The Instant Kitchen Meal Prep Cookbook: Plan and Cook Ahead for Fast, Family-Friendly Meals Using Your Pressure Cooker and Air Fryer

 

The Instant Kitchen Meal Prep Cookbook is a tutorial and recipe guide for meal-prep with recipes developed by Coco Morante. Released 30th Dec 2025 by HarperCollins on their Harvest imprint, it's 256 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. 

The author utilizes the special strengths of the kitchen besties: pressure cooker and air fryer to make meal prep more efficient and easier with special emphasis on versatile meal-prep and portion planning. 

This book is well organized. The first section covers the introduction, definitions and concepts involved in meal prep, along with very basic explanations for how to build up a versatile larder. There are also lists of staples with quantities to have on hand for maximum efficiency and how to prep and use them.

The author has provided 10 weeks of sample meal prep menus with mix and match options which are balanced, nutritious, and efficient. There's also a good cross referenced index with ingredients included as well as some extra resources such as conversion charts and cooking info for various foods with times and setting included.  

The recipes are appealing and well written. About 20% (rough estimate) are accompanied by one or more photos. Ingredient measurements are supplied in imperial (American) units only.  The nutritional information is not included.  Extra tips or recipe alternatives are listed in sidebars with the recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly straightforward and are made with easily sourced ingredients. Many are very simple, none of them are overly complex.

This is a beautifully presented very well organized book. I would definitely recommend it to any of my friends who are looking to make their food prep even more efficient. Once a week cooking can be made family friendly, and the author has included mix-and-match recipes so that these meals can be incorporated into a family style meal environment. These would also work very well for singles or for one person (or whole family); it's very versatile.

Four and a half stars. I also love the author's irreverent, chatty, friendly voice which comes through very clearly in the text.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.