Practically overnight, Instant Pots have completely revolutionized the way busy people eat. Before, if you wanted to enjoy something like beef stew or carnitas tacos during the week, you'd have to plan dinner far in advance. Slow-cookers are a great way to make those kinds of recipes with little hassle, but they don't really cut down the cook time—if you don't remember to put dinner into your slow-cooker in the morning, you're out of luck. Now, if you forget to get your slow-cooker going, you can just use an Instant Pot to make whatever you want instead.

The Instant Pot has many talents, one being that it can make slow-cooked dishes in a fraction of the time.

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Along with its many other functions—like yogurt and rice making—the gadget is a pressure-cooker. Using the pressure-cook setting, you can make recipes that normally take hours in way, way less time. Beef stew might need 4 hours on a stovetop (or 8 in a slow-cooker!), but it only needs less than an hour in an Instant Pot, no joke.

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These 15 Instant Pot recipes are filling, delicious, and all under 500 calories. To be clear, you don't need to count calories to be healthy, and some people are better off ignoring calories altogether. Also keep in mind that these serving sizes are just suggestions. No matter what, the fact that these recipes are both easy to throw together and packed with flavor means they're satisfying in every way.