Best Electric Pressure Cookers for Making Nutritious Meals in the UK

If you love that crispy golden crust and you hate spending too much time cooking, opt for this multifunctional pressure cooker by Ninja. In addition to a cooking pot, the unit is equipped with a special basket for cooking crispy french fries and meat. Moreover, it has two lids specially designed to help you prepare a variety of mouth-watering meals for every day and for special occasions. The pressure lid will allow you to steam, pressure cook, slow cook, sear and sauté your ingredients. The crisping lid is perfect for baking, roasting, air crisping, and grilling. Moreover, you can use both lids while cooking one meal, tenderizing it by pressure cooking at first, and then crisping it up to a golden crust.

The purchase includes a Cook & Crisp™ basket that you can use for steaming and air frying (along with the included detachable diffuser), and a reversible rack that, in addition to the above-mentioned cooking methods, you can also use for grilling.

There is also a number of accessories that you can buy additionally to cook even more mouth-watering meals with ease - a Cook & Crisp™ layered insert, a roasting rack insert, a multi-purpose pan, a loaf pan, a dehydrating rack, and a crisper pan.

With more than 30,000 reviews (mostly with 5-star rating) on Amazon, the Instant Pot DUO80 is an absolute bestseller in the US. Not without a reason. It's affordable, multi-functional, and durable - the main qualities people usually look for in this type of kitchen appliances.

For less than £90, you get a stunning 7-in-1 cooker that combines a pressure cooker, slow cooker, steamer, rice cooker, yoghurt maker, a sauté/browning maker, and warmer in one neat casing, which makes it one of the leaders in terms of cooking options.

It comes with 14 built-in smart programs for dishes like soups, porridge, poultry, rice, bean, and many others. All the controls are simple and intuitive - there is a large panel with an LCD screen on the front of the unit. The same control panel also allows you to choose one of three temp settings (Less, Normal, and More) in Sauté and Slow Cook modes to provide you with greater flexibility.

The Instant Pot in question has a 3-ply bottom that ensures an even heat distribution, while the sealed lid keeps the steam inside preserving the dish nutrients and appetizing aromas. Dual pressure option will let you choose a high-pressure setting to reduce cooking time up to 70% or a low-pressure setting for preparing delicate foods.

Owing to the latest 3rd generation technology, the microprocessor monitors the pressure, temperature, as well as adjusts the heating intensity in each setting extremely precisely. So, you can rest assured knowing that you'll get the desired results every time.

What makes this programmable pressure cooker an irreplaceable helper in any modern kitchen is that you can preset the cooking start time and therefore, have your meals ready when you are ready to eat them. Whether you put your ingredients into the unit to have them slow-cooked when you return from work, or you pressure cook them to have your dinner ready up to 70% faster than when using traditional cooking methods, you will save lots of time on your kitchen chores. For example, it will just take 30 minutes to make a whole roast chicken and 8 minutes to make a vegetable risotto.

More importantly, you do not need to compromise taste: featuring multiple cooking modes, this appliance will allow you to cook healthy and flavoursome meals. The unit offers pressure cooking, slow cooking, steaming, and browning/sautéing modes. In other words, you can brown meat or sauté veggies before pressure cooking or slow cooking them to perfection. Just like with most units of a kind, the appliance will activate a keep warm mode when your dish is ready, so you can rest assured it will retain the perfect temperature until you are ready to eat.

Provided with all the necessary safety features, the pressure cooker has an ergonomic large handle for transporting the unit.

The main function of a multi-cooker is preparing delicious and nutritious meals in minimum time and with minimum effort. Let's look at one more unit that handles this task brilliantly.

Using pressurised steam, the Tefal CY505E40 makes cooking times faster while locking in the flavour and allowing you to preserve more vitamins compared to conventional cooking methods. This innovative model can be used for pressure cooking, steaming, browning, simmering, slow cooking, and even baking. In the box, you will find a booklet with 30 mouth-watering recipes that will inspire you to start making new dishes straight away.

The appliance has both a delayed start (from 2 to 24 hours) and a keep-warm function (up to 24 hours) so you can have your meals straight after cooking or keep them warm until all your family members are home and ready to eat. 

One more welcome feature of this compact model is the large 6 L cooking bowl, allowing you to use the item for making family meals. New parents will appreciate the Baby food mode that will help you to quickly and easily prepare healthy and nutritious treats for your little one. To ensure the users' safety, the ergonomic hinged lid remains sealed during cooking.

Offering a competitive cooking capacity, this pressure cooker by ANSIO can be used for preparing a variety of lip-smacking dishes for your family and friends. Besides, this energy-efficient pressure cooker will help to cut down on your electricity bills, which is especially important if you cook a lot. With that, the appliance is easy to use and maintain thanks to a well-thought-out design and a non-stick inner pot.

Like most modern pressure cookers, the item has an ergonomic control panel with an LCD screen and touch-sensitive buttons, allowing you to select one of the 15 preset programmes (Meat, Poultry, Vegetables, Steam, Sauté, Slow Cook, White Rice, Brown Rice, Beans, Broth, Curry, Soup, Multigrain, Congee, Yoghurt) or adjust the cooking process manually. For example, you can adjust the cooking temperature and time, and even the pressure level (low, medium, or high). You can also use the machine's delay timer if you want the dish to be cooked when you come home, and a keep-warm function to keep it warm till dinner.

Cooked with the ANSIO pressure cooker, even common everyday meals will taste more delicious; the appliance will help you to make fluffy and soft rice, tender juicy meat, and flavoursome soup. And, of course, the unit is a must-have for healthy eaters as it allows for steaming and slow-cooking foods and preparing natural yoghurt for your morning snack.