightly spicy, which makes it perfect for slurping up noodles on a week day or night.

A touch of coffee adds depth to this simple but nuanced under-an-hour chili.

You can use a regular stovetop pressure cooker for this recipe if you dno't have an Instant Pot. Just heat the broth and vegetables in the pot over medium heat, then seal the pot and set to pressure according to the manufacturer's instructions.

The beauty of the multi-cooker is that it can make quick work of dishes that usually spend hours simmering away to tender perfection — like this beef stew ready in just over one hour.